On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:42:58AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
I mean, Warner- you're right, but, well, I've been using tar to copy systems
for the last 5 years for *BSD, and, well, it really works best for me.
But you're replying to a call for advice -- you did not prefix your
advice that it
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:29:23PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Most of the work should be done using async mounts, or
IT DOES. Terry please read the code...
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:02:06AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:29:23PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Most of the work should be done using async mounts, or
IT DOES. Terry please read the code...
David: please install 4.3 --R E L E
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:40:27PM +0200, Carlo Dapor wrote:
I stumbled over an inconsistency with the data types wchar_t and wint_t.
My machine is a FreeBSD-5.0 current as of July 8th, 2001.
I thought these were fixed.
I'll look into it.
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:47:26PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
+ Allow one to specify the partition letter, than assumeing `e'.
+ Allow one to specify the ordering of partitions that will be written.
Alpha users keep getting bit in the ass because sysinstall orders the
swap
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
1)Soft Updates enabled on a root partition.
This comes back to the old you can't turn SU
on or off, except via tunefs. So even if you
boot via CDROM, it's too late, if the CDROM
kernel supports SU,
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:14:51AM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
hi, there!
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote:
3)The default in 4.3-RELEASE is to have the IDE
write caching off.
If you submit a patch to add the proper entries to /boot/loader.conf in
the MFSROOT image
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:19:24PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
David O'Brien wrote:
1)Soft Updates enabled on a root partition.
This comes back to the old you can't turn SU
on or off, except via tunefs. So even if you
boot via CDROM, it's too late
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:06:07PM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote:
On Jul 12, Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl might be superior in features at first glance but it has
serious deficiencies in the resulting code style, due to it's nature it
not simply enables programmers to do
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:45:31PM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote:
box. It's a nice 1U chasssis with four (4!) hot-swap drive bays and the
Tyan Athlon MP motherboard. http://www.appro.com/1124/index.html
Can anybody please:
1. Confirm that this works fine with FBSD (I assume it does,
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:09:22AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I have stumbled across a linux emulation bug in freebsd. Below
is the program that returns different results based on FreeBSD,
Linux or Linux emulation under FreeBSD.
...
Running natively under Linux:
x = 53.278500
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
Dima and /me recently started weeding out white space at end of line for
the man pages. I want to widen the weeding to include as much files as
possible under /usr/src.
Please do not do this to the .[ch] files. It makes diffs
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:32:59PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
..., and wasted bandwidth from those cvsuping the changes.
My cvsup of the repository took
~4 times as long when the changes were made to the man pages.
*sigh* Are we now a hostage to CVSup times? Put it in cron and do it at
3am
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:10:56PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote:
Just doing the disklabel -w -r followed by the disklabel -B is creating
a dangerously dedicated disk,
Actually this is a "fully dedicated" disk. (made to look like a 50MB or
so disk to M$ products)
Sysinstall is used to create a
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:24:17PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
I think that the days of the 'dangerously dedicated partition' are
numbered.
Not quite. We don't do slices on the Alpha -- in fact our slice code
royally screws the Alpha users as it isn't nicely layered and thus hard
to
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:12:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
I would be quite interested. But do we have the resouces and the man-hours
to handle IA-64/KA-64/PPC/Alpha/StrongARM at the same time?
Agreed.
Perhaps the first step would be to start a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailing list?
Then
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:14:10PM -0800, Devin Butterfield wrote:
Well, if there are enough people with PCC's that are interested in
helping with the effort then perhaps pursuing the PPC port first would
make more sense. I don't have a PPC so I couldn't help out there...
There is a PowerPC
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:56:58PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
many people) My understanding is that FreeBSD *wants* a FreeBSD/ARM,
but lack the resources/man-power to do so. I'd prefer to see an
official decision on the above by someone (hint hint -core :)) though.
Why are you looking to
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:13:32PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
May be people who know more about gcc will explain this
better but I will speculate in any case! Assuming that 16
...
But I still question this optimization. Are there any stats
on whether this 16 byte aligning improves
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
/* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */
if (data) vs. free(data)
free(data);
Actually from an optimization standpoint, #1 can be worse (ie, harder on
the processor).
