Fwd: Re: GTK threading on FreeBSD (and possibly otherunices)

2000-01-13 Thread ROGIER MULHUIJZEN
I'm forwarding this from the GTK development list. According to Owen their is something wrong with the threads implementation Is that true? or is it a "It's not the way Linux works, so it must be wrong"-pigheadedness? =) DocWilco "ROGIER MULHUIJZEN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Pthreads

2000-01-13 Thread lists
Quick question, Does anyone on here know what the equivelant macro for PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITALIZER_NP is under freebsd? I cant find anything like this in pthread.h, and Im wondering without it what do I use to initialize a recursive mutex. Any advice would be appreciated Many thanks

Re: Fwd: Re: GTK threading on FreeBSD (and possibly other unices)

2000-01-13 Thread Jason Evans
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:27:23AM +0100, ROGIER MULHUIJZEN wrote: I'm forwarding this from the GTK development list. According to Owen their is something wrong with the threads implementation Is that true? or is it a "It's not the way Linux works, so it must be wrong"-pigheadedness? =)

Re: Fwd: Re: GTK threading on FreeBSD (and possibly other unices)

2000-01-13 Thread Daniel Eischen
I'm forwarding this from the GTK development list. According to Owen their is something wrong with the threads implementation Is that true? or is it a "It's not the way Linux works, so it must be wrong"-pigheadedness? =) What version of FreeBSD are you using? Dan Eischen [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: GTK threading on FreeBSD (and possibly otherunices)

2000-01-13 Thread ROGIER MULHUIJZEN
I'm running 3.4-RELEASE. DocWilco Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13 12:57 PM I'm forwarding this from the GTK development list. According to Owen their is something wrong with the threads implementation Is that true? or is it a "It's not the way Linux works, so it

Re: Pthreads

2000-01-13 Thread Daniel Eischen
Quick question, Does anyone on here know what the equivelant macro for PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITALIZER_NP is under freebsd? I cant find anything like this in pthread.h, and Im wondering without it what do I use to initialize a recursive mutex. Any advice would be appreciated Well,

Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_fbsd Makefile

2000-01-13 Thread Daniel Eischen
Consider as an example that open() is a thread cancellation point according to POSIX. If libpthread overrides the libc open() with its own version of open(), then by extension, every function that calls open() can potentially cause thread cancellation. This propagation of cancellation

Re: Fwd: Re: GTK threading on FreeBSD (and possibly other unices)

2000-01-13 Thread Daniel Eischen
I'm running 3.4-RELEASE. Try upgrading to -stable and see if that helps. There were some changes recently merged from -current. If the application uses signals to wakeup threads, then perhaps the -stable version may fix the problems your seeing. Dan Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-13 Thread George Cox
On 12/01 17:09, Michael Lucas wrote: Minesweeper can only fill so many hours in a day, after all. Must be a long day in your part of the world, then, because it's an NP-complete problem! (http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw.htm) Heh :-) obSources: try

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-13 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Luoqi Chen wrote: It's almost a regular fork(), we lose all the advantages of a single address space. A rfork(RFMEM) wrapper can achieve the same level of usability without sacrificing the performance, and IMO is a preferred solution. I don't see this at all. You get

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2400 RCC PCI chipset?

2000-01-13 Thread NOKUBI Hirotaka
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:49:59 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: The RCC is probably this one: pci: unknown ATA vendor = 0x1166, device = 0x0211 I wonder why it flags it as a ATA device, I'm pretty sure this is the RCC chip --

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-13 Thread Peter Wemm
"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Luoqi Chen wrote: It's almost a regular fork(), we lose all the advantages of a single address space. A rfork(RFMEM) wrapper can achieve the same level of usability without sacrificing the performance, and IMO is a preferred solution.

Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_fbsd Makefile

2000-01-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 07:18:12AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: Use _open internally within libc and libpthread. Have one "open" entry point that is the cancellation version of open. This is what it appears Solaris 7 does. -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_fbsd Makefile

2000-01-13 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 07:18:12AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: Use _open internally within libc and libpthread. Have one "open" entry point that is the cancellation version of open. This is what it appears Solaris 7 does. Yeah, I've noticed

No Subject

2000-01-13 Thread Ramiro Amaya
I am new in this mail list, so I do not have so much experience about the questions I should ask, If I am in the worng place let me know, please. Well my question is related with Solaris 2.6, the story is like this: I have a Solaris 2.5 server which has configured all the printers so I can

Re: your mail

2000-01-13 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000, Ramiro Amaya wrote: I am new in this mail list, so I do not have so much experience about the questions I should ask, If I am in the worng place let me know, please. Well my question is related with Solaris 2.6, the story is like this: What does this have to do with

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-13 Thread Michael Lucas
Wes Peters wrote: Michael Lucas wrote: I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up with the tedium. So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the logical place to

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-13 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: PS: Anyone know the status of zp0 in -current? It was a hack and it was put to sleep by someone wielding an axe. -- - bill fumerola - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_fbsd Makefile

2000-01-13 Thread Jason Evans
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 07:18:12AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: Consider as an example that open() is a thread cancellation point according to POSIX. If libpthread overrides the libc open() with its own version of open(), then by extension, every function that calls open() can potentially

Re: your mail

2000-01-13 Thread Ryan Thompson
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Ramiro Amaya wrote: I am new in this mail list, so I do not have so much experience about the questions I should ask, If I am in the worng place let me know, please. Well my question is related with Solaris 2.6, the story is like this: I have a Solaris 2.5 server

Re: your mail

2000-01-13 Thread Gene Harris
This list is for FreeBSD, not Solaris. *==* *Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com* *FreeBSD Novice* *All ORBS.org SMTP connections are denied! * *==* On Thu, 13

Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_fbsd Makefile

2000-01-13 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jason Evans wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 07:18:12AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: Consider as an example that open() is a thread cancellation point according to POSIX. If libpthread overrides the libc open() with its own version of open(), then by extension,

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-13 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: The last two paragraphs are the most relevant to us. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-encryption.html Have we had an opportunity to have the Walnut Creek (or other) legal staff review the actual rules for gotchas? -- "Where

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-13 Thread Wes Peters
Oliver Fromme wrote: Basically, does this mean something like tar cf - /usr/src/crypto | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? :-) No. Mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", Hilary is handling the database. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-13 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Have we had an opportunity to have the Walnut Creek (or other) legal staff review the actual rules for gotchas? No, this is something I hope to sit down with our corporate counsel over very shortly. It's an annoying drive to San Jose from here, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. :) -

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-13 Thread Wes Peters
"Christopher R. Bowman" wrote: The last paragraph would be a step in the right direction but still seems silly. What are they going to do with it? I would really like to see people educate them on the stupidity of sending code to Washington. I think it would be neat if there was one of

UDF

2000-01-13 Thread Brian Beattie
I have been looking at UDF ( the filesystem used on CD-RW and DVD's ). I was wondering if anybody was working on it. I'm thinking about trying to implement it for CD-RW's and would like to avoid duplication of effort and the anoyance of getting half way through the effort and having somebody

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:09:29 -0500 (EST), Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up with the tedium. How does one go about getting such contracts? So, if I was

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2400 RCC PCI chipset?

2000-01-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOKUBI Hirotaka writes: : I also want to know a URL. : : My NEC PC98 (using x86 CPU, but not PC-AT compatible) uses : RCC Champion as it's chipset. (Sorry not Champion II/III, it's slightly : old machine.) I'll attach dmesg from it. : : RCC Champion is attached like

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-13 Thread Wes Peters
Michael Lucas wrote: Wes Peters wrote: Michael Lucas wrote: I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up with the tedium. So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys,

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic)

2000-01-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : Modern flash chips support on the order of 1,000,000 write cycles, so this : is not such a concern anymore. There is no reason why we shouldn't put : a filesystem on a flash card. We weren't talking about modern flash cards :-). These flash