Re: patch(1) depends on RCS - should it?

2013-10-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
be removed from patch(1)? See head/usr.bin/patch/inp.c lines 166 to 240 for details. Yes, that code should be removed. -- 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

Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (KR-style) C macro preprocessor) into base?

2013-06-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
will become version 0.2). However, I think these programs should be fixed, rather than put tradcpp in the src tree. -- 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

Re: Adding a FOREACH_CONTINUE() variant to queue(3)

2013-05-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
previos FOREACH involved. TAILQ_FOREACH_FROM(...) ? -- 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: devstat overhead VS precision

2013-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 516c71bc.4000...@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin writes: On 15.04.2013 23:43, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 516c515a.9090...@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin writes: For tuning anything on a non-ridiculous SSD device or modern harddisks, it will be useless because of the bias you

Re: devstat overhead VS precision

2013-04-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to measure latency precisly should be retained, but it could be made a sysctl enabled debugging facility. The %busy crap should be killed, all it does is confuse people. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: [patch] md(4) and preloaded memory disks

2012-11-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, this was for the case where you had preloaded multiple images, and the kernel would only auto-discover the first one. All things (such as the disapperance of floppy disks), considered this feature should be removed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP

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

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: 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: 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: [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: [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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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: [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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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

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: [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

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

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)

2009-03-26 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Tester needed, picture heavy webserver preferred.

2006-06-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
is into serious bandwidth AND clue. Should any of you know of a good candidate, please tell them to email me. Thanks in advance! Poul-Henning PS: Full discretion! The software will be delivered in plain brown IP packets with no source address :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Any D-Link employees here ?

2006-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Apologies for this interruption: If we have any D-Link employees in the audience, please contact me by private email, thanks! -- 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: [CALL FOR TESTERS] New system call: abort2()

2005-12-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-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. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
are not shared between the cards or with any other device. I suspect it is not the card as much as the driver, but I am not sure. -- 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: dev_lock() question

2005-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
too early due to console madness (in syscons I belive). -- 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: dev_lock() question

2005-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin writes: On Thursday 29 September 2005 02:14 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin writes: Actually, you would think that it could be initialized either via an early SYSINIT() or in the init_mutexes() function

Re: devfs file name NLS encoding?

2005-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
for the source encoding? All filenames in DEVFS are either created from the device driver 'C' source (as a string literal via sprintf mostly) or from userland as symlink. So whatever works. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: Kernel Source Divergence, Security (was: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem)

2005-07-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the patch before it gets committed because there are a large number of dragons. In P4:phk_gbde there is the beginning of hw-crypto support through opencrypto(9), if somebody wants to work on that, get in touch with me. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel Source Divergence, Security (was: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem)

2005-07-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-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. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem

2005-07-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
an encrypted volume (very hard!) and mounting the root filesystem from an encrypted volume (possible with pawels patch. Now of course, if your kernel has been trojaned, you're in trouble, but then again, most people just worry about their data if the machine gets stolen. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Ancient FreeBSD releases online

2005-07-03 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. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

wishlist for sysutils/xbatt: two batteries

2005-06-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Resume timer: unknown Resume on ring indicator: disabled Isn't there some kind soul who can make sysutils/xbatt (or some other X11 tool) show the status for the two batteries individually ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs

2005-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
? Because if I used part of the key material you would have to change the location of the lock sectors when you changed the key material. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
no idea if it works or not. Bad sector forwarding is another issue in this area. There are commercial companies who have specialized in recovering deleted data from trackfringes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. GBDE only makes that claim for a cold disk for pretty much the very reasons you mention. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of the storage managment (filesystem/ database) beyond the basic rotation, would just slow things down and not add any incremental security worth it. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-04 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. ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to that time is not really relevant. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
this. -- 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. ___ freebsd