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:26:01PM -0800, Devin Butterfield wrote:
I don't think that "everyone" had reached any such agreement. It would
seem to me that there is sufficient interest in FreeBSD/StrongARM that
There is more than sufficient *interest* in FreeBSD/sparc, but that
hasn't gotten
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:03:48AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 December 2000 at 16:01:52 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
/* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */
if (data) vs
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:40:22PM -0800, SteveB wrote:
I don't have a lot of time, but I would volunteer if there was a QA
project.
Good QA takes time.
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On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:28:36AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
isn't coming to the forefront: commercial companies have formal QA staff
because their development staff either can't or won't do the QA themselves.
I would not agree with that at all. Commercial companies have format QA
because it
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 04:14:20PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
it's not possible to just set a bit and make it work with, say, a 3C875J
card,
You sure? The PC164 that was Beast.freebsd.org had an 875 card:
sym0: 875 port 0x1-0x100ff mem 0x8201-0x82010fff,0x82011000-0x820110ff irq 0
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:28:07PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Incorrect..the problems with SSH come down to flaws in the human
operator who ignore the warnings SSH gives them, and tell it
explicitly to do insecure things like connect to a server which is
suddenly not the one you're used to
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 06:34:09PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
No, in several particulars. "The FreeBSD Project" doesn't change the SSH
keys on the FreeBSD.org machines.
Not changed for change sake, but failure to do anything to preserve them.
David has probably been drinking too much; it's
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 08:29:01PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Umm, are you actually talking about real incidents here, or just
spreading FUD?
REAL incidents. Please remember I've been a committer longer you have.
The last two times a freebsd.org host key has been changed, that I am
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:37AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
P.S. Please stop dropping the mailing list from the CC list of your
responses..
Thank you for taking away my right to take a discussion private, and
posting my *private* response to a public mailing list.
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
Are you saying that the original SSH Public Keys for the servers
were always sent in the clear, without PGP signature or anything?
David was saying that, but he's wrong.
How I enjoy when someone tries to put words in my mouth.
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:07:49AM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
I thought the space staked out by the *BSD gang was approximately
this:
NetBSD - the least amount of platform-specific code possible; run
on most anything
OpenBSD - pro-active security, bullet-proof from attacks
FreeBSD
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:19:56AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
1) Can a native binary dlopen a Linux ELF GL, yes or no?
No. The linux compatbility is through the image activator. The syscalls
have to be translated, otherwise if you were running as root and loaded a
linux lib into a freebsd
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:01:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Replying to myself, I just tried hacking audio/tclmidi to use and
require lang/gcc295, and it does not build with the gcc295 port.
There is also the lang/gcc32, lang/gcc31, lang/gcc30 compilers. :-)
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:18:59PM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote:
I was browsing over the boot0 makefiles and source when I was playing with
some boot sector code of mine and I was wondering why the designers chose
to use objcopy to output a binary file instead of just using the --oformat
option
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
David also has patches for debugging support at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse/dbg/
Unless David Xu completes full FSF paper work, we can't use his patches.
Using them tants us forever in getting stock GDB to support our
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:48:17PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:27:08PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
Doug Rabson also has basic TLS support working in perforce.
What platforms? My understanding was that new binutils and gcc was
needed for sparc64 at a
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:20:28AM -0600, Kevin Lyons wrote:
FreeBSD - does not work (they knew better and renamed tcsh csh rather
than just calling a spade a spade, some commit bit vandal got a hair to
rename parts of the world for the sake of mankind.)
That would be me.
1. Why don't you
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:55:43PM -0800, Avleen Vig wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:11:22AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
Personally I am of the opinion that csh (all versions) should be
removed completely from the base system and relegated entirely to the
ports system. Other than
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:03:34AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
I often missed features in FreeBSD ash that Solaris /bin/sh had, such as
using ^ sign as an | alternative (in germany one often has to search
the | key on bad configured terminals, which was not uncommon in field
service).
That
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:42:55PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
I just heard back from some people still onsite. The ISP driver
booted with everything the same except hw.physmem=2g works. It's a
memory issue.
Try hw.physmem=4g. It should be the 4GB boundary, not 2GB boundary that
is causing
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:42:22AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
Wilko Bulte wrote:
Maybe I'm just plain dim today (I will add a beer to rectify this situation
at first convenience..) but what is so bad about some trailing whitespace
that a massive commit-a-thlon is called for?
just
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/
Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable -current.
