Re: Progress for 7.0 - the what's cooking page

2007-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
not work on SMP systems, including multi-core laptops. :-/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Reading CIS from kernel?

1999-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Mitchell writes: Ugh. In that case, can someone back out Poul-Henning's changes to the if_xe.c in the -STABLE tree? Uhm my change has not been applied to STABLE, but the 3.2-PAO import references current rather than stable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

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

1999-07-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The point was who the heck sends the SIGHUP and why ? Poul-Henning In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sheldon Hearn writes: [Hi-jacked from cvs-committers and cvs-all] On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:15:09 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: There is another one you may want to look at, I have not figured

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
psed. You are talking gibberish here. Please show code where this is a problem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Un

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ang to way past any time we'll be caring about. :-) But we cannot do time in seconds resolution, we need to resolve at least the cpu clock frequency, which right now is approaching 1GHz (30bit!) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "R

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
stacking layer (an NFS alternative), VOP's which would normally be handled by vfs_default have to be handled on the other end of the proxy, instead, in the same way that they would be handled by the vfs_default stuff. And what prevents you from taking over the default op ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that does know about it, to the vfs producer on machine 3 that also knows about it? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To U

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that there's any objection to the concept of mandatory locking. Too many of us have had wedged systems because of it I guess... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
' can be a lethal tool :-) Well, maybe you were more lucky, I've had my share of troubles, and I think the very concept stinks... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will t

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
stacking layer (an NFS alternative), VOP's which would normally be handled by vfs_default have to be handled on the other end of the proxy, instead, in the same way that they would be handled by the vfs_default stuff. And what prevents you from taking over the default op ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: HEADS UP Reviewers. VFS changes to be committed.

1999-08-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
er testing, before committing it. Erez. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."

Re: HEADS UP Reviewers. VFS changes to be committed.

1999-08-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred P erlstein writes: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Uhm, have any of you actually ever looked at src/sys/kern/vnode_if.src ? I can't really tell if you are commenting on the diffs I provided or if you are commmenting on the comments I have

Re: KAME IPv6 and freebsd

1999-08-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
;kern-developer" still have a sensible meaning ? (and for all the other reasons which made us move src/contrib/sys to src/sys/contrib) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- I

Re: KAME IPv6 and freebsd

1999-08-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
tories. Hmph. I guess common sense wins over ITAR in this case. :) That's certainly an improvement in that particular battle :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take

Re: TSC vs. I8254 (Was: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 mp_clock.c)

1999-09-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
If you have access to a frequency counter it could be interesting to measure the actual clockfrequency of the 14.318 MHz xtal in your machine... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop.&quo

Re: about jail

1999-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
one I've heard about. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer writes: You have to examine ALL fd's in case one has a directory open that is outside the chroot.. (see man fchdir(2)) We do. See source. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hacker

Re: chroot could chdir? (was Re: about jail)

1999-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer writes: I read it as her talking about chroot in general. We do. See source. :-) On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer writes: You have to examine ALL fd's in case one has a directory

Re: Finer-grained securelevel: proof of concept

1999-10-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
jail thing, but rather make them inheritable like other credentials, so the structure containing the stuff should hang of the proc structure, and hey wait, we already have this "struct ucred" hanging there. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. I agree, *IF* IPv6 ever becomes a reality, we will look at this. (2)What is the goal of the restriction? To isolate people in the jail from the "real" machine and from other jails. If physical level access protection is wanted, it isn't. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBS

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
no futher than OSI ever did. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
for a long time as well, until the government funded life-support was cut, then it evaporated overnight. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress go

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Bowden writes: -security stripped On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: :In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yoshinobu Inoue writes: :(2)What is the goal of the restriction? :To isolate people in the jail from the "real" machine and from :o

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
functionality to jail(2), my point is merely that until somebody who has sufficient time ability to fiddle with it does it, it's not going to happen. The usual rule applies: "Great idea, why don't you send me patches which does this ?" -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam mem

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in a same jail won't be necessariliy binded to a same address, but does it matters? Yes, that also matters, this is a administrative facility. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It

Re: Should jail treat ip-number?

