Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
an external LaCie disk hooked up to his Mac until I threatened to pour Coca Cola into the PSU (this was after I'd hinted several times that the handles on his G3 would serve very well for chucking it out the window) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan

Re: how to start to be a hacker?

1999-07-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Not to let this become a passage of right or anything. ITYM "rite of passage". HTH, HAND! DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Repalcement for grep(1)

1999-07-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
a : at the start of your getopt() string and examine every argument getopt() complains about. Hope this helps... keep up the good work! DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Repalcement for grep(1)

1999-07-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. It complains about files with my name at the top (e.g. /usr/include/fetch.h in FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x) in non-ISO8859 locales. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[accidentally b0rked the cc: line; apologies to those who get this twice] Jason Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 07 Jul 1999 20:57:16 +0200 Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't use err() indiscriminately after a malloc() failure; malloc() doesn't set errno

Re: Repalcement for grep(1)

1999-07-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[0].rm_so == 0 pmatch[0].rm_eo == len) This should save you from playing games with back-references. (both code snippets assume that line points to a line of text from the input and that len is the length of that line minus the newline) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Repalcement for grep(1)

1999-07-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
BTW, the end-of-line handling is wrong; grep will fail to select a line where the pattern appears at the end and the line is not terminated by a newline. I'm working on a fix (and on implementing my solution for -w and -x). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Assar Westerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + realpat = grep_malloc(strlen(pattern) + sizeof("^(") + + sizeof(")$") + 1); Why not just use asprintf? Doesn't matter, thsis code is gone in the

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

1999-07-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
f how much RAM / swap you have. You won't run into trouble unless you actually try to use too much of it. What happens if the process hits its resource limits? Malloc() fails with ENOMEM. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Devloper

1999-07-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
/contrib.html DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-07-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mdoc.samples(7). Now tell me that that's not intuitive. It would seem mdoc.samples(7) does not teach by example :) des@des ~% man -t mdoc.samples | lpr -Plex Usage: .Rv -std sections 2 and 3 only DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Determining the return address

1999-07-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Overcommit and calloc()

1999-07-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ize_t size; { register void *p; size *= num; if ( (p = malloc(size)) ) bzero(p, size); return(p); } so the answer is yes, it overcommits, but the bzero() may cause the system to run out of swap. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe:

Re: PAM LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Oscar Bonilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the idea is to have an entry in the /etc/passwd enabling LDAP lookups. the Entry would be of the form ldap:*:389:389:o=My Organization, c=BR:uid:ldap.myorg.com Horrible idea. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: PAM LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Oscar Bonilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:13:51PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Oscar Bonilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the idea is to have an entry in the /etc/passwd enabling LDAP lookups. the Entry would be of the form ldap:*:389:389:o=My

Re: Overcommit and calloc()

1999-07-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Kelly Yancey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahh...but wouldn't the bzero() touch all of the memory just allocated functionally making it non-overcommit? No. If it were an "non-overcomitting malloc", it would return NULL and set errno to ENOMEM, instead of dumping core.

Re: Overcommit and calloc()

1999-07-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
o() before filling it in, but they're usually on the stack. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Overcommit and calloc()

1999-07-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav scribbled this message on Jul 20: When I allocate memory, I usually intend to put something in it. There's always the odd struct sockaddr_in which I bzero() before filling it in, but they're usually on the stack. and even

BSDI binary compatibility

1999-07-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ripped des@des ~/yes/bsdi/cmc/bsdi_static% ./hello ELF binary type not known. Use "brandelf" to brand it. zsh: abort ./hello DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: amandad zombies (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, but it's the FreeBSD ones I'm concerned with at the moment. I'm using Amanda 2.4.1. (Note that the symptomology on the Solaris machines is different, which is why I'm posting this to -hackers.) This was fixed in revision 1.49 of src/usr.sbin/inetd.c (1999/05/11). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

UDMA problems on ALI chipsets

1999-07-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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IDE breakage

