Re: question about boot loaders

1999-12-09 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 1999-12-09 (02:46), Robert Watson wrote: Once we get into boot2 land, I recognize the FreeBSD-specific loading code, etc. What I don't know much about is those first three 512-byte chunks of code. Boot0 appears to be booteasy, but given some ignorance about the i386 boot process, I'm

Re: question about boot loaders

1999-12-09 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: On Thu 1999-12-09 (02:46), Robert Watson wrote: Once we get into boot2 land, I recognize the FreeBSD-specific loading code, etc. What I don't know much about is those first three 512-byte chunks of code. Boot0 appears to be booteasy, but

Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Jason Evans
I've got a port of the most recent LinuxThreads (glibc-linuxthreads-2.1.2) running, but ran into a couple of minor problems integrating with our libc. LinuxThreads redefines a number of functions in order to make them either support thread cancellation or work correctly. The following functions

Re: question about boot loaders

1999-12-09 Thread Robert Watson
dcs suggests that the correct answer is: mbr is a replacement for boot0, without the OS choices. This seems to make sense, so I'll go with that unless someone has a better idea :-). We assume that you would never, therefore, use both mbr and boot0, explaining why there doesn't need to be an

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Peter Wemm
Jason Evans wrote: I've got a port of the most recent LinuxThreads (glibc-linuxthreads-2.1.2) running, but ran into a couple of minor problems integrating with our libc. LinuxThreads redefines a number of functions in order to make them either support thread cancellation or work correctly.

firewall problem?

1999-12-09 Thread Ralph Utbult
Hi I´m sitting behind a firewall consisting av FreeBsd and Squid. My mail program is Popper. I can mail to (and from) every adress I´ve tried - except freebsd.org. Here´s the error. The original message was received at Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:40:08 +0100 (CET) from [192.168.1.2] - The

Re: firewall problem?

1999-12-09 Thread Richard Smith
Ralph Utbult wrote: Hi I´m sitting behind a firewall consisting av FreeBsd and Squid. My mail program is Popper. I can mail to (and from) every adress I´ve tried - except freebsd.org. Here´s the error. The original message was received at Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:40:08 +0100 (CET) from

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:35:17AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: I've got a port of the most recent LinuxThreads (glibc-linuxthreads-2.1.2) running, Great! but ran into a couple of minor problems integrating with our libc. LinuxThreads redefines a number of functions in order to make them

Weird output from vmstat -m?

1999-12-09 Thread Robert Withrow
The recent discussion about route table leaks led me to check some of my systems. On one of them I got this: bash-2.03$ uname -srm FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 bash-2.03$ uptime 7:45AM up 28 days, 12:38, 3 users, load averages: 0.61, 0.50, 0.43 bash-2.03$ vmstat -m | grep routetbl | grep K

Sequence of Events in Kernel source?

1999-12-09 Thread Etienne De Bruin
Greetings Seniors. I am interested in establishing the sequence of events from a source code perspective from when the PC is switched on, to the login prompt. I am specifically interested in the setting up of lower level stuff like the drivers. memory etc. Can anyone please take a moment and

RE: tty level buffer overflows

1999-12-09 Thread Koster, K.J.
We're seeing it with our ppp link, which uses the kernel level ppp code. Since it doesn't happen for me often, it is hard to diagnose. You could set up a 486 (386?) and have it chew on a tonne of ipfw rules. If it is due to ipfw load, you should be able to force the problem to be

ifconfig panic using 3C574 card

1999-12-09 Thread Stephane E. Potvin
I just upgraded my laptop to use a fresh current from this morning (fresh checkout with empty /usr/obj). The machine is an IBM ThinkPad 760XD with 88Mb RAM. Now when the ep driver attaches my 3COM 3C574 it reports the following mac address: ep0: 3Com 3C574 at port 0x240-0x25f irq 10 slot 0 on

Veritas Software Now Shipping With Linux

1999-12-09 Thread Charles Randall
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/09/tech-veritas-linux Veritas Software Now Shipping With Linux MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) Veritas Software Corp. (VRTS.O) said on Thursday its software used to backup data on computer systems is being shipped with Red Hat Inc.'s Linux 6.1 Delux product.

Re: Faster Malloc

1999-12-09 Thread Emery Berger
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (regarding Hoard: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/emery/hoard) This allocator is pretty much what the Dynix allocator is, it wouldn't be difficult to clean-room implement this with a BSD license. They should have given credit to Dynix or at least

Re: firewall problem?