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
name internally and, if A record is obtained, specify its address into "ip_number". if record is obtained, also specify its address into "ip6_number". Sure, this is trivial to do. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bumping libstdc++ version number

1999-11-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
bump, and therefore -core hereby gives David O'Brien permission to do so. for -core, Poul-Henning Kamp -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before pro

Re: ELF putting inode at the front of a file

1999-12-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
They die with the vnode which maybe still die to fast. Putting the inode with the data saves a little less than one diskaccess on average per file, which for truly random access filesystems is a good thing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IEEE-488: looking for junk :-)

2000-01-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
something they can test, but let me know if any of you have lists of wanted features. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

Re: IEEE-488: looking for junk :-)

2000-01-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Ray Hyatt Jr." writes: Are you interested in external floppy drives with that type of bus? Not really. The intent of the driver is to interface to ascii based test/lab equipment, not to apply for membership in the antique hardware society :-) -- Po

Re: IBM releases JFS for Linux.

2000-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the AIX version was so hard to port that OSF eventually had to give up trying. It was rather closely married to the VM hardware on the Power CPU. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop.&quo

Re: NETGRAPH (proposal. FINAL)

2000-02-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with ENOCANDO ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Re: splFoo() question

2000-03-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
expensive. They only need protection against the card itself, not against the entire system. It just seems to be an overly large hammer. I miss this too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop.&quo

Re: splFoo() question

2000-03-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wes Peters writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: I'd like to be able to do some simple spl locking in a driver that I'm writing. While I could go the splhigh() route, I'm concerned that spending lots of time

Re: md_image compression?

2000-03-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
y add libz to the kernel. We actually already have a unzip'er available in the kernel, the one which was used for unzip'ing a.out executables. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD --

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to be bothered by routine driver maintenance. While the card "works" you wont be able to set media-related features..so you really do need the fix. I've successfully fixed our version and its working nicely.I've forwarded the info to DG so hopefully it will be patched soon. DB -- Po

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: At 08:07 PM 3/27/00 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Dennis, You need to work with the maintainer of the driver on issues like this, and as you have found out that is David Greenman. Been there, done that...tired of waiting. What does one do when

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
you appear to have fixed the problems and updated the code, would you like to submit it for review? I would, except as we speak Poul-Henning Kamp is trying to have my posts censored,so they dont seem to want my help. I don't want them censored, I want the tagged ("Subject: [TROLL] bla bla

Re: OpenBSD says it has optimised kernel fdalloc. Is this relevant for FreeBSD

2000-03-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
/banga/banga_html/banga.html Is this relevant for FreeBSD ? The problem: yes, the solution: maybe. Other people have worked on an eventqueue based solution. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their l

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "David O'Brien" writes: Access to ftp.internat.freebsd.org from the USA (and presumably elsewhere) is an abomination. Isn't there *anyone* with an permanate FTP server that could officially mirror the crypto bits from ftp.internat.freebsd.org? I may be able to

Re: NFS FHs, what are they (how are they made?)

2000-04-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "David E. Cross" writes: I then used dump/restore to ensure that the inode numbers would remain the same. I don't think restore can preserve inode numbers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP sin

Re: Kernel adjustment for clock drift

2000-04-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
mode is pretty good for dial-up/demand lines. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Frame relay driver

2000-04-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
d I belive the if_ar and if_sr will as well. If you are interested in a V.35 style sync card, I have one which LMC (www.lanmedia.com) lent me, but for which I have not gotten the driver converted to netgraph yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TC

Re: memory in the kernel

2000-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
gion, copy manually and release the old one? Yes, we have no realloc(9). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by in

Re: NFS attribute cache profiling sysctl variables

2000-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
program to try and retrieve the values by calling sysctlbyname (or sysctl if you know the OIDs). ... Or use sysctl -b mumble.frotz | hexdump -C -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
st precise NTP stratum 1 servers in the world: +/- 20nsec. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To U

