Re: 'rtfm script'

1999-07-05 Thread Chris Costello
. Then the FAQ. Then, maybe see if I can find out if they start bitching, and if so, email Jesus Monroy. Note that I can't figure out a decent way to search the Handbook at this point, but I'm open to ideas. -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stack Error: Lost

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-05 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Jul 5, 1999, Joe Abley wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:11:57AM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: I've been encountering people recently who, for one reason or another, are unable to find information for themselves when they have a question on FreeBSD. I propose an rtfm(1

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
/. It's meant to be an information center for those just getting started with FreeBSD. Doug -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your child processes are? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: 'rtfm' script

1999-07-06 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: RTFM isn't a newby-apparent term. Name it help(1). That would cause problems with bash users. They already have a builtin help command. -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] On a clear disk you can seek forever

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-10 Thread Chris Costello
should be considered trustworthy. -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] If a train station is where the train stops, what is a work station? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: a BSD identd

1999-07-10 Thread Chris Costello
ng systems like Windows, Mac OS, or DOS. -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure it's user-friendly...if you know what you're doing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
strstr, but I might attempt to work on one. -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:45:39PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: So far, it seems the functionality is the same. A tarball is availible at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz What was the advantage of rewriting it in C? I can

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
with Perl. Plus the first -- I'm terrible with keeping Perl code managed. -- Chris Costello[EMAIL PROTECTED] To be, or not to be, those are the parameters. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: glibc

1999-07-18 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999, Per Lundberg wrote: Has anybody done a port of glibc to FreeBSD? (I'm not interested in opinions about how poor it is or how evil the FSF are; I'm only asking to avoid duplicate work. Thanks.) Not that I know of, but what's the point? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL

Re: glibc

1999-07-19 Thread Chris Costello
in another library than libc, though. Actually, I'd better suggest this to the GNU people right ahead. What is the point of using GNU-getopt over the standard getopt other than --foo-bar flags that everyone I know hates? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Watch out for off-by-one errors

Re: glibc

1999-07-19 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Chris Costello wrote: What is the point of using GNU-getopt over the standard getopt other than --foo-bar flags that everyone I know hates? Hi, I'm Daniel. Pleased to meet you. Now you know someone who doesn't hate it. Good morning

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-07-24 Thread Chris Costello
NS is 1033, 1034, and 1035, and NNTP is 0850 and 0977. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Never trust a computer you can't lift. - Stan Masor ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Do I get a discount for having the same first name? Nope, you get charged double for attempting to share in the Matt-light. I've got you _all_ beat. Both of their first names is my middle name. I get through free! -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL

Re: yet more ways to attack executing binaries (was Re: deny ktrace without read permissions? )

1999-07-26 Thread Chris Costello
of those (or defaults) might be something to look into. Or is that second one fixed in FreeBSD? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[Unix] is not necessarily evil, like OS/2. - Peter Norton `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-01 Thread Chris Costello
instead? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Advanced design: Upper management doesn't understand it. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Tuning web benchmarks

1999-08-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999, David Miller wrote: After the "Broken pipe" message it dies with a returncode of 141. You might want to try the Apache lists for this. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |When all else fails, let a = 7. |If that doesn't help, then read

Re: libcompat proposition

1999-08-11 Thread Chris Costello
try to be more compatible with. I'm in favor of a libgnucompat rather than gnu functions in libcompat. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |DYNAMIC LINKING ERROR: Your mistake is now everywhere. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: cvs commit: src/bin/test test.c

1999-08-23 Thread Chris Costello
ruid problem remains. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Disc space, the final frontier! `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-26 Thread Chris Costello
to case wherever possible. It also does the following. 2. value ) instead of value) for case statements Why? What's wrong with `value)'? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Chris Costello
]* ) # ... matches "ZOUNDS " but not "ZOUNDS" ? ;; I'd think it might have trouble with that whitespace. And to quote sh(1)'s man page: The syntax of the case command is case word in pattern) list ;; esac -- |Chris Coste

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: Why?!? I like the existing "case" style _much_ better, it's more readable and emphasizes the structure. I agree 100%. Regards Oliver -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that are

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-28 Thread Chris Costello
appreciate this, I just love to nitpick. :) -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To iterate is human; to recurse, divine. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: troubles with ipfw!

