Re: [CFR] IPv6 support for pserver of cvs

2001-11-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20011104 15:28], Hajimu UMEMOTO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I wish to add IPv6 support to pserver of cvs. You can find the patch from: http://www.imasy.or.jp/?(J?ume/ipv6/FreeBSD/cvs-ipv6.diff This patch is based on the patch by KAME folks. But, the patch is for 1.11 and isn't

Re: gif(4) question

2001-03-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[This question is more appropriate for -net IMHO] -On [20010322 03:00], David E. Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I recently tried (for the first time) to get gif running under FreeBSD 4.3-BETA (cvsup-ed yesterday). I noticed the following: gifconfig gif0 inet 10.1.1.1 10.1.2.1 ifconfig gif0

Re: Debuging kernel crashes

2001-03-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[moved to hackers, since it is more appropriate there than in -net] [net bcc:'d] -On [20010320 07:00], Gurpratap Virdi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I modified the FreeBSD 4.2 kernel and occasionally the kernel crashes. How can I determine the line of code that caused the crash? I tried addr2line

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010310 01:00], Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation is to publically declare our support for those vendors who *do* release documentation under reasonable terms. One way to do this is to acknowledge those vendors

Re: Cvsup and ports

2001-02-19 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010220 02:30], Nigel Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I recently did a CVSUP on my ports because i wanted to install enlightenment did a make install and recieved the following error. Error: your port uses an old layout. Please update it to match this bsd.port.mk. If you have updated

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

2001-02-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010206 20:25], Andre Oppermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... provided that qmail calls fsync(2). $ cd qmail-ldap/ $ grep fsync * | wc -l 21 Of course that says nothing if the fsync()'s are not placed at strategic places. fsync(); fsync(); fsync(); . . . fsync(); And _then_ the

Re: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2701 11:18], Mustafa Deeb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Invalidating pack (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): SCB 0x62 - timed out while idle, SEQADDR == 0xb (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): Queuing a BDR SCB (da2:ahc0:0:4:0): no

Re: style(9)

2000-07-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2701 09:25], Wes Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Or simply get a wider editor. Seriously. Writing code in 80 columns is an anachronism. Tastes do differ for that. Often the 80 column boundary reminds me not to use functions_which_have_crazy_long_names_with_underscores(), but be a

Re: Fwd: socket.h and _POSIX_SOURCE

2000-04-29 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2425 20:08], Arun Sharma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Would it be fair to say this is a (POSIX non-compliance) bug in the header files ? As Bruce Evans was kind enough to reassure me: sys/socket.h is not a POSIX header. 'nuff said I guess. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai

Re: Fwd: socket.h and _POSIX_SOURCE

2000-04-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2420 20:02], Arun Sharma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Comments ? $ cat test.c #include sys/types.h #include sys/socket.h $ cc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -c test.c In file included from test.c:2: /usr/include/sys/socket.h:47: syntax error before `sa_family_t' /usr/include/sys/socket.h:47: warning:

Re: Shim Code #error needed

2000-03-26 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2326 00:00], Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: However, I was thinking that it would be nice if there was something simple to grep for to see what drivers still needed to be converted. I assume you mean PCI devices, since ISA are detailed in: /src/sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.h --

WRT `Is FreeBSD dead?'

2000-03-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Could we place relocate this topic to -chat or -advocacy, since it doesn't seem that correct to be discussed on -hackers. Hackers was meant for quality technical discussion, not discussions about FUD, stupidity of people whom don't read official messages posted prior to stating things, spinning

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

2000-03-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2312 00:00], Joe Abley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Dennis wrote: Another point is that Open Source is virtually synonomous with "Totally undocumented". This is sillier. Exactly, and it also slightly pisses me off... Then I guess I wrote all

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2221 08:00], Daniel C. Sobral ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: No, it was wrt to Playstation, Nintendo, Sega or something like that. M... I thinking it was probably wrt to SEGA, because there was also a trademark dispute related to a small string. :-) An american company tried to get a

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 soundcards. no response. i mailed

Re: Broken pipe

2000-02-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[This does _not_ belong on hackers, follow-ups set to questions] -On [2206 04:00], Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I run my script,sometimes I receive next message: "/usr/sbin/wanrouter: line 5 288 Broken pipe ls $ROUTER_LOCK_DIR/ 289 Exit 1 | grep -q wanpipe*" Ehm, the above

Re: IPFW / IP Filter question

2000-02-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2203 22:43], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would have thought you would use the tee option in ipfw for this, but its not implemented yet according to my man pages, so I was wondering if there was another way to do this, cause it makes traffic analysis a hell of a lot

Re: How to write a device-driver?

