On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:58:08PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
Lets help these people out. How about adding this to 3.3's RELEASE notes
and a pointer from our website? (maybe also
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html)
If you can give me text, I'll mark it up and add it.
N
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-hackers,
Could someone who knows write/writev(2) take a quick look at docs/10512.
In essence, writev(2) can fail with ENOBUFS if (and I quote from the PR)
if you exhaust writev'able buffer space. This doesn't mean a great
deal to me, and I'm hoping one of you can take a look at come up with a
-hackers,
In the kernel config file you can use symbolic names for the various
COM ports, IO_COM1, IO_COM2, and so on.
These seem be defined in sys/isa/isareg.h.
If you want to configure FreeBSD to boot from a serial console you have
to set BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT in /etc/make.conf -- you can't
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:58:08PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
Lets help these people out. How about adding this to 3.3's RELEASE notes
and a pointer from our website? (maybe also
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html)
If you can give me text, I'll mark it up and add it.
N
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On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:47:15PM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting.
Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user
channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The
possibilities are endless ...
A freebsd
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:47:15PM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting.
Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user
channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The
possibilities are endless ...
A freebsd
Hi chaps,
Not entirely sure which list to post this too, so I figured that -hackers
was probably most appropriate.
Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at
http://www.inter-mezzo.org/
It's main claim to fame is that it allows disconnected operation. For
example, you
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:36:48PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
For LDAP to be seamlessly integrated into the system some of the libraries
have to be changed. Specifically the ones dealing with /etc/passwd and
user information.
...
I haven't seen him post to this thread yet, but you might
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:36:48PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
For LDAP to be seamlessly integrated into the system some of the libraries
have to be changed. Specifically the ones dealing with /etc/passwd and
user information.
...
I haven't seen him post to this thread yet, but you might
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 01:22:49PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
talking about the recent paper on using KLDs to replace FreeBSD syscalls
I would suggest that a version of this document be incorporated into our
docs.
I've already e-mailed the people concerned to ask. I'll let you know
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:22:47PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
Tim Singletary has written some man pages for the dbm_* functions in libc,
which are currently undocumented -- we know they are written in terms
of dbopen(), but it's nice to have them documented anyway.
Could anyone who knows
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
Ok, I will be more specific.
Under FreeBSD-STABLE *AND* FreeBSD-CURRENT, FreeBSD allocates metadata
structures that scale to the amount of swap space assigned to the system.
However, it is not *precisely* the
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:59:58 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
With that in mind, how about this patch (in conjunction with the patch to
login.conf in the original PR, which just updates a comment)?
This looks much better
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 01:22:49PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
talking about the recent paper on using KLDs to replace FreeBSD syscalls
I would suggest that a version of this document be incorporated into our
docs.
I've already e-mailed the people concerned to ask. I'll let you know what
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:22:47PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
Tim Singletary has written some man pages for the dbm_* functions in libc,
which are currently undocumented -- we know they are written in terms
of dbopen(), but it's nice to have them documented anyway.
Could anyone who knows
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
Ok, I will be more specific.
Under FreeBSD-STABLE *AND* FreeBSD-CURRENT, FreeBSD allocates metadata
structures that scale to the amount of swap space assigned to the system.
However, it is not *precisely* the
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:59:58 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
With that in mind, how about this patch (in conjunction with the patch to
login.conf in the original PR, which just updates a comment)?
This looks much better
-hackers,
Tim Singletary has written some man pages for the dbm_* functions in libc,
which are currently undocumented -- we know they are written in terms
of dbopen(), but it's nice to have them documented anyway.
Could anyone who knows anything about DBM take a look at docs/12557 and
let me
Sheldon,
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:23:06AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
I have done. As far as I can tell, the submitter is saying Yes, the
information I was looking for was in the manual page, but it (specifically,
that the root account doesn't use the default entry) is buried as
a
-hackers,
Tim Singletary has written some man pages for the dbm_* functions in libc,
which are currently undocumented -- we know they are written in terms
of dbopen(), but it's nice to have them documented anyway.
Could anyone who knows anything about DBM take a look at docs/12557 and
let me
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
There are a couple of ways you could do it. Some of them more optimal
than others.
Executive summary: sgrep is probably your best choice now, which can
can be found
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:20:10PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
From time to time people ask questions about the serial console. As
README.serial is buried deep inside the kernel source tree, it's almost
time to have a decent text on the serial console in our handbook.
I am reformatting
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:06:26AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:56:17 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
I'm unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the login_cap system. Could
someone who is versed in it please take a look at this PR (text included)
and let me know whether
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
There are a couple of ways you could do it. Some of them more optimal
than others.
