sgmlformat making release

1999-06-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
I'm tryingeto do a make release via time make release CHROOTDIR=/local/GenRelease BUILDNAME=3.2.0.-rel-wkb RELEASETAG=RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE Making docs... === Extracting for docproj-1.0 No MD5 checksum file. === Patching for docproj-1.0 === Configuring for docproj-1.0 === Installing for

wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-06 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
I have two boxes with ATAPI Zip Drives: Box1: wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy/12.A, removable, intr, iordis wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk) Box2: wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/13.A, removable, intr, iordis wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk)

Re: allocate file blocks contiguously

1999-06-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
For more info about maxcontig, you can refer to the well-known paper of McKusic et al about Fast File System. It is a parameter that is hardware dependent. You can't get performance just by increasing its value. Unfortunately, I don't have on-line version of that paper. --Farshid

Word processor distractions (was Re: Kernel config script:)

1999-06-06 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
I've seen references to people writing Towers of Hanoi in troff, but I don't have a pointer to the actual code. Can't help you there, but here's something for you: /hanoi{/x{{exit}}def /e{exch}def /d{dup}def /l{loop}def /n exch def /m 2 n 1 sub exp cvi def[m{d 0 eq x if d[e d 0{1 add e 2 div

Re: sgmlformat making release

1999-06-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wilko Bulte wi...@yedi.iaf.nl writes: sgmlformat-1.7.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. Attempting to fetch from http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/ports/distfiles/. fetch: reading reply from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu: Operation timed out Attempting to fetch from

a.out behavior

1999-06-06 Thread Marc Tardif
The following code should obviously segfault: #include stdio.h #include syslog.h char buffer[4028]; void main() { int i; for (i=0; i=4028; i++) buffer[i]='A'; syslog(LOG_ERR, buffer); } Now here's the problem: When compiling with gcc file.c, the program

Re: a.out behavior

1999-06-06 Thread Marc Slemko
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Marc Tardif wrote: The following code should obviously segfault: Nope. There is no requirement that code segfault. C does not make any promises that accessing memory that you have not allocated will do anything. #include stdio.h #include syslog.h char buffer[4028];

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problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-06 Thread Brian Feldman
In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's easy to induce, but I have no idea how I'd go about fixing it myself (being very new to that part of the kernel.) Here's the program which

Re: PCMCIA sio problem with current

1999-06-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199905281615.jaa32...@whistle.com Doug Ambrisko writes: : I wondering if I'm missing something here. I had PCMCIA stuff working : for a NE2000 ethernet card but not for serial ports. That is correct, at least for -current. : Does anyone have : serial ports working (ie. modems or

Re: allocate file blocks contiguously

1999-06-06 Thread Mark Newton
Zhihui Zhang wrote: My feeling is that if we allocate ALL the data blocks of a big file contiguously, this will lead to too much localization as described in the paper (or the book). However, this may be good for this big file if the system buffering capability and hardware allow it (at

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-06 Thread Arun Sharma
Brian Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org writes: In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's easy to induce, but I have no idea how I'd go about fixing it myself (being very new to

Re: Man pages for review

1999-06-06 Thread Wes Peters
Christopher Sedore wrote: One other thing which should be noted in the docs, or fixed in the kernel. The aiocb struct should be bzeroed before an aio_read or aio_write because if you happen to have garbage in the private part of the structure, the io can be synchronous (look at the first few