2000-01-25 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2124 00:00], Joachim Jäckel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here´s some information to the card I'd like to support: It's a Miro DC10+ Video Grabber Card for Non-Linear Video-Editing. It uses a Siemens SAA7110, a Zoran 36060+36067 and a ADV chip to en- and decode the video-information.

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2124 10:13], Daniel C. Sobral ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Bill Maniatty wrote: First we want to get the mechanism of driver installation down, then try our hands at writing our own driver. I fear that if we roll our own driver software we may find that if we have errors (not that we

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2124 10:13], Daniel C. Sobral ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As long as a device is just inb/outb (I seem to recall newbus have a replacement for these) bus_space_read_#() / bus_space_write_#() Where # is 1, 2, 4, or 8. But I don't think we support atomic 8 byte atomic reads and writes.

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2124 10:13], William A. Maniatty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is it possible to get a look at the digital Unix guides, that might be a good starting point. Are they on line (perhaps you have a URL)?

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2124 08:01], Chuck Robey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The problem is, you can't even find what the interfaces are. Reading the code isn't very useful if you can't even find the right place to start from. At least the interface points could be listed, so that someone would know where to

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2124 19:55], Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: : As long as a device is just inb/outb (I seem to recall newbus have a : replacement for these) : : bus_space_read_#() / bus_space_write_#() : : Where # is 1, 2, 4, or 8

Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel

2000-01-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2123 11:11], Greg Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [adding -doc, which is more appropriate for some of the questions] On Saturday, 22 January 2000 at 23:06:41 -0500, Bill Maniatty wrote: I have a student this semester in my Operating Systems class who would like to become a bit more

Re: disappearing mount points after install

2000-01-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2122 20:00], Marwan Fayed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There have been two suggestions both very related, both of which I have already considered. I thought perhaps my BIOS required a DOS partition so I installed RedHat 6.1 to be sure. Guess what? It worked! My past recollection of

Re: Query??

2000-01-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2121 04:02], Saurabh Bhandari ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear Sir, Hi, I am a M.S. student with major as Computer Science. I am doing an independent study with my professor. I have been told that BSD drivers are not documented at this point of time. So I would like to document the

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2400 RCC PCI chipset?

2000-01-16 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[ Please strip either smp or hackers on the next replies ] -On [2112 00:00], Kenneth D. Merry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone have a URL for RCC? I just spend 30 minutes digging. No URL to be find. All tech forums have URL's for all participants, except for RCC (Reliance Computer

Re: wchar support?

1999-12-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [19991223 12:00], Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:30:21PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: -On [19991221 18:25], Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to compile OpenJade 1.3, a C++ application, for the Doc. Proj. The build fails

machine/bus.h

1999-11-08 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Hi, machine/bus.h claims, in its comment section, that it supports 8 byte read/writes, but never in the whole file does it declare anything remotely akin to bus_space_read_8(). Any reason why not? The outcome of this answer will determine whether I make a patch to correct the comments or add

getopt.h

1999-10-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Well I searched the mailinglists and didn't really got further than discovering that unistd.h goes a little way to provide functionality which getopt.h from glibc provides. And seeing that a question of Bill early 1999 never got answered correctly. I cc:'d Bruce on this since I value his

soundcard.h

1999-10-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Hi, just been messing with some more include files and I am curious about something. [Note: CURRENT system] I have a soundcard.h in both include/sys and include/machine. Which should have preference over the other, why does one simply not include the other. In other words, why two _exactly_

Re: On pthreads [Was: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase]

1999-10-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991006 04:02], Brian F. Feldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What do you all think about http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/OpenBSD.libc_r.cancel.patch ? I isolated the set of commits that added cancelling to OpenBSD's libc_r, and it seems (since they took it from us originally :) it should be

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[ snip good advice ] Now this is very good advice. I am certainly going to keep Darryl's comments somewhere for easy reference in order to make sure I at least never forget where I came from and how to treat others. I think everybody should heed this advice. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der

Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase

1999-10-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991004 11:42], Stephen Hocking ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to point out that they use the SDL library for many of their products. We have this in our ports section, but it does have a bug in that we get a threads crash when doing sound video simultaneously. The aliens demo

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991004 13:42], Michael Kennett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This 'how-to-help-yourself' document wouldn't have to be long. But it could contain references to the FreeBSD handbook, the FAQ, and other stuff that people put together (eg. Gregs pages on vinum, Brian Somers pages on ppp, + many

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[This is only informative for others willing to participate, after this it should probably no longer hit -hackers since it's getting off topic] On [19991004 14:02], Michael Kennett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Jeoren, Almost ;) s/eor/ero I am already going to do this kind of stuff for the

Re: umount(8) or unmount(2) ?

1999-10-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19991003 04:18], Martin Blapp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Since about 5 weeks I'm working on sanity checks and bug fixes for umount(8), mount(8) and mount_xxx(8). Poul Henning told me to mail to cvs-committers too, cause many clued people read it. And don't bother to read -hackers. You'll

Re: FreeBSD driver for DPT SmartRAID V

1999-09-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19990930 08:14], Anthony Rubin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With the release of the Linux driver for the DPT SmartRAID V cards I imagine it is just a matter of time before we have a FreeBSD driver. I sent the following message to DPT. I know this may be a long shot, but here goes. What would

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-14 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav (d...@flood.ping.uio.no) [990914 16:44]: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai asmo...@wxs.nl writes: The Unix Programming Environment by Rob Pike and Ritchie Kerninghan Ritchie Kernighan? Who's Ritchie Kernighan? Thanks for you concern about my apparant inability to remember big names

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nate Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990910 07:14]: In any case, if you install a recent version of FreeBSD, I doubt Mr. NT is capable of crashing FreeBSD from externally. Just make sure he doesn't have an account on it, since it's much easier to cause Denial Of Service attacks if you don't

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Gustavo V G C Rios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990910 04:14]: I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Start with: Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD by

Re: A Challenge

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nate Williams (n...@mt.sri.com) [990910 07:14]: In any case, if you install a recent version of FreeBSD, I doubt Mr. NT is capable of crashing FreeBSD from externally. Just make sure he doesn't have an account on it, since it's much easier to cause Denial Of Service attacks if you don't spend

Re: submiting source code ?

1999-09-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Gustavo V G C Rios (gr...@ddsecurity.com.br) [990910 04:14]: I use freebsd about +- 12 months ago. I have never did any thing serious at kernel level, nor i know anything about kernel desgin. Start with: Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD by

Re: How to go about making a compiler port

1999-09-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Simon Marlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990912 13:05]: I'd like to make a port for our Haskell compiler, GHC (see http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc). There are some subtle problems with this: - GHC depends on itself. That is, you need GHC installed in order to build

Re: How to go about making a compiler port

1999-09-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Simon Marlow (simon...@microsoft.com) [990912 13:05]: I'd like to make a port for our Haskell compiler, GHC (see http://research.microsoft.com/users/t-simonm/ghc). There are some subtle problems with this: - GHC depends on itself. That is, you need GHC installed in order to

Re: Ariel RS 2000 T1/EI card

1999-09-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
[snip] Please people. When posting messages DON'T reply to other messages if the topic has NOTHING to do with the topic being discussed. This obviously messes up reply-to headers, makes the archives less useful as well and generally screws up threading in MUA's. Thanks. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Daniel O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990909 07:15]: On 09-Sep-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: I would not be able to see any other proccess which i am not the owner, top would indicated, only 8 proccess, for this current scenario. Linux already have such a facility! Hack ps and turn off

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Daniel O'Connor (docon...@gsoft.com.au) [990909 07:15]: On 09-Sep-99 Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: I would not be able to see any other proccess which i am not the owner, top would indicated, only 8 proccess, for this current scenario. Linux already have such a facility! Hack ps and turn

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990903 12:14]: * From: Jonathan Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] * hw.clockrate: 132 * Doing this for Pentium and better systems should be trivial. Doing * it for 486 and lower would just add a timing loop. Doing it for SMP *