1999-08-31 Thread Chris Costello
.) Enabled the IPFIREWALL option in your kernel and recompiled the system? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |When in doubt, don't bother. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999, Robert Sexton wrote: I'd have to agree with the "Lets be more professional" crowd. How about as a LINT option? "If you need something so banal, you can turn it on yourself" No, since it would just be useless bloat in the source tree. -- |C

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Chris Costello
uot;Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed." :) -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |You might have mail. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: UCB removes advertising clause

1999-09-03 Thread Chris Costello
agreement is enforced. Without them, where would we be? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Your fault, core dumped. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: The usage of MNT_RELOAD

1999-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
not to be used normally. It looks like it 'reloads' the file system when you change the mount flags, e.g. changing a synchronous file system to an asynchronous file system, without really un-mounting it. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
mory? See that it is running? View the argv list? I don't see how this would affect privacy. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Your fault, core dumped. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
is needed. If a user does not want their process to be seen, they could do something like call setproctitle(). Thanks a lot! -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |I suppose when it gets to that point, we shan't |know how it does it. - Turing

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
into it, but it should be rather trivial, if such security is important. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
n it would have no way of telling. In Texas we call that a chroot. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |It takes an extra touch of stupidity to spill a drink |in electronics. -- Anonymous `- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-09 Thread Chris Costello
pointing to a URL with your patch, or using send-pr PS: This is my first attempt to start touching the kernel, so, don't blame, if i wrote something wrong. If you did something wrong, it won't be accepted into the kernel! :) -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Jury -- Twelve people who determine

Re: more info Re: how did I manage this?

1999-09-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Chris Costello wrote: However, if do a 'cd \$DEST_DIR' I end up in the root directory. If I do a 'rm $DEST_DIR/', I get 'rm: /: is a directory'. If it can't be a hard link I have no idea what it is. That's because $DEST_DIR is expanding to "/"

Re: more info Re: how did I manage this?

1999-09-12 Thread Chris Costello
1024 Aug 20 21:15 / 2 drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 512 Sep 9 15:58 /usr 2 drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 May 27 06:13 /var -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Programming Department: Mistakes made while you wait. `-- To Unsubscribe: send

Re: what is devfs?

1999-09-18 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: DEVFS is an experimental idea. I must also say that DEVFS is an excellent idea. I honestly didn't really understand it until recently, though I've heard about it for a while. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Watch out for off-by-one

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Costello
PL command into a product which is sold in binary form only. You also cannot do such things with an embedded Unix system using said command. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |My mail reader can beat up your mail reader. ` To Unsubscribe: send

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
for about two weeks. Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially for those using apache from ports! -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |State-of-the-practice: What we can do with the money you have. `-- To Unsubscribe

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: Patches to do this would be trivial. It would have to be a flag you'd use with '-r' otherwise we'd have to call the program 'fetch'. What about the graphical interface and Java versions? Any plans for that in pkg_install? -- |Chris Costello

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-25 Thread Chris Costello
aren't motivational, I give up.] -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Eunuchs, the non-gender-specific OS ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Stupid Newbie questions (was re: developer assessment)

1999-10-05 Thread Chris Costello
article! Perhaps it could go into the handbook, or perhaps be an article of its own. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: file system full

1999-10-08 Thread Chris Costello
t should I do to fix it? Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with the file system. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Never lick a gift horse in the mouth. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-10-10 Thread Chris Costello
(kindof on the level of a splash screen) I disagree. BogoMIPS is a completely meaningless measurement and does not belong in our source tree as it will only produce repository bloat. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation

Re: aio_read kills machine

1999-10-10 Thread Chris Costello
a PR using the ``send-pr'' command or http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html and supply the source to your program and whatever other information you think will help us in figuring out the problem. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Field tested: Manufacturing doesn't have a test system

Re: file system system calls

1999-10-10 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: grep ^somefuncname */* this is because the concention is to write functions like so: int somefunctioname(foo) { You mean int somefuncname(char *foo) { -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Death is a nonmaskable interrupt

Re: aio_read kills machine

1999-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
the program. Thanks. Chad -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |TRAPEZOID - A device for catching zoids. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Unquoted mail (was: aio_read kills machine)

1999-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
MTA between him and me (his mail server, calldei.com's mail server, or my fetchmail) has quoted it on my message. Greg -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |State-of-the-art: What we could do with enough money. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: module names

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Costello
under? I also disagree with your usage of ``emu_''. I would prefer ``compat_''. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Costello
od without an object. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A closed mouth gathers no feet. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Implementing ioctl to set MAC address -- question.

1999-10-31 Thread Chris Costello
statement for "SIOCSIFMAC" (probably to be renamed) to net/if.c and dev/ed/if_ed.c (which is the card I'm using) as well as net/if_ethersubr.c. Are there any other files that need to know about the ioctl or am I going about this the wrong way entirely? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |This B

Re: A file with holes - a bug?