Executive summary: sgrep is probably your best choice now, which can
can be found
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:20:10PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
From time to time people ask questions about the serial console. As
README.serial is buried deep inside the kernel source tree, it's almost
time to have a decent text on the serial console in our handbook.
I am reformatting
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:06:26AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:56:17 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
I'm unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the login_cap system. Could
someone who is versed in it please take a look at this PR (text included)
and let me know whether
I've added d...@freebsd.org to the distribution list, for obvious reasons.
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:16:36PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
I'm in favor of the rtfm script. It's amazing the positive
things that come out of an offhand IRC comment.
Hi folks,
I'm unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the login_cap system. Could
someone who is versed in it please take a look at this PR (text included)
and let me know whether or not the suggested patch is correct.
Thanks,
N
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On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:06PM -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
Sorry it's taken me a while to reply to this; ironically, most of my time
has been spent on freebsd-doc recently.
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:03:59PM -0500, Constantine Shkolny wrote
Sorry it's taken me a while to reply to this; ironically, most of my time
has been spent on freebsd-doc recently.
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:03:59PM -0500, Constantine Shkolny wrote:
I've come to understanding that lack of documentation is probably one of
the factors that keep the system
Sorry it's taken me a while to reply to this; ironically, most of my time
has been spent on freebsd-doc recently.
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:03:59PM -0500, Constantine Shkolny wrote:
I've come to understanding that lack of documentation is probably one of
the factors that keep the system
Hi Chuck,
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:20:56PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
But one thing I like is, although FreeBSD *does* try to appease user
demands, it's controlled by programmers, not users, so if something is
a technically extemely evil idea, no matter how the masses yell for it,
it will
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 04:39:28PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
But Mark illustrates my point perfectly; developers don't write
documentation. That's what camp followers are for. So far, we have
the ones that whine about the loot and throw mud at us when we march
too slowly, but not enough
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:59:59AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
While we're on the init topic, is there any strong feeling here about
BSD /etc/rc* scripts Vs SysV ?
Yes, lots. The last round of discussion was covered in the freebsd-arch
mailing list, the archives should be enlightening.
N
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[ cc'd to -hackers for the archives, reply-to points back to me so that
this doesn't perpetuate on the list ]
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 11:24:11PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote:
I came on this list initially to just check was the FreeBSD community
was like,
Then you chose the wrong list.
As the web
Hi folks,
docs/11589 says that programs that include aio.h also need to include
sys/time.h.
I've had a chat with Terry Lambert, who wrote the aio_read.2 manual page,
who says
snip
And here is a section from the aio.h manual page (from the
Single UNIX Specification):
Inclusion of the
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 11:21:57PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
You guys should be aware that work is going on to change, in a rather
major way, not just the config file, not just the configuration method,
but the entire way that devices are detected and drivers added.
Is this documented
On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 07:27:57AM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
Cheers, committed.
Already? As the CVS tree (at least the one on
anoncvs.freebsd.org) has it, the so_cred changes haven't been
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 01:03:36PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 1999, Brian Feldman wrote:
Anyone for committing the so_cred changes? I've got the the pidentd changes
here, too.
I have also produced a patch against
doc/en/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml for this bump-up in
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 12:03:54AM -0500, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
How do people like to set up their filesystems these days? I've heard
of people who like one big fs (not generally usable anymore because of
the 1024 cyl limit), others who like the small root fs and one big fs
for everything
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 02:53:00PM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote:
Fun. Fun. Fun. I am trying to port some software to a system with
only gmake and the makefile uses bmake-style conditionals. Is there a good
way to convert the conditionals? Here is the offender:
Not sure. It might be simpler to
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On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:30:51PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
Matt Curtin wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 1999 10:25:21 -0400, Dennis den...@etinc.com said:
Dennis All software has bugs
TeX has no bugs.
TeX has no *known* bugs. To the best of my knowlege, even Dr.
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 08:07:41PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
Your XML aware web browser could then also read in these ATLL files and
do something useful with them too, *without you needing to convert them
to HTML first*. This is where the XML Style
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 08:10:32PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
xls and xml are markup languages which means you need an
engine to render -- they do solve very nicely the document
construct , or grammar and syntax.
Not strictly true. Although given the all the misinformed press hype
about XML
Julian (or anyone else on -hackers who can assist)
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 05:28:48PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
I admit that it doesn't seem a minor addition, but
I'd like ot get netgraph down -nto 3.x now that it has been shaken down a
bit in 4.x
Assuming this does go in, in time for
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