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and more people trying out ideas. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
seem to belive otherwise. And that's where it ends. Have a good life. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ideas, nor more people trying out ideas; we need less. Standard, widely analyzed cryptographic algorithms are good. s/ are good/, when applied with caution and wisdom, are good/ :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-calling and hand-waving. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-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. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
bound. But even after removing several orders of magnitude, that leaves a huge amount of material you can encrypt with a single key. Just throwing out a data point. This would be much more interesting if you qouted the number they will say ten and twenty years from now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it is nobody I know. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and thanks of no end. Poul-Henning -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thor Lancelot Simon writes: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:25:18PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: To quote David Hume, Never an ought from an is. I'm Danish by birth so english is only my second language, so I apologize for mangling it. That users (who are they? how

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Todd Vierling writes: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: At the time where I wrote GBDE, the best that was offered was CGD (and similar) and users (not cryptographers!) didn't trust it Could you back up this claim, insofar that users did not trust cgd

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and saying GDBE is perfect as it is, Now, there is one thing I have never said and would never say. -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perry E. Metzger writes: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't let peole like Thor scare you away, progress happens when people try to follow their ideas, even if told that they are fools by people who (think they) know better. They laughed at Fulton

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perry E. Metzger writes: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Todd Vierling writes: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: At the time where I wrote GBDE, the best that was offered was CGD (and similar) and users

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with. In FreeBSD we have something called geom-gate which allows you to implement disks in userland. I'm sure something similar exists or can be trivially created in your favourite OS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Todd Vierling writes: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: And if CGD is _so_ officially approved as you say, then I can not for the life of me understand how it can use the same key to generate the IV and perform the encryption. At the very least two

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thor Lancelot Simon writes: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:15:55PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: And if CGD is _so_ officially approved as you say, then I can not for the life of me understand how it can use the same key to generate the IV and perform

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-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. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of thinking his arguments properly through and test his hypothesis. Unfortunately I can no longer offer him financial compensation for the effort, the DARPA contract is long since closed. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that it would take less than one hour to substitute another algorithm in the GBDE source code. Poul-Henning -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-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. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with, but that doesn't mean I am not interested in a discussion on the subject: just put me on the Cc:. Poul-Henning -- 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: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
do you know that the NIST/NSA review of AES did not know? That neither the authors of Rinjdael, its reviewers, nor NIST are willing to offer a 25 year warranty on it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
various lists I'm not on. I put my faith in somebody forwarding my replies faithfully onto those lists ? -- 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

FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
key handling an option for GBDE. So how about it guys: Instead of spreading FUD, lets work together and make the world an even better place ? Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-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. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
will be statistical in nature, GBDE is much more resistant because there is no two-way leverage on any of the algoritms. So, I will still claim that you get points for your key handling and flunk on the disk encryption side. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

GPIB: (very) basic ibfoo() library support

2005-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
); strvisx(vbuf, buf, ibcnt, VIS_WHITE | VIS_CSTYLE); printf(%s\n, vbuf); return (0); } Poul-Henning -- 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: GENERIC build broken

2005-01-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, it would save a lot of time and windmills if you would check the facts rather than keep arguing your unfounded dogma. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real hackers run -current on their laptop. Go fly a kite, Poul. I'm not interesting

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and other deep(er) pockets to help some of the heavy lifting happen. We're not only in it for the money, but money surely helps. And I'd like to stress that none of the above requires you to get permission from the core team, just go out and do it! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: sysctl hacks

2004-08-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
morelen; }; What is the proper way of sysctl'ing IN the data from moredata? I need to make a copy of the sysctl req, but... I'm not sure what to initialize the 'lock' member to. Just use the SYSCTL_IN() and ..._OUT() functions. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

[TEST] rewritten floppy driver

2004-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
friendly: [...] -- 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: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-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. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Otherwise it might fail. How does traceroute and ping normally determine which source address to use ? Can't we use that mechanism to default them to the right thing ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html Poul-Henning -- 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: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Langille writes: On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html typo :(An before any of you get an Should be And, not An. Fixed, thanks! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

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