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that military use is even better already, i.e. I just imagine they are at 1m or less already. Not quite, the military system is only better because it has two frequencies, and that doesn't improve things *that* much. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Langer writ es: Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): not supposed to know about how it works) which gives them an even more interesting and powerful DOS on the GPS system. I doesn't quite work by postal code, but it comes *very* close

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
coverage where you are. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: APJ Article

2000-05-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
programs. There you will find both the environment and the cmd line args. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be expla

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
more or les exactly on the equator or one of the poles. Here where I live (56 north) about 30% of the sky is never covered by a satelite because of the inclination of the satelites being non-zero. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wes Peters writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : With 12-channel chipsets becoming common, new devices are getting quite : good at this. Yes. Most of the data I

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that prefer the US? Not really, but they don't bother going over the poles. Plot the orbits based on the almanac and you can see the pattern. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
riend on the other side of town" and the police then playing a GSM call and showing the area where the phone could have been at the time of the call. They need a court order of for both wire-tapping and getting hold of the location information. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: rexec as root

2000-05-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
sense. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PR kern/18346 - struct file ref count is a short, can be overflowed

2000-05-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
serious problems, such as file descriptor stealing (what happens when you roll the ref count to 0?). Any objections? Agreed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: Motif goes open source

2000-05-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ss in the UNIX world is :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ATM adapter

2000-05-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Get the Fore PCA200 and use the "HARP" ATM code which is far more functional than the "Chuck ATM" code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribut

Re: netgraph support for channelized LMC 1504 PCI card?

2000-05-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Len Conrad wri tes: There was some talk about this back in March or so, leaving me rembering someone said that it wouldn't be too hard or long to do it. Has there been any progress? I have still not received my hardware :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: Linux and FreeBSD dual universe

2000-05-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ng: . .. .ucbfoo .attfoo bar and you were in universe "ucb" you would see: . foo bar where "foo" would take you to ".ucbfoo" it was that simple. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [E

Re: How do I time in kernel...

2000-05-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Can I use gettimeofday() inside kernel? if so why 3.3 is panicking? Ifnot why 3.1 is not panicking? It's called "microtime()" in the kernel. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and go away. I understand it, and I think it sucks. "Cogito ergo cogito ergo sum" as one of the fortunes claims with little regard to latin grammer. You forgot the bit about "shut up and go away" Dennis, despite the fact that a fair number of people have asked you to.

Re: IP prepaid accounting

2000-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
You should make the exceeding of a quota a ipfw criteria rather than an ipfw action, that way people can deny, drop, forward or DUMMYNET packets exceeeding the quota. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member

Re: IP prepaid accounting

2000-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
all ip from any to any exquota guest -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: IP prepaid accounting

2000-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hans Huebner writes: On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: It should be possible to say say ipfw deny all ip from any to any exquota any as well as: ipfw deny all ip from any to any exquota guest Do you say that in principle

Anyone feel like donating a T1 CSU/DSU ?

2000-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that can do fractional T1), they could part with for a good cause, I would be most happy. A V.35 CSU/DSU would be great but other devices can probably be fit into my setup as well. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam

Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation / arla 0.34.6

2001-01-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to be able to find certain directories. I had some fun with it when playing with a TOYFS of mine. Take a peek in the libc sources, there are som assumptions which may surprise you. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
are birds... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors

2001-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
times (e.g. programming language keywords). And even then it's seldom worth it according to the people behind the LCC compiler... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: EBCDIC - ASCII

2001-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Josef Grosch writes: Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one time FreeBSD had one of these. man 1 dd -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
on your altitude and air pressure) That is overlooking that the air rotates in mostly laminar fashion with the platters, isn't it ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that qmail doesn't use fsync(2) as much as it should :do. If that is true, then yes, softupdates would mean that a lot of things :which qmail (mistakenly) think has been written are in fact not on the :disk. : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, with any :filesystem no matter how it is mounted (even sync mounted filesystems), :is by calling fsync(). : :So I would stick with softupdates. : :... provided that qmail calls fsync(2). : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 It doesn't matter whether qmail

MRTG like graphs without SNMP: howto.