1999-12-09 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
your ip address 62.20.54.54 is not in DNS, you must have your address in DNS. we do not accept email from machines that do not have entries in DNS. amny spammer use addresses that do not appear in DNS jmb Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer:

Re: question about boot loaders

1999-12-09 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Robert Watson wrote: loaderloadedbyfunction mbr BIOSwhatever, maybe a couple of lines /boot/mbr is a copy of the classic DOS MBR code. Used by fdisk. Simply loads the partition marked as 'active' (flag

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:42:56AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: In this case, you'd want, for example, an _lseek(), _libc_lseek(), and _seek(). I meant "and lseek()", not _seek(). -- Richard Seaman, Jr. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5182 N. Maple Lanephone:

Re: Veritas Software Now Shipping With Linux

1999-12-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes- this also concerned and annoyed the folks at Legato. It puts *me* in a bit of a bind because I have had business ties to both companies (I still do (at a very slow rate) Legato NetWorker client packages for *BSD and non-Intel Linux). On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Charles Randall wrote:

printf() from KLD

1999-12-09 Thread Alex
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Alex" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be sure to reply to that address. Hello, I use printf() function from my KLD for debugging. Always, when the kernel call printf, I see two same line, like : Dec 9 15:40:10 techno /kernel: message Dec 9 15:40:10 techno

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Jason Evans
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:42:56AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:35:17AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: The problem with cancellation points, libc and linuxthreads has been that you need to wade through libc and replace instances of, for example, write() with

Re: printf() from KLD

1999-12-09 Thread Archie Cobbs
Alex writes: This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Alex" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be sure to reply to that address. Hello, I use printf() function from my KLD for debugging. Always, when the kernel call printf, I see two same line, like : Dec 9 15:40:10 techno /kernel: message Dec

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
Jason Evans wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:42:56AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:35:17AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: The problem with cancellation points, libc and linuxthreads has been that you need to wade through libc and replace instances of, for

Re: Sequence of Events in Kernel source?

1999-12-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Etienne De Bruin wrote: Greetings Seniors. I am interested in establishing the sequence of events from a source code perspective from when the PC is switched on, to the login prompt. I am specifically interested in the setting up of lower level stuff like the

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:57:45PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:42:56AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:35:17AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: The problem with cancellation points, libc and linuxthreads has been that you need to wade

Re: question about boot loaders

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
The documentation in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 seems a little scant, and that still hanging out in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot is clearly outdated. Was wondering if someone could point me at docs, and/or post a short summary something in the form of:

Re: printf() from KLD

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Alex" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be sure to reply to that address. Hello, I use printf() function from my KLD for debugging. Always, when the kernel call printf, I see two same line, like : Dec 9 15:40:10 techno /kernel: message Dec 9 15:40:10

Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?)

1999-12-09 Thread Pat Lynch
We are having a similar problem at the job I just started. A box meeting the exact specifications that Mike said caused the problem is essentially having the crap beat out of it as far as disk access and network activity (it might help to also say that this company is rather large in the scheme

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: Actually, I don't think all that many apps use pthread_cancel(). Its kind of messy to use. Most can get along without it, which is why there have only been a limited number of complaints about the lack of pthread_cancel() in libc_r (until recently). BTW, I

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 05:41:09PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: Actually, I don't think all that many apps use pthread_cancel(). Its kind of messy to use. Most can get along without it, which is why there have only been a limited number of complaints about the

Re: Possible libc changes to support LinuxThreads

1999-12-09 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 05:41:09PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: Actually, I don't think all that many apps use pthread_cancel(). Its kind of messy to use. Most can get along without it, which is why there have

Crypto in the kernel: where how?

1999-12-09 Thread Archie Cobbs
What is the plan (if any) for including crypto stuff in the kernel? As time goes on this will be more and more needed, eg. for IPSec and other VPN applications. It would be nice if we had a /usr/src/sys/crypt directory, plus whatever export-controlled firewalling silliness is necessary.

Re: Crypto in the kernel: where how?

1999-12-09 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:01:38 -0800 (PST) Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the plan (if any) for including crypto stuff in the kernel? As time goes on this will be more and more needed, eg. for IPSec and other VPN applications. At NetBSD, we already solved this problem with

Re: Upgrading rdist to v6.1.5 in -CURRENT?

1999-12-09 Thread C. Stephen Gunn
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:13:34PM -0500, C. Stephen Gunn wrote: I'll send-pr the recipe, and post a reference here when I document how I worked around some of the magnicomp guys's kludged makefiles/includes. I've send-pr'd my attempt at getting this ready for import. (bin/15390) You can

Re: Crypto in the kernel: where how?

1999-12-09 Thread Mark Murray
What is the plan (if any) for including crypto stuff in the kernel? As time goes on this will be more and more needed, eg. for IPSec and other VPN applications. The KAME/IPv6 guys have already brought this up; the agreement was that... It would be nice if we had a /usr/src/sys/crypt