Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Peter da Silva
Here's the original PR I sent in, and my code: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=6320 The included shell archive has a man page and source code that works, and has been run successfuly on systems as disparate as Xenix-286 and Tru64. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-22 Thread Peter da Silva
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis A. Mamakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed another, smaller IC which had a hole blown out of the epoxy case (which subsequently allowed the smoke to escape. [...] In a "what the hell" move, I powered up the ethernet Netgear Ethernet switch with it's

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-21 Thread Peter da Silva
Tradition counts. GLOBAL isn't quite sendmail. On the other hand, sendmail is easier to extract and isolate (there are no sendmail-specific patches to nvi, for example), and there are several alternative packages (postfix, exim, qmail, smail, etc) that one might want to *replace* sendmail with

Minor numbers in shared libraries.

1999-09-17 Thread Peter da Silva
In a discussion with Nate Williams, I have learned that the reason FreeBSD doesn't use minor numbers with shared libraries because standard ELF doesn't support it. Is this a hard-and-fast unbreakable rule, or is this something that could be implemented if it can be done in a way that's compatible

Re: Minor numbers in shared libraries.

1999-09-17 Thread Peter da Silva
I would also add that you can "fake" a minor number by simple multiplication. You have to assume how many digits you want to allow in minor numbers. For example, if we assume a minor number has no more than 3 digits (allowing the minor numbers to grow to 999) then, M.N can readily be

Minor numbers in shared libraries.

1999-09-17 Thread Peter da Silva
In a discussion with Nate Williams, I have learned that the reason FreeBSD doesn't use minor numbers with shared libraries because standard ELF doesn't support it. Is this a hard-and-fast unbreakable rule, or is this something that could be implemented if it can be done in a way that's compatible

Re: Minor numbers in shared libraries.

1999-09-17 Thread Peter da Silva
I would also add that you can fake a minor number by simple multiplication. You have to assume how many digits you want to allow in minor numbers. For example, if we assume a minor number has no more than 3 digits (allowing the minor numbers to grow to 999) then, M.N can readily be