Re: ACPI timecounter tests original fast version vs masked version

2002-02-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, mask); mask = 1; } -- 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

Future of HARP ATM stack in freebsd...

2002-02-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, if the drivers are not fixed by may 1st the HARP ATM stack will be put in the attic. If anybody is interested in actively maintaining this code, I may be able to find a donor for some ATM cards. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
(something), onemore)) { chugchugchug(argthisa; } is just a tiny bit more readable than if ((somerandomfunction(argthis, functionthat(something), onemore) != 0) { chugchugchug(argthisa; } for instance. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer writes: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer writes: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 02:08:07AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Now, IFF the C language had a type called

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer writes: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer writes: I'm advocating that the rule focus on readability rather than trying to enforce a type which doesn't exist. Excellent idea. Can you provide verbiage

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
be explicitly compared to zero if (float_t == 0.0) 3. Integers need not be explicitly compared to zero: if (foo MASK) not if ((foo MASK) != 0) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
what is the problem ? -- 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

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of the the logic of the expression does. Which is if string compare a with b is equal then do X. [if (strcmp(a,b) == 0)] Well, we're clearly into IMO land here, so lets ignore that :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: RFC: style(9) isn't explicit about booleans for testing.

2002-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
should mean are the same but really means are different and likewise for the second one. Guys, strcmp() has been defined that way for almost 30 years, get used to it, and don't demand obfuscation of every other if() in the kernel to try to hide the fact... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: dumpon(8) obsolete

2002-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
stuff out of the dumpon(8) manual and proceed to remove the program itself as described above. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: 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

Userland Hacker Task: divert socket listener...

2002-03-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
a divert ipfw rule for incoming trafic from the attackers IP# to capture all the tricks he is trying to do. Log the received packets in detail in pcap format files. Report the packets to Dshield.org etc. Any takers ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: jail bug with ircd-hybrid in_pcbconnect()?

2002-03-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
someone who understands the pcb functions can point out exactly what the error is in here -- this is the first time i've ever looked at them... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

UFS2, GEOM DARPA - don't get all excited, OK ?

2002-03-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
or indirectly, provide feedback to DARPA. I hope this answers the FAQ on UFS2, GEOM and all that. -- 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

C-struct dismantling tool...

2002-03-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. -- 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 unsubscribe freebsd

Re: procfs development

2002-04-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and Unixware. We are working very hard to make procfs optional in FreeBSD for a number of reasons. -- 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: read a file from a driver

2002-04-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
is to use an ioctl to download the data from userland. -- 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: Engine management system under FreeBSD.

2002-04-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
practically rules out any high-level. You might consider putting a PIC out there for the actual timing, and having a control interface to it along the lines of pulse this line move ignition earlier, pulse that one and move ignition later. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: microtime trustworthiness during booting?

2002-04-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
as timecounter? Unlikely. -- 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

Re: MIIBUS_MEDIAINIT method

2002-04-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in miibus_attach() or miibus_probe() instead? I just had reason to mess around with a PHY GigE related problem as well, and I can only say that the MII code might have sounded like a good idea at the time but the implementation sucks as far as I can tell. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of simple classes in GEOM. -- 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

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miguel Mendez writes: Well, if you've used recent versions of the veritas volume manager fronted you'll notice that they give the cli command output in a window, that's what I intend to do. They did that in 1994... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, because I couldn't find one already in existance. fdisk and disklabel only seem to work on one disk at a time, and I wanted to see everything. Yes :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

FreeBSD's birth announcement...

2002-04-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: national security backdoor in FreeBSD.

2002-05-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
hacks to the compiler and the passwd program when the compiler itself was being compiled. Sigh. Wrong reference. That was from Brians ACM Turning award thankyou-presentation. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD.

2002-05-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That was from Brians ACM Turning award thankyou-presentation. http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ Ahh, at least I got one more parameter right than Terry :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, not the basics, correct? Other than SMP, of course. It is the intent that GEOM will be standard (or basics if you like). -- 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: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], j mckitrick writes: On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:44:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], j mckitrick writes: | | On the other hand, there are numerous new features (GEOM, TrustedBSD, | | OpenPAM, Snapshots + background fsck, etc) being

Re: 0xdeadxxxx ?

2002-06-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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 adequately

8 floppy drive anyone ?

2002-06-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I have a bunch of 8 floppies I need to try to recover contents from, is there anybody out there who has a 8 drive they'd be willing to part with for $$ ? If it comes with the magic SA800-PC cable it would be just perfect. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: 8 floppy drive anyone ?

2002-06-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hellmuth Michaelis writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have a bunch of 8 floppies I need to try to recover contents from, is there anybody out there who has a 8 drive they'd be willing to part with for $$ ? Sorry, but i'm in the same boat. I have an old Hewlett

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
(1) over a wavelan is a very good test-bed for this issue. -- 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: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Sierchio writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very

Re: how to find offset of a string in a binary file ?