1999-07-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
NMBCLUSTERS=8192 ___device fxp0 ___device xl0 ___pseudo-deviceether ___pseudo-deviceloop 2 ___pseudo-devicebpfilter 4 ___pseudo-devicepty 64 ___ ___# Console ___controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty ___device atkbd0 at isa? tty irq 1

Re: IDE breakage

1999-07-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm experiencing serious problems with DMA (even normal DMA, not UDMA) on recent versions of -STABLE. Here's an excerpt from messages; kernel #3 is a recent -STABLE (yesterday's sources), while kernel #2 is 3.2-RELEASE. The config file for both

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c inetd.h

1999-07-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ike to see is a tcpdump log of the UDP scan ('tcpdump -i ed0 udp or icmp'). Yes, I know it's going to be huge. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c inetd.h

1999-07-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Andre Albsmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Comes in private email. It's about 130KB after which tcpdump crashed with: zsh: 5741 segmentation fault tcpdump -i fxp0 150 udp or icmp Weird. Very weird. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c inetd.h

1999-07-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
not log them (though it logs TCP queries). I'll update to the latest inetd and try again. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

TCP/IP hardening

1999-07-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. The logredirect code uses inet_ntoa, which is a bad idea. I'm open to suggestions for a better solution. Also, these sysctl variables should be described in a man page somewhere, but I'm not sure which one. These patches compile, but are not fully tested. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it ever gets committed (I don't think it's particularly useful myself), That's 2 against, 1 (me) for. Three against. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
parties. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Version 0.3 broke port-building badly. Does version 0.7 make it through a build of a whole stack of ports? Yes. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
is important. Do you mean that Jamie's implementation doesn't pass those regression tests? If they don't, we can fix it before importing it into the tree. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Brian F. Feldman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point was that it's not a very important thing to do to give out FreeBSD CDs like BSD/OS gives out trial versions of their wares. Yes, it is. Try doing an FTP install across a 28k8 or 33k6 modem some time. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgra

Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes

1999-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
for this purpose on some embedded systems where I need this capability. Might one persuade you to release that 100-line program? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
() fails (e.g. NFS). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
-doubling of running time with similar patches. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
icial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs. There were even a few such cases in our tree that I fixed less than a year ago IIRC. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: No MAXUID ?

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ing to say something like "legacy software may not support UIDs larger than 65535" DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

grep-0.11

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ftp://ftp.ofug.org/pub/grep/grep-0.11.tar.gz More (gprof-assisted) speedups. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: To be precise, I experience a 30% decrease in system time and a 100% increase in user time when I use RE_STARTEND and eliminate the malloc() / memcpy() calls in procfile(). Could you please test my patch th

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you please test my patch that removes malloc() but bot memcpy()? Here it is again, though against an old version: Bingo. REG_STARTEND is significantly more expensive than memcpy(). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
/conf/Makefile.pc98 src/usr.bin/Makefile src/usr.bin/chflags/Makefile src/usr.bin/chpass/Makefile src/usr.bin/passwd/Makefile DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
easy to make the modification, and I'm willing to do all the work, assuming no one on -committers objects.. The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts port numbers. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 02 Aug 1999 13:05:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts port numbers. Would this not still require modifications to /etc/services for services not already mentioned in that file

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The buildworld chflags problems were fixed around a month ago I think. No, I fixed them in february or march. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Tim Vanderhoek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Set INSTALLFLAGS_EDIT=:S/schg/,/ to remove these when doing a make world, if needed. Please try to understand what the issue is before butting in. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: readdirplus is very cool, any other nfs client suggestions?