This box, a P2/266 has a 30G IDE disk.
What I did is create
ad0s1 - 256MB - holds root for
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
Now, remember that during the boot-up process, the boot0 code requires
that the partition to boot from be the first partition in the slice.
The boot1 code assumes that the partition to boot from is labelled
partition a. So,
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:54:54PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
This indeed fixed it. I always though Unix^WFreeBSD was supposed to allow
you to shoot yourself in the foot. sysinstall obviously decided it needed
to outsmart me.
Not so much out smart you, but the code that maps da0a to da0sXa is
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:39:18PM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #271: Sun Jul 22 08:36:22 EDT 2001
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/users/spotvin/work/FreeBSD/src/sys/arm/
compile/NETWINDER
..snip..
I'll try to post my work next weekend so people could have a
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:49:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
Strongarm-based pcs designed by Chalice Technologies http://www.chaltech.com
are available from Simtek http://www.simtec.co.uk/
This brings up the issue of reference platform for the StrongARM port.
There is no one clear choice as
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
where can i get those platforms in europe (germany)?
No clue.
have you got a contact at dec?
Dried up.
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I'd like to apply this patch to pkg_add which reduces the amount of code
the compiler generates, and improves the clarity of the code.
1. s_strl* is obvious some form of safe strl{cpy,cat}. But *WHAT*
does it make safe? Isn't obvious w/o having to track down the
s_strl{cat,cpy} function
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:59:17PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
1. s_strl* is obvious some form of safe strl{cpy,cat}. But *WHAT*
does it make safe? Isn't obvious w/o having to track down the
s_strl{cat,cpy} function definitions.
I now think these should be macros which do the
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:26:06AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jul 31), Dima Dorfman said:
Does anybody know (remember?) why portmap_enable (the rc.conf knob)
wasn't renamed to rpcbind_enable when portmap became rpcbind? It
seems odd to have a knob called portmap_enable
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:12:25PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
I used a library which also needed -lstdc++.
Now that I did not need them any more I removed them and was
surprised that the resulting FreeBSD binary actually got bigger!
On NetBSD the binary is slightly smaller as expected.
Is
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:29:39PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote:
Kent, my point is that the manual page should specify this. I think
that's the point the original poster was trying to make once he was
told.
Well, either of you two submit a diff to the manpage and I'll commit it.
It really isn't
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:18:57PM -0700, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
Since when does any self-respecting compiler dictate object format? It's
brain-damage for a compiler to screw with the object format--so much for
If you have ever programmed in Ada, you would understand. Since I
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 05:25:42PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
It's like trying to find something in hierachically organized
GNU info documentation: redundancy is useful, and try to
find __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ in the gcc documentation, when
you need to read the man page carefully to find the
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:18:27AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
There has been talk of a make and mount command for md that would
work like mount_md, but it doesn't appear to have materialized
yet.
man mdmfs
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When compiling the `dict' port, one gets:
In file included from /usr/include/machine/signal.h:54,
from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:178,
from /usr/include/signal.h:44,
from dict.h:33,
from clientparse.y:25:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:16:54AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
+ execlp(strip, strip, -s, -R, .comment,
+-R, .note, -N, gcc2_compiled,
Getting rid of .note[.ABI-tag] will interfere with ELF branding.
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:40:07AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Getting rid of .note[.ABI-tag] will interfere with ELF branding.
How will it do so?
This is the ELF ABI standard-approved way of doing ELF branding:
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name TypeAddr OffSize
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:25:41AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
sigh; I want a working .iso to test the booting issue that plagued us
make NODOC=YES ?
I know that's not the real answer.
Nope. We need an RC to test -- this means as close to the real release
as we can get.
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:01:39AM +0100, Steve Roome wrote:
How exactly should functions work in assembly, afaict, the
following C :
void printasint(int p) { printf (print this %d\n, (int)p);}
Why not just ask the compiler??
$ cc -S -O0 printasint.c
$ cat printasint.s
.file
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:21:35PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
openjade is a descendent of jade (I don't think jade is being developed
anymore). For some reason, jade has some problems running on the Alpha.
