Why can't I sendto() to 127.255.255.255

2007-04-30 Thread Abraham K. Mathen
Hello freebsd-hackers, I wrote a short program (on FreeBSD 6.0), that attempts to call sendto() on a UDP socket, with 127.255.255.255 as the destination address. It failed - with errno 49 (EADDRNOTAVAIL). Setting SO_BROADCAST and IP_ONESBCAST did not help. After examining - various RFC's, -

RE: Why can't I sendto() to 127.255.255.255

2007-04-30 Thread David S. Madole
From: Abraham K. Mathen on Monday, April 30, 2007 5:54 AM I wrote a short program (on FreeBSD 6.0), that attempts to call sendto() on a UDP socket, with 127.255.255.255 as the destination address. It failed - with errno 49 (EADDRNOTAVAIL). Setting SO_BROADCAST and IP_ONESBCAST did not

Re: msleep() on recursivly locked mutexes

2007-04-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 27 April 2007 02:32:20 pm Hans Petter Selasky wrote: P0 unlock(1); P0 unlock(2); this looks interesting. Can you give a more concrete example of this? what work is done in the upcall? WHo is upcalling to who? For example an USB device driver might be up-calling to the