Re: VMWARE GSX Port?

2006-02-28 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Scott Long wrote: Ashok Shrestha wrote: VMWARE GSX was released recently for free. [http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/server_beta.html] Is anyone working on a port for this? I've started on it, but I haven't made much

Number of kevents registered in kqueue

2005-12-16 Thread Seán C . Farley
I may have missed it in the man page, but I am unable to find a way to determine how many kevents are currently registered within a kqueue. If there is no method for a count, how about a way to find if a kqueue is empty or not. Besides tracking what events are still within a kqueue, this would

Re: Number of kevents registered in kqueue

2005-12-16 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Seán C. Farley wrote this message on Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 16:09 -0600: I may have missed it in the man page, but I am unable to find a way to determine how many kevents are currently registered within a kqueue. If there is no method for a count

Re: Number of kevents registered in kqueue

2005-12-16 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Václav Haisman wrote: Seán C. Farley wrote: I may have missed it in the man page, but I am unable to find a way to determine how many kevents are currently registered within a kqueue. If there is no method for a count, how about a way to find if a kqueue is empty

Re: Number of kevents registered in kqueue

2005-12-16 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 16), Sen C. Farley said: I may have missed it in the man page, but I am unable to find a way to determine how many kevents are currently registered within a kqueue. If there is no method for a count, how about a way to find if a

Re: VIA 6420 RAID 0 problem

2005-11-21 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Marcin Simonides wrote: I have (had?) two issues, perhaps connected: (I posted a question to freebsd-questions about it some time ago. It contains some additional information: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-November/103991.html) snip The

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Branson Matheson wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:50:43PM +0100,Ivan Voras did mutter: Man, I _so_ hope this is a joke... Agreed. The logo looks like some anime rendering of a sea mine, and the font really doesn't agree with it. Since there has been a plethora of

Re: Vertikal and Horizontal Scroll of (mighty) mice

2005-08-25 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Arne Schwabe wrote: Hi, I just got myself myself a shiny white Mighty Mouse from Apple. I now have the Problem that Wheel if the scrolling to left and right. I fixed this by teaching ums.c to prefer WHEEL over Z but it would be nice to support both wheel and z axis

Re: Converting libfoo.so for linux to freebsd

2005-08-09 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: I have recently purcahsed a device that comes with a .so for linux, but no sources. Is there any way one can take an arbitrary linux .so which appears to have no dependencies to a FreeBSD .so? The binary code is about 20k or so. Alternatively,

Re: Using a logitech mx700 with scrollwheel _and_ thumb buttons

2005-07-10 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Julian Elischer wrote: Joe Schmoe wrote: snip Nope. I reproduced these same settings _exactly_, and they produce the same results. With your settings above, the scroll wheel works fine, and the two thumb buttons each cause the web page to scroll very slightly downward.

Re: To C++ or not to C++

2005-06-24 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Ryan Sommers wrote: Greetings all... I'm about to undertake a major software engineering project and I can't decide between C or C++ and was wondering if I could get some input from the community. As part of this project I'm going to need to make use of at least 2 C

Re: Porting on FreeBSD 53

2005-05-23 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [severely trimmed] [severely trimmed again :)] Now that I've had time to look at it, both problems appear to be related to signals, but that's about as far as it goes. I wouldn't expect any connection unless it's a general signal race

sigsuspend() and nanosleep() bugs

2005-05-20 Thread Seán C . Farley
I have been having problems finding a bug (gnu/77818[1]) when running gdb with any program from zsh. This is when a variable is set within .zshrc from a back-tick command. In my search to find the actual bug I did run into kern/80130[2] since my source tree was dated one day before the fix.

Re: Porting on FreeBSD 53

2005-05-13 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: Seán C. Farley a écrit : On Thu, 12 May 2005, Seán C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: snip 4) wait() API 2 problems, the first is a ECHILD error on a wait call after a fork fork The code is generic for most of unix system

Re: Porting on FreeBSD 53

2005-05-13 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Seán C. Farley wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: or if there is a workarouund ? Reapplying the sigsuspend() before each fork() may work. I meant sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK). Sleep deprivation by an infant destroys the mind. :) Seán -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Porting on FreeBSD 53

2005-05-12 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: snip 4) wait() API 2 problems, the first is a ECHILD error on a wait call after a fork fork The code is generic for most of unix system. Is there any specific problems to manage the fork and wait APIs ? the second problem with calls is a blocking

Re: Porting on FreeBSD 53

2005-05-12 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Seán C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: snip 4) wait() API 2 problems, the first is a ECHILD error on a wait call after a fork fork The code is generic for most of unix system. Is there any specific problems to manage the fork and wait APIs

Re: setenv/unsetenv's known memory leak

2005-02-24 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Seán C. Farley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does this version look? Needlessly complicated. I'd just copy the entire environment into malloc()ed space the first time setenv() or putenv() is called. I like complicated. :) I have written a new

Re: setenv/unsetenv's known memory leak

2005-02-24 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Seán C. Farley wrote: Here are the two versions I have written to stop the memory leak. Old (complex): http://www.farley.org/freebsd/tmp/setenv-1.tar.bz2 New (simple): http://www.farley.org/freebsd/tmp/setenv-2.tar.bz2 Also, you may find an uncompressed view of the two tar

Re: setenv/unsetenv's known memory leak

2005-02-23 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Seán C. Farley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While playing around with setenv(), I noticed that it can leak memory when a program overwrites a variable with a larger value. unsetenv() will just leak memory. All of this is documented in their man pages

setenv/unsetenv's known memory leak

2005-02-22 Thread Seán C . Farley
While playing around with setenv(), I noticed that it can leak memory when a program overwrites a variable with a larger value. unsetenv() will just leak memory. All of this is documented in their man pages. The latest PR on this (two PR's mentioned in it are closed):

Re: Idea about skeleton jail

2005-02-02 Thread Seán C . Farley
I missed the beginning of the thread, but I thought I would point out the rough script (mknulljail.sh) I wrote awhile back that uses nullfs. I also have a update script (fbinst.sh) for FreeBSD that handles jails. http://www.farley.org/?page=software mknulljail.sh is getting old and can be used for

initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2() panic in 5-STABLE

2005-01-28 Thread Seán C . Farley
This is a re-request for help on an occasional panic I have been getting on a 5-STABLE system. The PR URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/75368 Currently, the system is not being used. It will be used to replace my 4-STABLE system once I get the panics to stop. This is the

Re: RFC: OpenBSD's netcat in base or ports?

2005-01-25 Thread Seán C . Farley
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Xin LI wrote: Dear folks, A recent glance at OpenBSD indicates that they have an excellent re-written of nc(1), also known as netcat that is very handy for system administrators. The OpenBSD version of nc is licensed under the BSD License. While there may be some concerns