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2001-10-31 Thread Wency Arzadon
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Re: Test Suites

2001-10-31 Thread Terry Lambert
Sergey Babkin wrote: Look also for TET and ETET. SVVS (the System V Verification Suite, used for testing SVID compliance) uses TET. TET is owned by the Open Group and they license it for money (at least they did a couple of years ago). It's also a pain to use. I saved the public TET

Re: /etc/ld.so.preload?

2001-10-31 Thread Lamont Granquist
Sorry, that one isn't backwards compatible with the present version of the hints file. This one behaves nicer. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Lamont Granquist wrote: Well, here's a short patch to add the necessarily functionality to /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints and /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1. If this is

Re: debugging question

2001-10-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Mark Santcroos wrote: Thats what I already said in my email :) I was hoping that there is some way to dump the codepath of the kernel. Or is it maybe possible from ddb to move the context of a certain process and trace from there? tr PID gives you teh stack of that PID then set a

Re: debugging question

2001-10-31 Thread Mark Santcroos
Ah great. Thanks alot! Mark On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:11:07AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Mark Santcroos wrote: Thats what I already said in my email :) I was hoping that there is some way to dump the codepath of the kernel. Or is it maybe possible from ddb to move the

Changing syscalls numbers

2001-10-31 Thread Nickolay A.Kritsky
Hi, freebsd-hackers. Recently I was trying to change some syscalls numbers (i.e. syscall exit would have number 5 and syscall open would have number 1). My thought was, that for that operation one must edit file /usr/src/sys/kern/syscalls.master and remake world. I edited the file named above,

Re: Changing syscalls numbers

2001-10-31 Thread Evan Sarmiento
Did you type make init_sysent.c, after editing syscalls.master? - Evan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

RE: pxe booting problem

2001-10-31 Thread Paul Jansen
I looked in /boot on my 4.4R system and there was a 'pxeboot' file there. I've since modded my ISCv3 DHCPD.conf file to serve this file out to machines (after creating /tftpboot/boot/loader.rc) and it works great. Next step will be to test getting this to work using reservations from the MS DHCP

Re: Changing syscalls numbers

2001-10-31 Thread Maxime Henrion
Nickolay A.Kritsky wrote: Hi, freebsd-hackers. Recently I was trying to change some syscalls numbers (i.e. syscall exit would have number 5 and syscall open would have number 1). My thought was, that for that operation one must edit file /usr/src/sys/kern/syscalls.master and remake

Re: ACPI CA updated

2001-10-31 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mike Smith wrote: I've just updated the ACPI CA subsystem to the Intel 20011018 snapshot. This primarily fixes a couple of bugs in the ACPI interpreter; see the changelog at http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads/CHANGES.txt for full details.

Re: pxe booting problem

2001-10-31 Thread Paul Jansen
Henri, FYI - this is my dhcpd.conf. I didn't have to enable a lot of the options you had in yours: # dhcpd.conf # define new options option nfs-swap code 128 = string; option swap-size code 129 = integer 32; # option definitions common to all supported networks... option domain-name

Re: Changing syscalls numbers

2001-10-31 Thread Nickolay A.Kritsky
Hello Evan, Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 2:41:57 PM, you wrote: ES Did you type make init_sysent.c, after editing syscalls.master? ES - Evan No. I relied on make buildkernel. I will try this now. Maxime Henrion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : MH /usr/src/sys/kern/makesyscalls.sh syscalls.master

Re: pxe booting problem

2001-10-31 Thread Henri Michelon
Le Mercredi 31 Octobre 2001 12:49, vous avez écrit : Henri, FYI - this is my dhcpd.conf. I didn't have to enable a lot of the options you had in yours: My dhcpd.conf is a 'pxe' generic config. I used it with FreBSD pxeboot, pxelinux, pxegrub, bpbatch and 3COM .pxe files. Some PXE boot

