NetBIOS name resolver for smbfs

2000-07-25 Thread Boris Popov
Hello, At first, I would like to say thanks for everybody who take a time to perform initial testing of smbfs and providing me with feedback. To make this implementation more complete I've added an initial version of NetBIOS name resolver, so the '-I host' flag can be

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-25 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Polstra wrote: Glad you liked the idea! :-) Well imagine if Joe user gets a Linux binary or a.out binary to run. Bam, it doesn't run, and one'd have to check each file, and unset the variables. Or forgo any user-feedback. :( Well, there is a different reason for

Re: Where is the syncer kernel process implemented?

2000-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:34:39 MST, Kirk McKusick wrote: time_t filedelay = 30; /* time to delay syncing files */ time_t dirdelay = 29; /* time to delay syncing directories */ time_t metadelay = 28; /* time to delay syncing metadata */ Each of these variables is

4.1-RELEASE will be tagged and done tonite, starting at 18:00 PDT

2000-07-25 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Just a heads-up to say that the last few issues have been dealt with and it looks like we're on target for a July 25th, 18:00 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) tag and (as soon as that's finished) release operation. I'll be putting the i386 and alpha bits together throughout the night and will be

Re: Where is the syncer kernel process implemented?

2000-07-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000725 00:59] wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:34:39 MST, Kirk McKusick wrote: time_t filedelay = 30; /* time to delay syncing files */ time_t dirdelay = 29; /* time to delay syncing directories */ time_t metadelay = 28; /*

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-25 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Zepeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Polstra wrote: FreeBSD ELF: It's required by the ELF specification. FreeBSD a.out: Backward compatibility. Linux ELF: Because it's part of Linux and that's just what it does.

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-25 Thread Nate Williams
Besides, have you even established that dynamically linked programs load too slowly? I've certainly never heard any complaints along those lines. Furthermore I would bet that the bulk of the dynamic linking time comes from opening the shared libraries and mmapping them, and there's nothing

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-25 Thread cort
Right, that was the plan with that code. In fact, I saw some improvement in performance when turning the caches off when in the idle task no matter what we were doing in it. It seems that it kept us out of the cache so we didn't evict the working-set of block processes. } The way Cort

RE: dlopen() and friends from a statically-linked binary?

2000-07-25 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 20-Jul-00 Raymond Wiker wrote: Is it possible, at all, to use dlopen etc from a statically-linked executable? My experiments with FreeBSD-4.0 (see below) indicate that it's not possible. You can't do it from a statically linked

Re: odd accept(2) behavior

2000-07-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Greg Thompson writes: i'm seeing some fairly odd behavior from accept(2) when the connecting socket goes away at just the right time. the timing is fairly funky, so i don't know if i can easily whip up a repro for this, but what i'm seeing is: accept returns a positive value (ie: not an

Re: RealSystem module for libalias

2000-07-25 Thread Erik Salander
Here's the latest patch for the aliasing of the RTSP/RTP and PNA (an earlier proprietary protocol from Real.com (Progressive Networks)) protocols. This is the last call for comments, trying to commit this week. ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/erik/misc/libalias-rtsp-patch.3 FYI, this is the

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-25 Thread Julian Stacey
From: John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, there isn't. I don't plan to do anything more with the a.out dynamic linker, as I consider it obsolete at this point. I'd BTW (last I looked) support of gzipped execs was only available for aout, not for elf, ... one more residual use for aout,

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-25 Thread Mike Smith
From: John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, there isn't. I don't plan to do anything more with the a.out dynamic linker, as I consider it obsolete at this point. I'd BTW (last I looked) support of gzipped execs was only available for aout, not for elf, ... one more residual use for aout,