Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release

2001-02-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
it eventually breaks.) Get a better job. Skilled IT workers are rare enough that they shouldn't need to put up with such crap, and shouldn't have any trouble getting a new job when the crap starts flying. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
doing I/O, and if you're already doing I/O as fast as you can there's no room for improvement. On a machine with a slower CPU or a faster I/O system, you'd see improvement. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, not the old 486DX33 you have lying in a corner. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] That implies to me, at least, that after a certain point the CPU is going to be the bottleneck. More likely RAM bandwidth. Those 133 Mhz FSBs ought to help, though. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. Stuff on disk has to be read into memory, and this is generally done by DMAing it off the disk, which locks the memroy bus, then copying it out into userland. With an MFS you skip the first part, unless MFS is stupider than I thought. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: edit /usr/src/contrib/ipfiler requires full recompile.

2001-02-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
by the kernel make process. Of course not. It's not part of the kernel. There's a duplicate of this file in /usr/src/sys/netinet which need to be kept in synch. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Build timings - FreeBSD 4.2 vs. Linux

2001-02-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Robin Cutshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas as to why it would take almost three times longer to build on FreeBSD? Yup: 4.x sucks at SMP. Try the comparison again with uniprocessor kernels - I expect you'll see a much smaller difference. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make bug? (dependency names with '$')

2001-02-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, my experience is that unless you're paying Sun significant amounts of $$, their reaction to bug reports is to close their eyes, hum real loud and hope they go away. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: make bug? (dependency names with '$')

2001-02-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
other, you can also just specify that one file on the command line. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Switching from buildkernel to config seems to recompile the entire kernel

2001-02-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ethod uses a compile directory in /usr/src. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Compaq e500, 3com cardbus card help

2001-02-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
, but it takes some hand-holding. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
d segfault. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
of memory that's already mapped and you'll be fine, but sometimes (when allocating beyond what was previously used) it won't. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: Malloc() does not overcommit - the kernel does. Malloc() doesn't know and doesn't care. But it could still probably force the behavior. Barring kernel changes, not easily, and only for single

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
allocated. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Compaq e500, 3com cardbus card help

2001-02-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kenneth Wayne Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 24 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Kenneth Wayne Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD supports cardbus in -CURRENT, but I wouldn't expect it to ever support cardbus in 4.x. If you are daring you can get -CURRENT, but from what

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel C. Sobral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It doesn't work. The application killed by reason of insufficient resources is not (necessarily) the one that causes the page fault leading to that. This is arguably a bug which needs to be fixed. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about setrlimit(RLIMIMT_DATA)? Yep, I'd forgotten about that. Malloc() will return NULL if you hit your data size limit. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: how to actually find out whether data hit the disk?

2001-03-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
it nevertheless does. OK, doing a stat and checking the mtime should give you the info at the expense of polling, I can't think of another way. Won't help. You'll get the same mtime no matter whether the file is actually written to disk or not. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to actually find out whether data hit the disk?

2001-03-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Anton Berezin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So is there a way, or is not? No. If there was a way to tell it'd be a bug. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to actually find out whether data hit the disk?

2001-03-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Dufault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Won't help. You'll get the same mtime no matter whether the file is actually written to disk or not. No, the spec says: [...] Oops, I was thinking "regular file with softupdates", not "mmapped file" (note to self: get more sleep)

Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help

2001-03-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
vmstat showing 100% busy and iostat showing 10% busy.. No, -vmstat and -iostat are showing 13 and 12 tps (transactions per second), respectively. -iostat doesn't show a "busy percentage". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Intel PRO/100+ PCI problem

2001-03-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ons PNPBIOS' to your kernel. If that doesn't solve your problem, we have a bug. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
--- 1,7 ! three ! ducks ! swim ! in ! a little ! pond des@flood ~% diff -u old new --- old Sun Mar 11 03:07:31 2001 +++ new Sun Mar 11 03:08:08 2001 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -the +three +ducks +swim +in +a little -horse -jumped -over -the -fence +pond DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was at the time - socketpair(2) had totally slipped my mind ;) Umm, you want pipe(2), not socketpair(2). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: httpfs