1999-11-22 Thread Chris Costello
/write syscalls. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 |passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.-- T. Cheatham `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Linux ioctl not implemented error

1999-11-30 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: Wait... vmware for linux works under FreeBSD now??? or it just runs freebsd??? It runs on FreeBSD. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |What do computer engineers use for birth control? Their personalities

Re: incoming directory on freebsd.org

1999-12-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: I have a patch to FreeBSD but I am not sure where to upload this file. Can someone point me to the directory? Use send-pr and include it there. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If it was easy, the hardware people would take care

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? Add a statement like printf("somefunc() being called!\n"); to the top of the function you want to 'measure'. -- |Chri

Re: Upper -Lower in shell script

1999-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
have a typeset command. To convert something to all upper-case is surprisingly easy: typeset -u variable Example: $ typeset -u f $ f=abc $ echo $f ABC -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein

Re: Upper -Lower in shell script

1999-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999, Alex wrote: I need in my shell script change upper case to lower case for characters. Cureently , I call c programm from script which do it. Is anybody did this inside script? Oops. That should be typeset -l. $ typeset -l var $ var=ABC $ echo $var abc -- |Chris

Re: Anybody know if there is any way to make ports use different workdir?

1999-12-18 Thread Chris Costello
. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |State-of-the-practice: What we can do with the money you have. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: your mail

2000-01-13 Thread Chris Costello
with the FreeBSD operating system? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Software is mind work. Having the right frame of mind is essential. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured that they had the obvious meaning. :-) BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |I'm sorry my Karma ran over your Dogma

Re: ls: alpha - numeric sorting

2000-02-10 Thread Chris Costello
). FreeBSD already supports an `-n' option, so you probably don't want to go with that. Probably if it does go in, both systems should use -N or something else unused, if only for consistancy amongst the two. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Host System Not Responding, Probably Down. Do

Re: DeCSS

2000-02-21 Thread Chris Costello
On Monday, February 21, 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: You're one of those people who follows instructions, are you? You're one of those people who out words, aren't you? :) -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Design simplicity: It was developed on a shoe-string budget

Re: DreamWeaver Crack 3.0

2000-01-30 Thread Chris Costello
programming on FreeBSD and for FreeBSD, and I'd imagine linux-admin is for discussing administration on Linux systems. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A list is only as strong as its weakest link. - Don Knuth `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Where is pci_intr_establish() _thread_sys_read()?

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Costello
of syscalls are reimplemented within libc_r for reasons that are kind of obvious (directly calling the read syscall from one thread would block all the other threads in a process). So _thread_sys_open() == open(2), _thread_sys_read() == read(2), etc. I don't know about pci_intr_establish. -- |Chris

Re: empty lists in for

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Costello
get an error or nothing if it's ksh88. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Know Thy User. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Dreamweaver 2

2000-03-25 Thread Chris Costello
for generating cracks, passwords and so on Where did you get this address as a place to get cracks for Windows software? This mailing list is for general FreeBSD technical discussion. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Chris Costello
, that on all Bourne shells and derivatives that you can do: export var=foo However, on all _POSIX_ shells, ``export var=foo'' is valid, if I remember correctly. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A closed mouth gathers no feet. `-- To Unsubscribe: send

RFC: Patches for mounting fdesc on /dev/fd and general cleanup

2000-04-21 Thread Chris Costello
and incorrect cloning. I'm looking for some review and feedback on this. Thanks. Documentation: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/ The patch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc.patch -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Make input easy to proofread

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Costello
. At least that's what the source code tells me. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |I smell a wumpus. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Costello
referred occurs in some interesting code in uthread_kern.c, though. _thread_sys_read() is the real read(2) syscall. They're renamed to ``_thread_sys_SYSCALL()'' for the purpose of reimplementing them in a thread-friendly manner, as you see with read() there. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: utmpx, this is gonna hurt...

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Costello
On Monday, May 15, 2000, James Howard wrote: How about adding the utmpx as required by SUSV2? It would make writing programs that need to talk to utmp/utmpx a lot simpler. Yes? No? I agree that this would be a good idea. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Performance proven

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Chris Costello
) attempts to load a module for the file system, if one exists. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Debugger: A tool that substitutes afterthought for forethought. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Chris Costello
/bin/sh needs. Should somebody make this into a port, that's one less dependancy. -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| Herblock's Law: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If it is good, they will stop making

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
the FreeBSD 'emergency CD' uses--however, the FreeBSD emergency CD mounts an MFS partition for you, instead. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this works out perfectly for you, for whatever reason you need such a setup. -- +---++ | Chris Costello