1999-08-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
on NFSv3 localhost mounts. Yeah, I was doing installworlds with /usr, /usr/src and /usr/obj NFS-mounted (in a chroot tree on the server, because I got tired of doing it over PLIP). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
it currently does with English, seeing as you guys have nearly phonetic spelling. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ur disk supports DMA, of course. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ogin class. = DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel O'Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy for ftp requests like ftp does? Yes. I intend to implement this in libfetch when I get around to rewriting the HTTP code. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
of file systems too? That's totally dependent on the particular file system. For instance, a swap partition contains no metadata (that I know of), so all you can do is deduce it's size and position from the sizes and positions of surrounding partitions, and of the slice they're in. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Josef Karthauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Josef Karthauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
and GPL bits, as long as the GPL bits come with full source. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New tests for test(1)

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
idea to add some new tests to test(1), to compare files based on criteria like size or modification date? NetBSD's test(1) utility has this (-nt and -ot). We should probably merge in their changes. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jason Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12 Aug 1999 11:01:06 +0200 Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This prevents you from relicensing BSD software under the GPL. It does not prevent you from selling an OS that has both BSD and GPL bits, as long as the GPL bits come

Re: [Review please] (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath manpath.config)

1999-08-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about the following patch. It adds an OPTIONAL_MANPATH directive, which is equivalent to the MANDATORY_MANPATH, except an absence of the directory is not considered an error. Sure. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
t; instead? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
worth watching? Too bad she's a scientologist. DES (http://www.moviebbs.com/gallery/samples/s-025-ka.jpg) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
.. patches...) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: More press

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
PI is open and documented, so there's nothing to stop someone from writing a small command-line util that does the equivalent of "netscape -remote" except faster and better. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fre

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
en you wouldn't be able to see the output while it runs. The only solution I can think of is the following: fsck_output="$(/sbin/fsck -p | /bin/tee /dev/console)" /sbin/mount -at nonfs echo "${fsck_output}" /var/run/fsck.boot but I don't expect people to be happy about moving

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
if ntpdate stepped my clock 23 seconds for some reason, thats why this (usually means a clock chip has gone zonkers :-)): Doesn't ntpdate log what it does with syslog? If not, I think whichever syscall it is that ntpdate uses to adjust the time should printf() or log() the change. DES --

Re: How to prevent motd including os info

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
s... Lazy people never achieve much. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
been moved, deleted, or incorporated into another part of Netscape's site. To report a broken link, please send a message to feedback. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: style question

1999-09-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Gregory Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Us humans can see that j is not used without being set, but cc can't. How do I remove this warning in a style(9)-compatible way? Initialize j. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: style question

1999-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
j = 0; if (flag) j = 1; return j; } Hmf, I just realized: int foo(int flag) { return !!flag; } or #define foo(x) (!!(x)) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: FTP directory listing with ftpio(3) and fetch(3)

1999-10-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, scroll back up to the AUTHORS section and find out who to contact :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: qcam/cqcam driver

1999-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
developer program where you can sign up to get tech specs and stuff. If somebody donates the eq I might hack up a KLD module :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Voice modems

1999-10-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Does anyone have any experience with controlling voice modems from FreeBSD, doing stuff like DTMF-driven phone reservation etc? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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)

1999-10-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~dispatch/stupid-bsd-questions.txt Looks great! BTW, do the hot twins down the hall have a phone number? 8) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Determine # of open files via fdesc

1999-10-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
file descriptors. The five descriptors you see above belong to ls. 0 (stdin) and 2 (stderr) are whichever tty or pty you typed this into, 1 (stdout) is the file you redirected the output from ls into, 3 is /dev and 4 is /dev/fd. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Determine # of open files via fdesc

1999-10-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each process only sees its own file descriptors. The five descriptors you see above belong to ls. 0 (stdin) and 2 (stderr) are whichever tty or pty you typed this into, 1 (stdout) is the file you redirected the output from ls into, 3 is /dev and 4

Re: FreeBSD and HP Jornado

1999-10-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jornada/BSD would be killer. Sounds like someone misspelled "Jordana/BSD" (Jordan wearing a miniskirt... scary) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Patches are available from http://www.freebsd.org/~des/. This is strictly proof-of-concept; the patches demonstrate that fine-grained security knobs can be implemented with minimal code impact. No documentation is provided, RTFS. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very clean, pretty, etc -- only one object: please call it something other than capabilities :-). [deletia] Please read the thread on -security and -arch that lead to these patches. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 21 Oct 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very clean, pretty, etc -- only one object: please call it something other than capabilities :-). [deletia] Please read the thread on -security and -arch that lead