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 04:53:34PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was at the time - socketpair(2) had totally slipped my mind ;) Umm, you want pipe(2), not socketpair(2). Actually, I want

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
way around, actually (we increased KVM space from 256 MB to 1 GB - not 2 GB as you claim). And the problem with legacy BSDI binaries (newer ones don't have this problem) was fixed a long time ago, in 3.0 (before 3.0-RELEASE). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Debuging kernel crashes

2001-03-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
and committing them. 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 panic

2001-03-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could take a look at www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html and provide a bit more details about that crash; at the very least, a 'where' or 'bt' would be useful. That, and a dmesg, or at least uname -a. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

gcc -O bug

2001-04-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
|## 2446 22 |## 500 23 |## 326 DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /* * Copyright (c) 2001 ThinkSec AS. All rights reserved. * * $ThinkSec$ */ #include err.h #include time.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h static int accepted

Re: Fetching an index of an FTP site using fetch...

2001-05-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
and libfetch, and it seems like there's some stub code that hasn't been flushed out completely. Anyone know of any plans to finish this up? Feel free to send patches :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: FPU exception, kernel panic

2001-05-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
of the instruction which caused this exception, right ? Possibly. I'm not very familiar with the FPU. 3. If yes, how do I translate this 48 bit address in a linear address which gdb can understand ? You don't. FreeBSD uses a flat address space, you can disregard the segment descriptor. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: squeeze freeBSDs' kernel size

2001-05-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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Re: Getting peer credentials on a unix domain socket

2001-05-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
no longer root. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
a message when it omits printing an opaque variable. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a good reason why sysctl(8) won't display _any_ output for opaque MIB entries named as arguments? Yes it will, with -X. The interesting question is why there isn't an option to make it display

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 07 May 2001 18:51:22 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Yes it will, with -X. The interesting question is why there isn't an option to make it display just one variable in hex, and why it doesn't print a message when it omits printing an opaque

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about e.g. 'sysctl -a hw', which still shows *all* MIB's? At least on ref5 as of this very moment.. Yes, because '-a' means 'show all non-opaque' and 'hw' is ignored. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:52:15PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about e.g. 'sysctl -a hw', which still shows *all* MIB's? Yes, because '-a' means 'show all non-opaque' and 'hw' is ignored. OK, so I

Re: FPU exception, kernel panic

2001-05-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
- you'd see the kernel stack getting smashed, not an FPU exception. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
intuitive to me and Peter at least. :-) Maybe so, but I've always thought -A and -X were *counter*intuitive, and the current behaviour of 'sysctl foo' where foo is the name of an opaque variable is, to say the least, surprising. Adding the -x option makes it slightly less so. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: Tuning, security, firewall man pages up for review

2001-05-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/tuning.html In the kernel config tuning section, you've misspelt NSFBUFS as NFSBUFS, which doesn't exist. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Every time I tease my housemate's cat with a laser pointer, I am violating a US patent. (No, really.) I need to get a laser pointer... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kevin Way [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just ordered a spare machine a few days ago. I'll install -CURRENT on it, and start the integration. I've been needing something to keep myself out of trouble. That's our new slogan: FreeBSD - keeping kids off the street DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav

Re: modified natd again

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Urban Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another strange thing is that when I try to use tcpdump it doesn´t show all packets. No packets are dropped by kernel but tcpdump have received packets but don´t show them. Could this in some way be related. Use the -n option. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: strangeness in web interface of send-pr

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. They are set by the submitter and rarely if ever changed by committers, and are usually far more indicative of the submitter's state of mind than of the PR's importance. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: Article Network performance by OS

2001-06-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
it back on. If you're not happy with that, put 'hw.ata.wc=0' in your /boot/loader.conf and they'll be off after the next reboot. Or get real disks. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
or fold. Talk about bait-and-switch! It's for this reason, by the way, that the LGPL has been renamed from Library GPL to Lesser GPL. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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Re: Your new web site

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David Preece [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone close enough to drive round and have a quiet word? Netiquette for instance. Or asking for trouble. Or lookity shiny new baseball bat? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: real time