Re: Driver help

2001-10-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:08:42AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:04:16PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: There is the isp(4) driver, by Matt Jacob, that supports Qlogic FC HBAs. Further clarifyin this: CPQ use QL2200 for use with Linux. CPQ KGPSA are Emulex LP[78]000, as

Re: Simple pthread question

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have successfully used sleep in this situation. I wanted a process that activated every hour (it did some garbage collection), so it went something like while (1) { sleep(3600); do_stuff(); } and the other threads worked fine. Arjan Knepper wrote: How do I suspend one particular

Re: Simple pthread question

2001-10-31 Thread Sansonetti Laurent
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 08:26, Arjan Knepper wrote: How do I suspend one particular thread without suspending the whole process? I can not use sleep or usleep can I? You can use them, since they use nanosleep() which is I think re-entrant. If you are using digital unix pthreads implementation,

Re: Simple pthread question

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Arjan Knepper wrote: How do I suspend one particular thread without suspending the whole process? I can not use sleep or usleep can I? Also, if you do apropos pthread you will see listed a whole bunch of functions, some of which may be more suitable for you, depending upon your

RE: ACPI CA updated

2001-10-31 Thread Grover, Andrew
From: Doug Rabson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] This doesn't appear to fix the 64bit alignment problems which we had while trying to use the code on ia64. Any news on when/whether Intel will accept our 64bit patches? Our next release will include a fix for this. Regards -- Andy To

Interesting OS research project

2001-10-31 Thread Rayson Ho
http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/ Rayson __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

RE: ACPI CA updated

2001-10-31 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote: From: Doug Rabson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] This doesn't appear to fix the 64bit alignment problems which we had while trying to use the code on ia64. Any news on when/whether Intel will accept our 64bit patches? Our next release will

Re: Driver help

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes, well, there is something Linux called the Compaq Fibre Channel Driver, and it's not QLogic based- nor is it Emulex based- I believe it's Tachyon- lite. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:08:42AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at

Re: Driver help

2001-10-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:49:19AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: That is probably what we call the Jaguar in-house. It is (IIRC) a dumb adapter, there is a Tachyon on it for sure. Wilko Yes, well, there is something Linux called the Compaq Fibre Channel Driver, and it's not QLogic based- nor

Re: Driver help

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew Jacob
dumb is relative and fungible. It's a tradeoff between doing the connection management in firmware (as with the QLogic) or in the Kernel (as with Tachyon products mostly). It depends on whom you believe ultimately does a better job. Doing it in firmware allows the driver writer to manage the

Re: Driver help

2001-10-31 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Jacob wrote: dumb is relative and fungible. It's a tradeoff between doing the connection management in firmware (as with the QLogic) or in the Kernel (as with Tachyon products mostly). It depends on whom you believe ultimately does a better job. Doing it in firmware allows the

Re: Driver help

2001-10-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:37:47AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: dumb is relative and fungible. Sure.. It's a tradeoff between doing the connection management in firmware (as with the QLogic) or in the Kernel (as with Tachyon products mostly). It depends on whom you believe ultimately does a

ssh forwarding

2001-10-31 Thread Martin Vana
hi, I've got a problem with ssh forwarding. I wont to be able to run a service which has one stable port to communicate (411) and then starts to create another connections on random ports below 1. Forwarding just one port is throug our firewall was easy. But how to forward whole 1 ports?

test!

2001-10-31 Thread ebf
just testing! thanks!OM Eduardo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Nicpon, John
Please specifically definewheredata goes that is sent to /dev/null

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:02:59PM -0600, Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null How 'specific' are you trying to get? /dev/null is a pseudo-device to which writes never fail. What question are you _really_ trying to ask? -- Brian 'you

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Terry Lambert
Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null The bit bucket. You won't have to empty the one in your machine until the year 2038, which we assume someone will come up with a way of recyling the used bits by then (or just compressing them into bus

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Geoff Mohler
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Brian Reichert wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:02:59PM -0600, Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null How 'specific' are you trying to get? /dev/null is a pseudo-device to which writes never fail. What question