2002-07-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that. :( Luigi, get in touch with W Gerald Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED], he has patches which does this by objcopy'ing the binary file to an elf-object and then linking that with the kernel. This is far superior to overwrite the binary kernel approach. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: Counting the clock cycles

2002-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to get passage of time (I don't need date/time, just the passage of it) for different internal operations in the program. Use UTC time, it has no daylight savings problems. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: Counting the clock cycles

2002-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], M. Warner Losh writes: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : In message 005f01c22dd1$7be7d180$0300a8c0@fivehundred, Andrei Cojocaru writ : es: : I am already synchronizing using xntp, that's not the problem

Re: MFC status for retransmit timer min/slop

2002-07-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
for an MFC. Suggest you provide a -stable friendly patchfile until we have this issue settled in -current. -- 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

Re: fs/udf: vm pages overlap while reading large dir

2008-02-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to not access subsectors. -- 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: fs/udf: vm pages overlap while reading large dir

2008-02-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and use the 512 byte units, so I guess it would be: offset = dbtob(blkno); KASSERT(!(offset (bsize - 1)), (suitable diagnostic)); -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it should be MFCed before release. I agree, but I'm ENOTIME. -- 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: write-only variables in src/sys/ - possible bugs

2009-02-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 49874ca8.5090...@gmx.de, Christoph Mallon writes: I compiled a list of all local variables in src/sys/ (r188000), which are only written to, but never read. Bravo! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
things happen. You will want to study carefully Dave Mills work to tame the alpha chips wandering SAW clocks. Poul-Henning [1] In my mind, reworking the callout system in the kernel would be a much better more neded and much more worthwhile project. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
notice in reaction to temperature and battery power. Let me repeat: [1] In my mind, reworking the callout system in the kernel would be a much better more neded and much more worthwhile project. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
like getpid/getgid. Agreed, that is a good place to start. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to a per-CPU page. Rule #3: The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all. We can add those mappings when we know why we would want them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.0903272303040.12...@fledge.watson.org, Robert Wats on writes: In which case user application threads will need to know their CPU [...] Didn't jemalloc solve that problem once already ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
be interesting. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

UFS parameter survey: HELP WANTED!

1999-05-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
(1) or similar (multiline) # Example: # 9 2.91 real 0.03 user 0.05 sys 9 ___ *END UFSTUNE FORM* -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress

Re: cdevsw_add

1999-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
am building the infrastructure it should be based on in the kernel. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: cdevsw_add

1999-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
off from. Basically all that is needed for a DEVFS to do, is to hook into the dev_t maintenance code and construct the directory tree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with the interrupts, the overflow heuristics in i8254_get_timecount() may break down). Other systems may have even more limitations on the timecounters. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
But shouldn't you still be able to use the timer in the local apic ? In message 86k8sajlmz@not.demophon.com, Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes: p...@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) writes: Somebody should study the abilities of the on-cpu APIC for this for pentium ff. machines

Re: Reading CIS from kernel?

1999-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 19990714185101.09...@goatsucker.org, 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

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 23428.932574...@axl.noc.iafrica.com, 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

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
this fact. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
pre-collapsed. You are talking gibberish here. Please show code where this is a problem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
will cover from before the big bang 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 p...@freebsd.org

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it some day. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
) on a blinding fast machine... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message pine.bsf.3.95.990818105716.12306a-100...@current1.whistle.com, Julian Elischer writes: On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Matt doesn't represent the FreeBSD project, and even if he rewrites the VFS subsystem so he can understand it, his rewrite would face considerable

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

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 p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
a little surprised 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 p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it appropriately. 'rm' 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 p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
) on a blinding fast machine... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message pine.bsf.3.95.990818105716.12306a-100...@current1.whistle.com, Julian Elischer writes: On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Matt doesn't represent the FreeBSD project, and even if he rewrites the VFS subsystem so he can understand it, his rewrite would face considerable

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it some day. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

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

1999-08-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
) and ask for another review after testing, before committing it. Erez. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-fs in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run

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

1999-08-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message pine.bsf.4.05.9908282023450.6392-100...@fw.wintelcom.net, 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

Re: KAME IPv6 and freebsd

1999-08-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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 p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes

Re: KAME IPv6 and freebsd

1999-08-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
wins over ITAR in this case. :) That's certainly an improvement in that particular battle :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org Real hackers run -current on their laptop. FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
But, unfortunately, putting the console on a serial port creates vulnerabilities when DDB is enabled. You are, essentially, creating an unintentional backdoor into the system. Hence the problem. ports/*/conserver is your friend! -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam

Re: [patch] extending alloc_unr(9) to allocate specific unit numbers

2010-06-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to me. Perhaps ask p...@? My only worry is that if people start to use this indiscriminantly to store random collections of numbers, then it is far from the optimal data structure for it. Other than that: go for it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Galep5 chip programmer works under FreeBSD

2011-06-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
There are various hooks into this product which allows it to be controlled by programs, I have not used those (yet?) Recommended, Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: int64_t and printf

2011-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, (intmax_t)t, buf); If some system introduces int512_t that may not be optimal, but since printf is a pretty slow operation anyway, I doubt it will hurt even half as much as the alternative. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: int64_t and printf

2011-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4debe469.5060...@links.org, Ben Laurie writes: On 05/06/2011 19:21, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 4debc741.1020...@links.org, Ben Laurie writes: I have therefore resorted to printf'ing any typedefed integer type using %jd and an explicit cast to (intmax_t): printf

Re: int64_t and printf

2011-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
cast anything that that's typedef'ed to intmax_t and move on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: A style proposal for referring to upper-level directories in Makefiles

2011-07-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
systems without bmake. I am not sure if that is a concern we should care about. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor

2011-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
like hardware that you can reliably share a disk between different mutually competitive operating systems. Most unix-machines don't have a concept of what you call partitions, and neither did BSD unix until 386BSD introduced it. Until then: One OS, one disk(-pack|-drive). -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, it is global rather than per-thread. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
also support in pthread for thread specific storage, which should be your first choice. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
are implemented ? That might allow you to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

A dual-ISP hack with jail/vnet and ipfw

2012-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in md(4) disk, rm, remount r/o rm -rf $jdir/* -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: PID/UID namespaces

2012-05-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
UID/GID spaces. Filesystems mounted or visible in multiple jails act as shared UID/GID (sub-)spaces for those jails, but there is now way to avoid that, it's a direct consequence of the sharing of the filesystems. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: [Hash function Ipv4]

2012-06-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1206031022360.55...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl, Wojci ech Puchar writes: is it the same possible with USB? i mean if i can make my laptop to simulate say USB CDROM. No, the hardware is not up to it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1206130909310.73...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl, Wojci ech Puchar writes: One of the major slowdowns is that we do all the device drivers serially synchronously. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-06-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I would like to point out that all other operating system which has had this precise problem, have solved it by adding a bootfs partition to hold the kernel+modules required to truly understand the disk-layout ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in their manual. TL;DR: Which part of compatible doesn't Intel get ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 201208102249.q7amn8gf066...@fire.js.berklix.net, Julian H. Stacey writes: I dont see 1.1.5: It is not in our VCS because of the USL-BSD lawsuit. You can find the bits here: http://phk.freebsd.dk/FreeBSD/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: [maybe spam] Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: [maybe spam] Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20120816081336.gb27...@e-new.0x20.net, Lars Engels writes: 386BSD was even better, and I have a machine that boots it in less than 15 seconds from power-on... Me too, it's running Linux. ;-) You should upgrade the OS then... :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message blu0-smtp510b16745b704c714268e2d5...@phx.gbl, Lorenzo Cogotti writ es: Hi, I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official supported graphical environment. We already do: It's called X11 :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message CAGsORuAnDs_E=l747+tp95nxjxdonnsqfvfco+xd2hjsj-u...@mail.gmail.com , Zhihao Yuan writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: In message blu0-smtp510b16745b704c714268e2d5...@phx.gbl, Lorenzo Cogotti writ es: Hi, I was wondering about

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message cagsorub4yd8rknlrwmctx16idohwjkd1rnyarb98nwn+pwv...@mail.gmail.com , Zhihao Yuan writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@freebsd.org wrote: My suggest was 100% serious: Assume X11 _is_ the graphical environment, pick a toolkit which is written to work

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
be nice to have as an option, but I would hate to have to deal with it, when I squeeze FreeBSD into embedded systems which have neither graphics outputs nor keyboard or mouse inputs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
you have at least 75% of the user population of FreeBSD agreeing on which window manager we should offer as the default, we can talk about this. Until such a consensus exists, this discussion is just a waste of time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
about this. so if 76% would decide that FreeBSD should have KDE included in system - it means that it should? Just to clarify: when I write offer by default I do not mean cram down peoples throat. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-09-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message cagh67wqty4krgwspa5jaht-4hqd4veykley-r3c6k9f5xaf...@mail.gmail.com , Garrett Cooper writes: No difference proven at 95.0% confidence This is the important bit of information... Thanks for the tip :)! You're welcome :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Re: please review: patch to retain device name for dumpdev.

2012-11-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
not a good idea. Given that /dev is really just a view into GEOMs namespace, one could argue for GEOM:ada0p3 that that may be going overboard in sematic correctness. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

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