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
effectively got a {BSD,MIT,Apache} license (except for a few details about attributions and the naming of derivative software), and you might as well make the change in name as well as in function. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mike's patch is a style cleanup with no functional impact except plugging a memory leak, I feel it's better to commit it first, and merge in Alexey's patch later, after it's been reviewed by this forum. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
at the kernel level, and as others have stated before in a different context, driver source does not constitute adequate documentation. It helps, but it's neither sufficient nor necessary. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. A 3.x driver *could* be ported forward to 4.x and 5.x, but the required changes are not trivial (newbus, SMPng...) and you'd still need sample boards for testing and debugging, and docs for reference when you don't understand what the existing driver is trying to do. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
'. You'll be surprised... 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 happens to a connection between a select and accept...

2001-06-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
of nasty bugs and problems. There was one in FreeBSD too. It's been fixed; accept(2) will return -1 and set errno to ECONNABORTED, which you'd know if you'd RTFM. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: What happens to a connection between a select and accept...

2001-06-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
queue. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: fastforwarding?

2001-06-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
. The packet flows directly from one layer2 input routine directly to the opposing layer2 output routine without traversing the IP layer. And more importantly, without traversing ipfw or ipfilter. In other words, don't use this on a firewall. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PEACE - Portable Executable win32 API Compatible Environment.

2000-09-18 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
to NetBSD native system call. What is the difference between PEACE and WINE? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: virtual console 'snapshot'?

2000-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
that, the only ugliness is the need to fondle syscons' privates. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: finding source to functions

2000-10-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Marc Tardif [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I find the source to specific functions in /usr/src/sys? URL:http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: finding source to functions

2000-10-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
has paid off :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: XFreeBSD Install - 4.1-RELEASE #:0 Fri Jul 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
expect 4.2 will as well. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 4.1-stable crash.

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
--- #0 0xc0132df8 in boot () (kgdb) where #0 0xc0132df8 in boot () Cannot access memory at address 0xce51d9b8. (kgdb) This probably means the panic was in a KLD. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
somewhere?). You might want to look at src/sys/i386/isa/if_rdp.c instead. And yes, dl is available, though there's a header file called if_dl.h; if your driver needs its own header file, call it if_dlreg.h. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: 4.1-stable crash.

2000-10-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
FengYue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3 Oct 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: - panic messages: - --- - Where are the panic messages? Unfortunately, there is no panic messages. I compiled the kernel with -g (without DDB), and set the dumpdev in rc.conf. Did I do anything wrong

I'm convinced 'gcc' is meant to be pronounced 'ARRRRGGGHHH!'

2000-10-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Will someone please inform the gcc developers of the last decade's advances in C standardization? Yes, Virginia, ISO C (it's not ISO C any more, and hasn't been since 1989) does support 'long long' and the 'll' format. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: I'm convinced 'gcc' is meant to be pronounced 'ARRRRGGGHHH!'

2000-10-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
) on December 16th, 1999, but gcc still seems to live in 1989-land. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
James Housley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe a correct and true statement is "FreeBSD is a direct decendant of Unix(TM). Based on the BSD sources" I don't think there's all that much left of the original BSD sources... at least not in the kernel. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgra

Re: Kernel calls, are they documented somewhere?

2000-11-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
(2) returned 2, which is ENOENT, i.e. the file didn't exist). If it succeeded, the value returned is the result (a file descriptor in open(2)'s case). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: Mounting a md as a root filesystem.

2000-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Josef Karthauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # load -t md /filesystemfile Shouldn't that be 'load -t md_root'? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: iowait CPU state

2000-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ch a state? It has several, depending on the type of I/O the process is waiting for: biord (waiting for a read operation to complete), biowr (waiting for a write operation to complete), select (waiting for descriptors to become readable / writable), etc. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: Help writing a screen saver module

2000-11-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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Re: iowait CPU state

2000-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
void [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any reason top couldn't add these up and report a %iowait like Solaris'? Yes. It would conceal valuable information. Do the adding up in your head. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Jessem. Amazing what people will do to evade killfiles. Plonk. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Couple of config questions...