Re: replacing grep (again) and regex speed ups

1999-10-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
James Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I submitted a PR (bin/14342) which adds a lot of speed to mismatches in Henry Spencer's regex code. Who knows a lot about regex whom I can bug? Umm, how about Henry Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED]? :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Running unattended (ifo FFS thread)

1999-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that 'fsck -py' ignores the 'p' and will fsck every time, even if it's unneeded. This takes ages for me. I believe I submitted a PR with a 'fix' to fsck. 'fsck -p || fsck -y' should do the trick. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: HEADS UP -stable

1999-11-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should do a 'config' again before making a kernel from -stable sources. *Always* re-run config(8) before building a kernel from updated sources. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: new IPFW

1999-11-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
when running in "Network secure mode" (securelevel 3 or higher). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: if.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/net/if.c,v retrieving revision 1.77 diff -u -r1.77 if.c --- if.c

Re: new IPFW

1999-11-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
monstrates the inadequacy of the secure level mechanism. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

New option to ping(8): dump packet contents

2000-01-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
to report the load average in echo reply packets. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: ping.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/ping/ping.c,v retrieving revision 1.49 diff -u -r1.49 ping.c --- ping.c 2000/01/14 23

IBM Netfinity 5600

2000-03-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
gnore this one! What is it, anyway ??? */ DES (half past six aye emm, still at work...) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Linprocfs observation.

2000-03-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, and a severe oversight on my part. 2) Make the "exe" file in /linproc/pid/ a symlink to "./private/exe", which is the file which gives you the executables real vnode. Sounds good. I'll get to it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
though... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

newsyslog(8) hack

2000-05-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
I've hacked newsyslog(8) to accept a list of log files to process on the command line (very useful in combination with -F). See attached patches. I'll commit this in a few days if noone objects. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: newsyslog.8

Re: Netfinity 5600 patches

2000-05-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
/freebsd-smp/2423.freebsd-smp Looks like it - and Andrew's the one who added support for the RCC in the first place. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Possible bug in /usr/bin/makewhatis

2001-01-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jos Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This patch gets rid of the Broken pipe messages. No need to name the loop... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Kernel programming

2001-01-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Alexander Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus spake Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Alexander Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There recently (last week or something) was a thread here or on another mailinglist on how to debug kernel moduls, which is a little bit tricky

Re: specify a different kernel to boot

2001-01-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Zhiui Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to specify a kernel other than /kernel to boot from? I do not want to do this manually, I want to put it into some configuration file. Thanks, 'man loader' DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame)

2001-01-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
psychological block is a much bigger obstacle to overcome than actual technical complexity. (hmm, I must remember to drop by Mustang Jack next time I'm in NYC) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: newbie - Audio CD question

2001-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
vijay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am new to FreeBSD. I wanted to know if I can play audio CDs on "my" system. 'man cdcontrol' DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Bash2 removes SSH_CLIENT from the environment

2001-01-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Chet Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bash uses the presence of SSH_CLIENT to decide whether or not to run the shell startup files for a non-interactive shell (like it attempts to do for rsh). [...] Feh. Here's a nickel, kid, get yourself a real shell. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release

2001-02-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
half a year ago. If you absolutely must run RELENG_3, don't run anything but the very latest 3.5-STABLE (cvsup and cvs are your friends). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release

2001-02-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. Well, it was a stupid decision at that time, and the decision not to upgrade or replace these machines now is even stupider. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O

2001-02-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
the day (or even the week) on which it occurred? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release

2001-02-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
down for however long you need to upgrade it (somewhere between half an hour and two hours depending on disk speeds and how much tinkering is needed). DES (been there, done that) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O

2001-02-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
every page during startup. Unless some form of clustering is done, this causes 16384 write operations for a 64 MB virtual machine... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

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