I asked nik once why we don't just use openjade for everything...I think
the answer
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 09:53:21AM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote:
BSD/OS already has daemon(8) for years that just runs daemon(3).
I don't think it is necessary to change nohup, and go with the way BSD/OS
did it.
The BSD/OS 4.1 code is also available for us to take this utility from.
To
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 07:33:35PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 16:03:02, roam (Peter Pentchev) wrote about Re: function
calls/rets in assembly:
I wonder if a mentioning of -mpreferred-stack-boundary should be
added to tuning(7)..
This will be quite strange
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:20:16AM -0500, Steve Ames wrote:
Except it isn't tcsh specific really.
Our config.h in /usr/src/bin/csh defines SYSMALLOC. The port does not.
The port works, the system version doesn't. If you comment out SYSMALLOC
in /usr/src/bin/csh/config.h and recompile then
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:21:34PM -0500, Steven Ames wrote:
That (I think?) makes this a tcsh bug. I'll submit a problem report to
Christos
Much appreciated.
(anyone have his address? Not readily findable at www.tcsh.org).
$ grep @ /usr/src/contrib/tcsh/*
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:21:34PM -0500, Steven Ames wrote:
In the interim (before he has a chance to look over the problem and
offer a correction) would it be possible to stop defining SYSMALLOC?
Could you build tcsh from /usr/src with -g (and make sure not to strip
the binary when you
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:36:28PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Export a copy of the current tcsh code from contrib/tcsh, apply the
patch, and vendor import the entire thing with an appropriate tag (tag
style varies by contributed package, but I usually use something like
PLEASE properly configure your editor to 80 column lines. I see you use
Mutt -- I know this can be done.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:33:39PM -0400, Benjamin Gross wrote:
I'm trying to run a prg written in c++ (gcc v3.0) that was successfully
compiled and linked on a FreeBSD 4.4 system. I
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:21:09PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote:
ping http://www.myserver.wherever/
instead of telnet wherever 80, just to see if I get a connected or
not ?
Do you have *ANY* clue how ping works? Ping uses ICMP packets; not TCP,
not UDP -- thus there is NO concept of ports.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:58:21AM -0700, Richard Hodges wrote:
On the other hand, what exactly is http://www.ufp.org supposed to be useful
for when www.ufp.org is the same thing.
Why not parse it literally? For instance, http://www.ufp.org
would imply TCP, dest port 80, and host
Hi Hackers, et.al.
The PIM Evolution, http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/,
does not run on FreeBSD. The authors have made a change so that it will.
However, we would like to know if FreeBSD is the odd-man-out, or if the
authors were lucky Evolution ran on Solaris and Linux.
-
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:11:46PM +, Kevin Way wrote:
I don't see any reason to force the boot order to be maintained. As long
as the dependancies are set correctly, i'd think the boot order would be
determined solely by the output of rcorder.
Correct.
What am I missing?
Nothing.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:16:31AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Anyone else think this patch from NetBSD is worthwhile?
As JDP said, YES!.
--- /dev/null Sat Sep 1 01:13:34 2001
+++ zopen.c Sat Sep 1 01:10:14 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Public domain stdio wrapper for libz, written
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too.
There are at least two major problems with VIA chips:
[data curruption on VIA
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:04:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
--- /dev/null Sat Sep 1 01:13:34 2001
+++ zopen.c Sat Sep 1 01:10:14 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Public domain stdio wrapper for libz
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:33:55PM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
known-bad revision for these babies -, and the 762 North Bridge of the
soon to be there SMP Athlon)
Soon to be there?? Hum... I'm typing to you from one.
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file: /home/ncvs/src/contrib/gcc.295/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.12
diff -u -r1.1.1.12 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog 2001/03/19 19:46:16 1.1.1.12
+++ ChangeLog 2001/08/30 21:05:19
@@ -1,3 +1,160 @@
+2001-08-29 David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+
+ * config/alpha/crtbegin.asm
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:40:01AM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:33:55PM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
known-bad revision for these babies -, and the 762 North Bridge of the
soon to be there SMP Athlon)
Soon to be there?? Hum... I'm typing to you from
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:04:16PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
So this represents my most significant effort to date to fix something
in C. It took me far too long to identify where the one line fix needed
to go and even longer to figure out how to do it in C.