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
techniques could be used for booting off of cdrom. I'm assuming that there's some data he wants to permenantly store on a disk. But yes, just like the live FS CDROM, MFS can easily be used. -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| If the code

Re: fdescfs oddities

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Costello
as you or your programs are concerned, but the implementation (as opposed to interface) is a bit of a hack. -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| CCITT - Can't Conceive Intelligent Thoughts Today | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fdescfs oddities

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Costello
anything about it in a good while. -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| I do not fear computers. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
es finding a root utility that writes to /tmp have to do with umasking a file? (I've found it rather difficult to umask files in the past.) -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| I just found the last bug. | | [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Costello
. To get FreeBSD sent to you, please order it from http://www.FreeBSDMall.com/. Thanks. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Anybody can win, | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | unless there happens to be a second entry

Re: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report, June 2001

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Costello
an opinion on this? I'm thinking perhaps it should be made into part of the doc project. I'm in the middle of converting it into a DocBook article and will post a URL to it soon. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Where the system is concerned

Re: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report, June 2001

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
it in www, actually. Do you mean formatted using DocBook, or just HTML? -- +---++ | Chris Costello| All new: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The software is not compatible with previous

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
thing for the same reasons. -- +---+-+ | Chris Costello| Advanced design:| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Upper management doesn't understand

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
stack pointers and the like in thread-specific data structures. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| A bug in the code is worth two | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | in the documentation

Re: Korn shell STDOUT

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, June 20, 2000, gerald stoller wrote: Anybody know how I can easily change the STDOUT to be unbuffered? Using setbuf(3). (``man setbuf'') -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |You had mail, but the super-user read it, and deleted

Re: struct proc

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Costello
process. You should be using p for the process that called my_syscall. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |It wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. - Wilkes, 1949 `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Costello
) functions that perform one task. Setting a tab width to something other than 8 would tend to break formatting for people with normal editors. Just try viewing bsd.port.mk in vi with default settings and not seeing clutter. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Random access is the optimum

Re: dev to name

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Costello
On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Fox Anderson wrote: Hi. How can i find out the name of device file by device major/minor? The devtoname() function. ``man devtoname'' -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To define recursion, we must first define recursion

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-16 Thread Chris Costello
, but I'd like to add that it should probably integrate the fdesc code. Especially since I'm working on (and am soon going to hopefully commit) code to do more relatively major repairs to fdesc[1]. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[1] Removing all references to DTYPE_* macros

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Costello
this, my advance suggestion is that you differentiate between data and audio CDROM. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Swap read error. You lose your mind. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Chris Costello
. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Programmer: One who is too lacking in people skills |to be a software engineer. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-27 Thread Chris Costello
captures the state of the last-killed-thread (or process or whatever you want to call it. LinuxThreads seems like just a big hack...). LinuxThreads on FreeBSD cannot be kernel threads because that would require modifications to our scheduler which simply have not been made. -- |Chris Costello

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-28 Thread Chris Costello
of execution for a given 'userland process' can be running simulataneously (virtually on a UP, and realistically on a MP). I thought he had seen the term 'kernel threads' in the context of FreeBSD before, likely in the context of kthread_create() in the kernel. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL

Re: Howto profile my code?

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Costello
e analysis program gprof. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |There are always at least two ways to program the same thing. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Costello
^sem''. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Printed on 100% recyclable phosphor. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-01 Thread Chris Costello
: ra-sum.c:386: cast specifies array type *** Error code 1 Try this: u_int32_t *tcphash_haddr; tcphash_addr = malloc(sizeof(*tcphash_addr) * 256); You shouldn't be casting malloc and I don't see any reason to use *(foo[nmemb]) syntax. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Costello
, this will only hide warnings caused by not including stdlib.h. malloc(3) returns void * and does not need to be cast. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Last one out, turn off the computer! ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-08 Thread Chris Costello
/dev/null -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Use free-form input where possible. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 2 inetd's with 2 nics

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Costello
corresponds to the jail(8) environment. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 |passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.-- T. Cheatham

Re: limit processes that a user can 'see'

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Costello
of the main system, including root's processes, just use jail. This sets up more or less a 'virtual machine' you can use to effectively act as another running FreeBSD system. ``man 8 jail''. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |How do I set my Laser printer to "

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Chris Costello
for that type of downgrade. If the software you need to use externally calls nonstandard C library functions consider porting the library and linking it manually, or fixing the software: cc -o my-hurd-program -nostdlib -lglibc ... or something along those lines. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE REMOVE

2000-08-26 Thread Chris Costello
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