2001-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I sat down and hacked a couple of shellscripts to give a basic graphing of the interface trafic on a FreeBSD box without taking the detour around SNMP. The result is available here: http://phk.freebsd.dk/IfTraf/ Enjoy, -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
? Is that file obsolete, or do the warnings still apply? I think that file is obsolete by now. I also think we should make newfs turn softupdates on by default in -current. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Maxime Henrion writes: What do you think of what NetBSD implemented ? softupdates is now enabled via a mount option. This seems cleaner than the tunefs -n enable thing. I have never understood why it was a tunefs thing... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wemm writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Maxime Henrion writes: What do you think of what NetBSD implemented ? softupdates is now enabled vi a a mount option. This seems cleaner than the tunefs -n enable thing. I have

Re: new /etc/malloc.conf option

2001-02-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ug through which you can control the probability in batch or realtime mode. Either way, I'm not sure it belongs in phkmalloc() -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: character device driver

2001-02-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
this. There is no reliable way to associate a call into the device driver with a particular file descriptor, and in particular the driver cannot find out what happens in if dup(2) is used. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: character device driver

2001-02-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in how many processes because neither dup(2) nor fork(2) result in a (pseudo-)open call. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: portability sanity check

2001-02-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
xplain why :-) It is obfuscated 'C', but it is safe. The standard requires that (void *) foo == (void *) foo-s and that if s were a complex structure that it be laid out the same in all instances of s. So I think that it is "safe" to do that. Safe, but stupid, since type-safety is lost when doing

Re: portability sanity check

2001-02-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes: : Likewise if the first member were a mo

Re: warning in free():

2001-02-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
this warning means? What may be the effect of this code when I shift it to kernel with due modifications? It means that you do something like this: ... p = malloc(n); /* N =2048 */ p += m; free(p); -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: warning in free():

2001-02-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
set some "silent-libc" or "libc messages go to logs" instead of using stdout/stderr. Since some time ago, there is an API to control how the messages from malloc is output, look for "malloc_message" in malloc(3). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zi

Re: Listing configured md(4) devices

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
incorporate that in your patch ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
errors, nfs servers going away, forced unmounts). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe:

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Seebach writes : In message 9402.983047348@critter, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: Well, no, but the sole available definition of "portable" says that it is "portable" to assume that all the memory malloc can return is really available. No, thi

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Seebach writes : In message 9469.983047707@critter, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: The guarantee is "If malloc returns NULL there is no memory you can use". No, it's "if the memory is not available, malloc returns NULL". No it is not and it ne

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Seebach writes : In message 9631.983048712@critter, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: No it is not and it never was. The C committee believes it is. The C committee doesn't deal with operating systems or the real world for that matter. They only interest them selves

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Seebach writes : In message 9820.983050024@critter, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: I think there is a language thing you don't understand here. No, I just disagree. It is useful for the OS to provide a hook for memory which is *known to work

Re: Listing configured md(4) devices

2001-02-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequat

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-02-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to help. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: Hardware question - WAN port for FreeBSD router!

2001-03-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
available? And (most important) one which is supported by the necessary BSD drivers? www.lanmedia.com, they have a T1/E1 card... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: if_fxp status?

2001-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
people who can fix it, but they cannot do anything if you refuse to supply all the precise details in an easy to access form. If you are unwilling to do that, then stop bothering us! Indeed, I think Dennis could solve two problems by just dropping FreeBSD right away. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ?

2001-03-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that cyl 0-9 has 18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21. A small matter of hacking... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, unlike normal diffs. Unified diffs are generally smaller than "plain" context diffs, and some people find them more readable and some don't. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with added emphasis: Unified diffs are *also* context diffs. Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context around the changed lines, unlike *normal* diffs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device

2001-03-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
as closely as possible, including the fact that it may disappear without notice or caution. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be

so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robe rt Watson writes: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:36:30AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? Good idea, write one :-) To be a really

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