2000-11-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
r messages, with timestamps, to various log files located in /var/log (most prominently /var/log/messages) as specified in /etc/syslogd.conf. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
this case, the hype that an Internet year is only a few weeks of wallclock time. I'm sure there must be some meaning to what you write, but it keeps eluding me. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: pipe

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
an address to the function. I don't get it... What address? I want it to allocate memory for me and tell me its address. How am I supposed to know what address is available??? Did you even read the man page? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: nslookup deprecation [was 4.2 complaint]

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Brandon Fosdick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: "Recently"? nslookup has been officially deprecated for about a year and a half, I believe. Will a replacement be added to the base distro? When? 1) nslookup is still in the base FreeBSD distribution, and will

Re: pipe

2000-12-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"G. Adam Stanislav" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Did you even read the man page? Many times, actually. And on different days, too. :) No, you didn't. You probably read the first line, then your eyes glazed over and y

Re: pipe

2000-12-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"G. Adam Stanislav" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:11:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: The second and third sentences of the second paragraph (the one that starts on line 23), as well as the entire eighth paragraph (that starts on line 45), address the

Re: free() not freing pagedirs pages.

2000-12-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
(or was it /dev/null?) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: free() not freing pagedirs pages.

2000-12-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remy Nonnenmacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I may think using this solution if it remains portable between Unixes. It's perfectly portable, with one small variation - on BSD systems, you pass -1 instead of a file descriptor, while on SysV

Re: Kernel question (detecting a user log-on)

2000-12-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
if a user logged on? I'm pretty unsure about this.. Why don't you tell us what you want to do, instead of how you think it must be done? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: eye-candy hack - warp_saver changing direction :)

2000-12-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
is called to do its dance.. kern.* is not the right place for this. It should go in user.*, unless that is reserved for userland, in which case a subtree of kern.* is probably the Right Thing. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: eye-candy hack - warp_saver changing direction :)

2000-12-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
s/sysctl.h. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
(724 in your case - closest primes are 719 and 727), create that many bucket directories, and place each user in bucket ID mod K. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
an odd (and preferably prime) stripe size on RAIDs to (amongst other reasons) avoid having all the superblock backups end up on the same disk. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: ata weirdness

2000-12-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ta0-master: ata_command: identify failed ad2: 39082MB Maxtor 54098U8 [79406/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 snip I bet your CD-ROM is incorrectly configured as master. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: keeping lots of systems all the same...

2000-12-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Netscape and StarOffice at the same time, 128MB isn't enough. Sigh. Avoid StarOffice like the plague. It's neat, but it leaks like a sieve, and barely crawls along on my 450 MHz K6-2. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: Supporting VirtualPC...

2000-12-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
ctly sets cpu_vendor to "ConnectixCPU" (rather than e.g. "GenuineIntel" or "AuthenticAMD") you can just check against that. It's declared in machine/md_var.h. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Supporting VirtualPC...

2000-12-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
cpu_is_vpc; #endif and not break anyone's heart? No. Check cpu_vendor at probe/attach time and set a flag in the interface's softc that indicates that it needs to be treated as a VPC emulated interface. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
can write a program exactly like another, if you can prove you never saw the other program. If you saw the similar program you are dirty. ATT (or Novell, don't remember if it was before or after the sale of USL) tried to use that argument against UCB. It was rejected. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgra

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
if the directory exists; make sure to differentiate between "somebody already holds the lock" and "the lock can't be created due to permission errors or some other problem" by examining $!) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Volker Stolz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: What are you guys smoking? *shrug* Can you spell "event-driven"? There are ways to do things much more elegantly today (see all the references to kevent()). I cho

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:44:34PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Volker Stolz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:35:08PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: What are you guys smoking? *shrug* Can you spell "event-d

Re: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...

2001-01-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
and 3.2-RELEASE CD sets had the "waiter beastie" graphic (the one on 3.1 had no tail!), but by 3.3 WC had reverted to Hosokawa-san's "beastie coming out of a CD" artwork. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: *Help* Limits on FreeBSD

2001-01-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
told me to store these limits (above) in a etc/sysctl.conf file but when I went to etc that file wasn't in there .. do I have to newly create the file or should it already be there? 'man sysctl.conf' DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...

2001-01-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Penguin mascot has enough advantages over Chuck already ! Then why do I get this urge to go bowling every time I see Tux? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

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