Here's the problem that this
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:05:01PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
'disklabel -B ad0' as root, where 'ad0' is the disk that boots FreeBSD
Isn't `disklable -B ad0sX' more proper? (especially if the disk has
multiple FreeBSD slices)
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:23:44PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
E.g., will the following structure:
struct foo {
};
contain alignment holes in any architecture/compiler?
It is best to order this from largest to smallest size if you are worried
about alignment holes, etc.
int64_t d; /*
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:13:58PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David O'Brien writes:
: It is best to order this from largest to smallest size if you are worried
: about alignment holes, etc.
:
: int64_t d; /* 8-byte boundary */
: int32_t c; /* 4-byte
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:45:36PM -0700, glenn gombert wrote:
Does anyone know what version of XFree86 that is going to be released
with FreeBSD 4.4 this weekend??
3.3.7.
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:42:23PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
We're still waiting for 4.0's support footprint to widen
a bit more before subjecting people to it by default. Hopefully
by 4.5.
Are you really considering using XFree86 4.x in FreeBSD-4.5?
When I asked you about this in the
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:05:27PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:42:23PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
We're still waiting for 4.0's support footprint to widen
a bit more before subjecting people to it by default. Hopefully
by 4.5
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 06:35:27AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
Especially the empty line after the copyright message:
Agreed.
__FBSDID($FreeBSD: src/lib/libatm/atm_addr.c,v 1.6 2001/09/15 19:36:55 dillon Exp
$);
What about changing this to __FBSD(), which is what I was using in a
prototype
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:56:08AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
what kind of issues ? I'm using both XFree86-4 and ports in package form
(pre-compiled stuffs) w/o any problems.
Please RTF /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and look at what XFREE86_VERSION
does.
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:29:59PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
I've prepared a status report about this project. the xml file in
attachment have to be reviewed since I've just put descriptions
from FreeBSD-rc's Yahoo! Group and your email message.
WHY in the world are you sending in a
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:47:53PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Your rcorder patch is incorrect.
Here's a correct patch. Does anybody mind if I commit this and
connect rcorder(8) to the build?
YES I MIND!! What part of it is on the
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:21:33AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
Almost. The '2' there is a multiplier on (I think) %eax, so it uses
'ebx + 2 * eax + 0xe90' for the memory address. Either that or 'eax +
2 * ebx + 0xe90'. Check the gas info page for the ATT syntax to
figure out exactly which.
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:26:22AM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
Just to clarify. This is still a POLA violation. If a log file is
pulled out from underneath syslogd(8), one wouldn't expect it to start
logging again, even if the file was re-created.
I disagree, if the file was re-created.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:40:34PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
By using the rename/create/signal approach, syslogd is
guaranteed to log new messages to the old file, despite the
rename, until signalled to close and reopen the file (or a
new file of another name, if syslog.conf is changed).
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:42:19AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:35:35AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
No muss, no fuss. So where is the race?
Mike had the only justification so far -- that of permissions of the
file.
Think
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 04:16:36PM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote:
Koster, K.J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am fully aware that -hackers is not the right forum for this discussion,
and I apologise for the noise. I tried the appropriate mailing lists first
and got ignored. You are the second
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:41:25PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
The problem is that you cant *not* get dangerously-dedicated mode. Our
boot1 has got a dangerously-dedicated fdisk table unconditionally compiled
in. You can fix it so that it doesn't crash stuff, but we still shouldn't
be forcing
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:48:12AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote:
hi.. no offense... but Tyan motherboards are the one
which cause the whole problem...
What are you talking about? Tyan Thunder/Tigger boards work
*beautifully*.
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM +, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
How about adding the nodump flag processing in tar?
This would be a *bad* idea. It would diverge our tar even more than it
already is -- which is so bad it isn't trival to update to the latest
version (ours is many years
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:19:25PM -0500, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
I thought it was normal process for a new FreeBSD mailing list to be
hosted on another site until it was deemed beneficial to have @FreeBSD.org
host it.
Nope.
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:30:25PM +, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
Does it mean we can't modify the BSD tar because it's already too
different from the GNU tar, but at the same time we don't upgrade to
the new GNU tar because it might require too much work adapting the
old mods to the new
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is
Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star
developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken.
Star is GLP'ed software. Thus
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