Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-14 Thread Ronnel P. Maglasang
John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008 05:03:20 am Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote: Hi All, Is there a way to explicitly assign an interrupt of a device? I'm running on 6.3 and the two NICs share the same interrupt. Obviously this will affect the performance if the NICs are exposed to

Re: Unprivileged user can't set sticky bit on a file; why?

2008-11-14 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Nate Eldredge wrote: I came across this when trying to rsync some files which had the sticky bit set on the remote side. (It's the historical Unix archive from tuhs.org; the files in question are part of an unpacked V7 UNIX installation, for which the sticky bit of course had meaning. :-) )

Re: Unprivileged user can't set sticky bit on a file; why?

2008-11-14 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Nate Eldredge wrote: I came across this when trying to rsync some files which had the sticky bit set on the remote side. (It's the historical Unix archive from tuhs.org; the files in question are part of an unpacked V7 UNIX installation, for

Re: Unprivileged user can't set sticky bit on a file; why?

2008-11-14 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:05:21PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: since root is able to do it. src/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c has the following comment: /* * Privileged processes may set the sticky bit on non-directories, * as well as set the setgid bit on a file with

convert bootable freebsd iso to bootable flash image

2008-11-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Just in case people have a similar need, or can point me to better code to do the same job: i needed to convert a bootable FreeBSD iso image into a bootable flash image, and have come up with the following code (derived from PicoBSD). The nice part is that this is all done without requiring root

looking for something like a union file system

2008-11-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am using a dev tool that maintains a split source tree for currently worked on files and those in the repo (aegis which is slightly different then how svn or cvs does it) and my the default build system assumes it is all in one tree thus I want someway of merge the two dirs and have a copy