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Jim Bryant
Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null Without actually looking at the code, the generic definition of /dev/null goes something to the effect of: open /dev/null while(1) { select on /dev/null read byte from /dev/null

RE: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Nicpon, John
ethersWhere does data go when it dies?/ethers -Original Message- From: Brian Reichert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 3:08 PM To: Nicpon, John Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:02:59PM -0600, Nicpon,

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Jim Bryant
It's similar to the space/time wormhole that appears in your clothes dryer, and randomly sucks out only one sock out of every pair into a parallel universe. Somewhere, there is a universe made up of nothing but odd socks, where they each lead a very happy odd-sockish singular life. I assume

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Mathieu Arnold
Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null to the place where no data ever came back. -- Mathieu Arnold To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null to the place where no data ever came back. ..on those blank tapes on which you should be backing up the data you do care about. ..to help fight the secret, hidden war against entropy. To

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Drew Eckhardt
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What question are you _really_ trying to ask? What is the sound of one hand clapping? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Josef Grosch
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:08:38PM -0700, Drew Eckhardt wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What question are you _really_ trying to ask? What is the sound of one hand clapping? If a bit falls into the bit bucket and signal is not raised does it make a sound?

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no conservation of data law. So the data simply disappears. Answer 2. All the data goes into another dimension, and comes out of /dev/random. --

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Terry Lambert
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Answer 2. All the data goes into another dimension, and comes out of /dev/random. That would be so funny... I cat /dev/random, and I get your files, as you delete them. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:08:38PM -0700, Drew Eckhardt wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What question are you _really_ trying to ask? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Can this go to -chat please?? -- | / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL

CVS: connection refused

2001-10-31 Thread Hiten Pandya
hi all, i have been trying to connect to the FreeBSD Anonymous CVS Server.. and it always keeps on saying no to me... could some guide me thru this please.. thanks... error: cvs [login aborted]: connect to anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:2401 failed: Connection refused - regards, hiten

Re: CVS: connection refused

2001-10-31 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:13:23PM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: hi all, i have been trying to connect to the FreeBSD Anonymous CVS Server.. and it always keeps on saying no to me... could some guide me thru this please.. thanks... error: cvs [login aborted]: connect to

pmap_collect() and PG_UNMANAGED

2001-10-31 Thread David Xu
Hi, is there any reason why pmap_collect() in /sys/i386/i386/pmap.c does not check PG_UNMANAGED flag? unmanaged page does not have pv_entry associated, so call pmap_remove_all() has side effect, PG_MAPPED and PG_WRITEABLE are roughly cleared.-- David Xu

MFS inside the Kernel

2001-10-31 Thread Eduardo B . Fonseca
Hello Guys, I would like to know how do I put a MFS partition inside the kernel? I've seen some people mention this, but no HOWTOs... I've tried to use the write_mfs_in_kernel program, but when I try to boot, I get BTX Halted error. Please, help me! Thanks! Eduardo. To Unsubscribe:

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Lamont Granquist
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no conservation of data law. So the data simply disappears. Doesn't thermodynamics second law

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Jim Bryant
Lamont Granquist wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no conservation of data law. So the data simply disappears. Doesn't

Re: pmap_collect() and PG_UNMANAGED

2001-10-31 Thread Peter Wemm
David Xu wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000C_01C162B1.0ECE7770 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, is there any reason why pmap_collect() in /sys/i386/i386/pmap.c does = not

Re: pmap_collect() and PG_UNMANAGED

2001-10-31 Thread David Xu
- Original Message - From: Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: Re: pmap_collect() and PG_UNMANAGED David Xu wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:20:33PM -0800, Lamont Granquist wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no conservation of data

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Chad Ziccardi
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Nicpon, John wrote: Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null To boldy go where no Data has returned from before? -- Chad Ziccardi, Professional Slacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Bakul Shah
Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null The same place where /dev/random gets its data from. Unless your computer is owned by gummint, in which case FBI gets it as you have to keep a copy of all output. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with