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

1999-09-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami (as...@freebsd.org) [990903 12:14]: * From: Jonathan Lemon jle...@americantv.com * hw.clockrate: 132 * Doing this for Pentium and better systems should be trivial. Doing * it for 486 and lower would just add a timing loop. Doing it for SMP *

Re: Propose mdoc fix regarding ERRORS section

1999-08-28 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Mike Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990828 11:44]: Category: docs Synopsis: src/lib/libc/sys/*.2 misc patch pack - first column in most ERROR lists is too narrow. Normalize their width. Right now we have a problem with our on-line man pages. Most were written when the length of

Re: Propose mdoc fix regarding ERRORS section

1999-08-28 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Mike Pritchard (m...@mpp.pro-ns.net) [990828 11:44]: Category: docs Synopsis: src/lib/libc/sys/*.2 misc patch pack - first column in most ERROR lists is too narrow. Normalize their width. Right now we have a problem with our on-line man pages. Most were written when the length of

Re: What's new in Linux 2.4

1999-08-04 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Peter Jeremy (jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) [990804 01:13]: Jordan recently mentioned Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second Edition) http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html. This article makes the statement Linux is still the only operating system completely compatible with the

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Wes Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990803 10:13]: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Andy Doran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990802 00:53]: Wes Peters writes: NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one

Re: What's new in Linux 2.4

1999-08-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Peter Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990804 01:13]: Jordan recently mentioned "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second Edition)" http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html. This article makes the statement "Linux is still the only operating system completely compatible with the IPv4

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Wes Peters (w...@softweyr.com) [990803 10:13]: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Andy Doran (a...@netbsd.org) [990802 00:53]: Wes Peters writes: NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Andy Doran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990802 00:53]: Wes Peters writes: NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one of the NetBSD lists once it's near completion. tech-toolchain@ or tech-userlevel@ would be

Re: No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Wes Peters (w...@softweyr.com) [990801 07:12]: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]: We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914). Does anyone feel up to writing one? Saw it before, noticed

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-01 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Andy Doran (a...@netbsd.org) [990802 00:53]: Wes Peters writes: NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one of the NetBSD lists once it's near completion. tech-toolchain@ or tech-userlevel@ would be the

Re: Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-31 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990801 00:35]: How does the attached patch grab you? I think it perfect... Now to find the time to wrote the sucker ;) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project

Re: No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-07-31 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Sheldon Hearn (sheld...@uunet.co.za) [990801 00:35]: On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:46:26 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: If no-one objects I'll submit a manpage per a.out(5) style tomorrow for review untill it's ready for inclusion. Anyone who objects to your submissions is a woes

Re: Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-31 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton (n...@freebsd.org) [990801 00:35]: How does the attached patch grab you? I think it perfect... Now to find the time to wrote the sucker ;) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project

Re: No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-07-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990730 23:37]: Hi folks, We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914). Does anyone feel up to writing one? Saw it before, noticed it, placed on my to-do list. If no-one objects I'll submit a manpage per a.out(5) style tomorrow for

Re: Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990730 23:37]: -hackers, Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html still correct? I know there have been changes to this area of the tree over the past 6 months or so, but I don't know how much

Re: No elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-07-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]: Hi folks, We have an a.out(5), but no elf(5) (as pointed out in docs/7914). Does anyone feel up to writing one? Saw it before, noticed it, placed on my to-do list. If no-one objects I'll submit a manpage per a.out(5) style

Re: Is the _Device Driver Writers Guide_ still apropos?

1999-07-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Nik Clayton (n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) [990730 23:37]: -hackers, Is the FreeBSD Device Driver Writers Guide at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html still correct? I know there have been changes to this area of the tree over the past 6 months or so, but I don't

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

1999-07-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* David Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990723 18:41]: if ((bi-bi_socktype == sep-se_socktype strcmp(bi-bi_service, sep-se_service) == 0) || matchservent(bi-bi_service, sep-se_service,

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

1999-07-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* David Malone (dwmal...@maths.tcd.ie) [990723 18:41]: if ((bi-bi_socktype == sep-se_socktype strcmp(bi-bi_service, sep-se_service) == 0) || matchservent(bi-bi_service, sep-se_service,

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* ito...@iijlab.net (ito...@iijlab.net) [990722 16:17]: Are you just teasing or are you serious? Well, according to what was discussed earlier he is serious. But from prolonged exposure to the kame lists I (think I) know that the FreeBSD ipv6 stuff is only available for 3.x and below.

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* John Hay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990722 11:55]: Are you just teasing or are you serious? Well, according to what was discussed earlier he is serious. But from prolonged exposure to the kame lists I (think I) know that the FreeBSD ipv6 stuff is only available for 3.x and below. I searched

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* John Hay (j...@mikom.csir.co.za) [990722 11:55]: Are you just teasing or are you serious? Well, according to what was discussed earlier he is serious. But from prolonged exposure to the kame lists I (think I) know that the FreeBSD ipv6 stuff is only available for 3.x and below. I searched

Re: building thread-safe Xlibs

1999-06-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Francis Jordan (fran...@netscape.net) [990626 06:03]: xc/include/Xos_r.h which contains definitions of same (basically, pwd.h wrappers) for various platforms, but not FreeBSD (I guess at the time FreeBSD didn't have threads). Unfortunately, the wrappers for other platforms are no

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-06-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) [990623 07:43]: @daemon.ninth-circle.org Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: : No documentation is worse than just a sparse manpage. ls /usr/share/man/man9 | egrep newbus stuff Oh, I wasn't implying that the newbus guys didn't document anything. I

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-06-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Warner Losh (i...@harmony.village.org) [990623 07:43]: daemon.ninth-circle.org Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: : Granted, we can never think of reaching a commercial level on documentating : the internals/code which all the committers provide. I think that the documenation that Doug has

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-06-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Doug Rabson (d...@nlsystems.com) [990622 20:48]: On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: From the keyboard of Nick Hibma: And as to the author: Writing docu while you are implementing something might work in a commercial environment where you want to be able to market

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-06-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Mark Newton (new...@internode.com.au) [990622 17:38]: Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: And as to the author: Writing docu while you are implementing something might work in a commercial environment where you want to be able to market something before it's sell-by date, but for hobbiests

Re: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)

1999-06-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Mike Smith (m...@smith.net.au) [990622 17:38]: And they might, too. phk has frequently expressed a desire to either write documentation on existing systems, or at least help others do so. No offence meant, but we can see how much of this has actually materialised. Hence I started

Re: libss

1999-06-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* David O'Brien (obr...@nuxi.com) [990621 10:38]: Does anybody know what /usr/src/lib/libss/ is? There isn't a manpage for it, and viewing the source I still can't figure out what it is other than it came from MIT (Athena). Apparantly David it came from the SIPB at MIT and more specifically

A question about errors.

1999-05-26 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Hi, I am updating the description of intro(3) and have stumbled upon some challenges: #define EAUTH 80 /* Authentication error */ #define ENEEDAUTH 81 /* Need authenticator */ #define EOVERFLOW 84 /* Value too large to be stored in

RE: Lists of libc APIs for *bsd linux

1999-05-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 24-May-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: I'm hunting around for a list of entry points in both Linux FreeBSD's libc. I want to find out what linux libc entry points are not found within the BSD libc, and what entry points that are common have different

RE: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Hi Andreas =) On 23-May-99 Andreas Klemm wrote: Am currently discussing FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD in private e-mail. What make OpenBSD so secure ? Or can this kind of security be reproduced with FreeBSD ports ? I think of tools like: Ye missed one of the most important things: auditing of the

RE: IPv6 and -current?

1999-05-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 23-May-99 Alex Zepeda wrote: Out of a perhaps morbid curiosity, I'm somewhat interested in setting up an IPv6 stack on my computer. From what I can tell there are two well supported stacks. Kame and Inria, and both support 2.2.8, Kame also supports 3.x. Has anyone tried to port either to

RE: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have.

1999-05-23 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 23-May-99 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia. OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses that border) on paranoia, wrt code.

RE: Logging promiscuous mode disabled

1999-05-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 22-May-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: It doesn't seem to me like it'd break anything, and I'd like to know for sure when it's turned off -- it'd mean I don't have to count up the number of promiscous mode enabled messages and make sure that that number matches the number of applications I've run

FW: Question on rename()

1999-05-18 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Could you guys please give yer own opinions on that? I will compile some of the better arguments and resend them to the Posix revision list... -FW: 990518120639.zm1...@tamarix.rdg.opengroup.org- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 13:06:40 +0100 From: Andrew Josey ajo...@rdg.opengroup.org To: