Re: mmap() vs. character special file

' entry in their struct cdevsw. -- Peter Jeremy pgpin6CJBTge7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

scratch. In the 'FreeBSD Disklabel Editor' window, scroll down to your partitions and either 'D'elete them all and re-create using 'A'uto or toggle the 'N'ewfs flag and set the 'M'ount point. -- Peter Jeremy pgpc3RS1KM5eP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLEX, was Re: Return value of malloc(0)

the #line directives, compiling it and posting the exact gcc error and source context. It may be a gcc bug, it may be a HLA bug or it could be an interaction between the FreeBSD headers and HLA. -- Peter Jeremy pgpp9mRIaGDPu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLEX, was Re: Return value of malloc(0)

or unexpected warnings. And, since flex is used several times during a buildworld, any generic problems would show up very quickly. -- Peter Jeremy pgpgHVxdRwirz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: contiguous memory allocation problem

to avoid the need to allocate large contiguous memory chunks. iedowse@ had mostly finished implementing this in mid May. -- Peter Jeremy pgpUwMhO0qV2o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: contiguous memory allocation problem

when it's in use). -- Peter Jeremy pgp0xtUxn80DA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Stop further socket() or connect() calls.

was looking for a way to write a small wrapper program that disables network access and then exec()'s a given program. For dynamic executables, you could LD_PRELOAD a .so that replaces all the socket-related syscalls. -- Peter Jeremy pgpm3GjTuUwBQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

doubt either are true. -- Peter Jeremy pgpfFCcuCnb0C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

a system call - which is comparatively expensive. -- Peter Jeremy pgpE8zWwKy0Fz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Programs not accepting input?

To resurrect a fairly old thread... On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 11:23:42 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: My work system runs separate X servers on two heads (rather than ximerama) and I have problems with windows occasionally refusing

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

. -- Peter Jeremy pgpeoYIvy0spc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.0/6.1: open (/dev/lpt0 ...) hangs up

and (at first) a generic kernel? I suspect plip has outlived its usefulness. -- Peter Jeremy pgpC6TooVlPWm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

statistics gathering and see if anything anomolous is occurring. -- Peter Jeremy pgppY9q1JHybY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: VM question related to faults

an issue for accesses to userland memory, where it is solved by fetch(9) and store(9). If you need to deal with KVM addresses that may be unmapped, then all I can suggest is looking at the implementations of the above functions. -- Peter Jeremy pgprjaY0q3LGm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

market but is not true in the embedded market and only marginally true for laptops. -- Peter Jeremy pgpqSDruA6YGB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

than this for optimal efficiency. -- Peter Jeremy pgpamKbTi5BUJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

it sparse makes sense, if you will be updating it, you will get better performance by making it non-sparse. -- Peter Jeremy pgpQeKoTW1HxK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New architecture support

of interest was a result of Compaq killing the Alpha. I suspect that a HP 9000 port would be starting from a much smaller base. -- Peter Jeremy pgpIIZBCpQODq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: struct dirent question

that does: #define MAXNAMLEN 1024 ... #include sys/dirent.h ... charmybuffer[MAXNAMLEN]; -- Peter Jeremy pgp9G71sqx9ME.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Relative paths [was: Path transformation]

) by replacing the getcwd() with the first path and adding enough '../' to the second path to reach a common directory (or root) from the first path. -- Peter Jeremy pgp9uQcLzup2U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: doadump at pcpu.h:165

. This sounds like flaky hardware. Try checking cooling, PSU, RAM, cabling socketing etc. Run memtest86 or similar and try swapping components. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDkIzeysmng.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: amd64 questions

amd64 system, with an up-to-date ports tree, I suggest you take it up on freebsd-openoffice. -- Peter Jeremy pgpKnyCJmNFMg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sendmail

address for each alert. Sendmail is rejecting the messages based on the From field. Have you tried: FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains') -- Peter Jeremy pgp9vYyinaGYO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sendmail

2006SMTP response503 5.0.0 Need MAIL command I can't reproduce this with sendmail 8.13 (though I'm not sure I'm correctly replicating your environment). I suggest you either UTSL or ask on a sendmail list. -- Peter Jeremy pgp5PXKLKnFmh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

to the file (and her only way of uniquely identifying it) whilst leaving the remaining link to the file in Mallory's control. -- Peter Jeremy pgpN2P2SFT5ro.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

On Mon, 2006-Oct-30 19:38:49 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: the user is unaware that there are multiple links. I don't think that just unlinking the file and issuing a warning is a good solution because it's then virtually impossible to locate the other copy(s) of the file, which remains viewable. I

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

destroyed the content of a file they still wanted when deleting an unwanted link to the file. IMHO, rm.1 should explicitly state that rm -fP on a multi-linked file will destry the file contents as seen via the remaining link(s). This probably belongs in the NOTE section. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Java

condition and they are being cleansed as a low-priority task by at least one committer. -- Peter Jeremy pgp3JNiVFPB1y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sockstat tcp/udp switches

-proof. See getprotoent(3) for the correct way to read /etc/protocols. -- Peter Jeremy pgp2viCUWiyY6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

). Don't unnecessarily use [u]int64_t as it is comparatively inefficient on 32-bit architectures. I know Oracle (at least) avoids the problem on Tru64 by using multiple SHM segments to allow SGA exceeding 2GB. -- Peter Jeremy pgpSILO7IEYU0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: getgroups and getgrouplist functions

the number of groups some one is in is to call getgroups(0). At least in RELENG_6, getgroups(2) states that passing the first argument as 0 will return the number of groups: getgroups(0, NULL); This matches the code in the kernel. -- Peter Jeremy pgpkJtHiEMmeM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel hang on 6.x

that each SWAPMETA object manages 16 pages. And yes, that means you are setting aside a little over 146 MB of wired, physical RAM just to hold metadata for your swap. :) Given a system with 16GB RAM, this probably isn't a serious issue. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuCmNLuoT1W.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Streaming data from kernel to userland

your kernel driver. - Use kqueue(), signal() or read() a token to indicate when some amount of data is available. -- Peter Jeremy pgpT7s0FgYrbQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where to start?

the 'location' of the journal would be an inode number. The journal code would need to verify that the given inode was internally consistent before it accessed the data. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvJW05rdUBt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unique hardware identification

smbios.system.uuid 9F345F4F-BEFC-D431-1340-61235A56DEF9 -- Peter Jeremy pgpYtgc8mneB0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: a question regarding sys/shm.h

together a patch to address this and submitting it as a PR (this means addressing all references to shm_segsz in the base system, not just sys/shm.h). -- Peter Jeremy pgp8hjEZLqbWd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: a question regarding sys/shm.h

shmid_ds have already been converted, though the ones in struct ipc_perm are obsolete. At a quick glance, everything else is up to date. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/ is a useful reference in this area. -- Peter Jeremy pgpQdwA5x7yOc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unique hardware identification

populated or don't report it at all. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmFjOmTnU2t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PING: Someone on the core team. (Modem Problem)

your motherboard vendor decided to save a few deci- cents by not bothering to connect up all the available interrupt inputs and just share one. This isn't FreeBSD - it's the copper tracks on your motherboard. -- Peter Jeremy pgpc7wd5PSWnP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PING: Someone on the core team. (Modem Problem)

assigning 2 devices to the same irq to begin with? FreeBSD does support shared interrupts on busses that support them and is assigning interrupts based on information from the hardware. -- Peter Jeremy pgpr1eBARhAGz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

be close enough to count, or would it have to be C/C++? Perl was removed in 5.x. Your options are shell, awk and C/C++. -- Peter Jeremy pgpgn9xqL6jDU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sin()/cos()/tan() for kernel code? '_ 'a

support in the kernel (I ran grep -w cos on the -CURRENT source tree, which turned nothing up). Does anyone have an idea on how to do this? Floating point is not allowed in the kernel. I suggest you look up cordic in google. This is an efficient way to do fixed-point trigonometry. -- Peter

Re: PING: Someone on the core team. (Modem Problem)

in /usr/sys/dev/sio/sio.c if you want to go down this path). With a port speed of 2400, I do not drop characters. The FIFO is not enabled at speeds at or below 4800bps. -- Peter Jeremy pgp6xD58xJe5F.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PING: Someone on the core team. (Modem Problem)

-0800, Daniel Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: overflows. Is there a way for force the driver to attach as fast since it's not doing it? sio tries to attach as fast and falls back to the default if that fails. It should only fail if something else is already registered on that IRQ. -- Peter Jeremy

Abyssmal dump cache efficiency

reading it. I believe it would be worthwhile creating a todo item to investigate this more thoroughly. -- Peter Jeremy pgpK6PD6QiXC4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PING: Someone on the core team. (Modem Problem)

serial driver and I believe it will supplant sio(4) in time but I believe there are still some kludges that require sio. I'm glad you resolved your problems. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzJIopmzRS2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Abyssmal dump cache efficiency

On 2007-Feb-20 02:47:00 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/07, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried modelling a unified cache along the NetBSD line and there appears to be a massive improvement in cache performance. It's unclear how much of an improvement

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

. Have you tried increasing the number of threads to see if there's any nasty knee further to the right? Also, is there any chance of repeating this testing on one of the big Suns (or a T2000) to see how this scales to lots of cores? -- Peter Jeremy pgpiC3VLBGcaT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

sequence far more verbose. -- Peter Jeremy pgpNwLl9rfgvj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How should i start working on kernel programming?

kernel interfaces are defined in the section 9 man pages. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvLYXBRJztD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How should i start working on kernel programming?

haven't tried setting breakpoints but other kgdb functions work with KLDs. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwMNcpBaKp8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gcc plain binary format

foo.o -lc This won't work because libc in intended to work in an environment hosted on FreeBSD and needs infrastructure that is part of crt*.o Have a look in (eg) /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 for code that is intended to run without the kernel. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLbs2ZsAt0c.pgp Description: PGP

Re: RFI: Ethernet driver ported from Linux

at 16,000RPM). -- Peter Jeremy pgpYnogAgTv7J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

a good idea. tar has other disadvantages (particularly the lack of random access) as a ports archive format. ZIP was suggested as an alternative. I also question the combination of sane, easy to parse and XML. -- Peter Jeremy pgpCiBmSG1qTp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

(and something tar does anyway - you are just delaying it). This has the added benefit that nothing else can use the package until it's completely unpacked. -- Peter Jeremy pgpjQ4s6eMByT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

is that since BDB isn't self documenting, a flat file may not be any use. -- Peter Jeremy pgp4DdQEuksZO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

tool for the job (assuming one can prove what is the best tool, considering power, familiarity, etc.). Demonstrate a better tool. -- Peter Jeremy pgpy0PFUTL4bF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

On 2007-May-14 09:36:52 -0400, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Linux package systems] As far as I know, none of them handle updates from source at all. In fact, dealing with sources seems to be a noticable weakness for them. This pretty much rules them out then. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index and pkg_version for ports

this is practical. Both package names and port dependencies depend on the options that are selected as well as what other ports are already installed. A centralised ports server is not going to have access to this information. -- Peter Jeremy pgpfPtzrTbSlc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index

does not really need or use the sort of implicit dependency tracking and target transformations that make excels at. Of course, any alternative to make needs to provide a language for defining dependencies that is equally powerful and easy to use. -- Peter Jeremy pgpPFzz4p1Mss.pgp Description

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index and pkg_version for ports

=... and similar 'macro'-style constructs. -- Peter Jeremy pgpCyJ5Uh8Myq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index and pkg_version for ports

system 98% cpu 41.975 total -- Peter Jeremy pgpUpeOoZw3YV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Disk block or sector to file mapping?

the disk entirely. Bad blocks have a tendency to spread too... Definitely - once the number of soft errors starts increasing, it's time to replace the disk. -- Peter Jeremy pgpnF1TqmMnnw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using shell commands versus C equivalents

aren't running UFS without softupdates). I'll definitely look into strace'ing (not really a big fan of truss(1) yet) the operation though, just to see how fast or slow stuff is. ktrace can also provide timings. -- Peter Jeremy pgp0x3mMEp4nG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Making sense of ktrace(1) output

On 2007-Jun-18 00:39:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I was able to get ktrace output. The only problem is that ktrace(1) apparently outputs only in binary, instead of plaintext output. Can I convert it to plaintext somehow and process it? kdump(1) -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Making sense of ktrace(1) output

the output from multiple files so this patch gives you the ability to profile multiple executions of a single executable. You will still need to glue together the profiling results from each executable. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvYf1SIv8wB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Making sense of ktrace(1) output

of (eg) rtld. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXQNdgsDDXY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.1 - amd64 arch. Hangs twice a day, how can i debug problem

to be running a 9 month old -stable - have you considered updating to either 6.2 or a more recent -stable? -- Peter Jeremy pgpsgXJnIDnMJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: add closefrom() call

other benefit? -- Peter Jeremy pgphsTYS4NCig.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Path to executable of current process?

) == -1) And the buffer argument should be char[], not struct kinfo_proc. -- Peter Jeremy pgp5pk4M5uA63.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gcc -m32 option on amd64.

at amd64 headers whilst the -m32 compiler needs i386 headers in many cases. There's a non-trivial amount of work needed to actually get cross-building working. I suggest you look throught the FreeBSD-amd64 archives. -- Peter Jeremy pgp0amIJul1Bq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gcc -m32 option on amd64.

on amd64 will point to /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1, rather than /libexec/ld-elf.so.1) so the result won't execute on a FreeBSD/i386 box - but I don't see that as a problem with ld, rather the configuration. -- Peter Jeremy pgplaH2VDcPfe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CPU activity as percentage.

a defined period. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzdutJbUl9D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: linuxolator problem on amd64

On 2007-Aug-22 12:13:48 +0400, sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minimum system requirements: ... - Kernel 2.6, configured for 1000Hz tick and other low latency settings FreeBSD currently only emulates kernel 2.4. Kernel 2.6 is a SoC project. -- Peter Jeremy pgp900LFNqMKV.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Exclusive binary files

/elf_common.h and rebuild). You would need to use brandelf to patch executables built on other FreeBSD systems. There's a set of patches implementing mac_chkexec floating around see (eg) http://lists.virus.org/freebsd-security-0503/msg00042.html This might do what you want. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: CVSUP Connection Problem

server. -- Peter Jeremy pgp8eROhMga6d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Creating install CD with custom ports - how to massage INDEX file?

to be calculated and the INDEX-6 file to be built properly. In which case, you should be able to cd /usr/ports make index -- Peter Jeremy pgpUHKyAI7zJb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

it doesn't make sense to read more than you need, there still appears to be plenty of scope to combine writes. Between these two items, I would expect potential performance gains of at least 20:1. Note that I'm not suggesting that either of these items is trivial. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: packages, libfetch, and SSL

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:28:19PM -0700, David E. Thiel wrote: Sounds fine to me - I'll take a closer look at this. I'd still like to see the root CA certs merged into base so libfetch can be fixed. So would I. Does anyone object to just using the ones currently provided by the ca_root_nss

Re: floating point operations

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:40:04AM +1100, James Healy wrote: The remaining op is not easily converted to fixed point math, and we're wondering what impact a single flop on the receipt of each ACK will have. We don't have a strong understanding of the amount of overhead involved in executing a flop

Re: timers and semtimedop(2)

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:41:10PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: I need semtimedop(2). I'm thinking I can just do a semop with a SIGINT maybe. I presume you mean SIGALRM. Can someone suggest a good method for setting up a timer to deliver the signal? What sort of timers does FreeBSD offer?

Re: Some FreeBSD performance Issues

character output per time slice, or something like that? Maybe, though I don't understand why this would occur. If you time(1) your program, what are the real/user/system time breakdown? That will help clarify where the slowdown is located. Have you tried the dd(1) command suggested. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Some FreeBSD performance Issues

your code or time(1)d it as suggested? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an RFC2821-compliant MTA. pgptNezorRMJ0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

. This is an inherent part of the Unix approach to files. You could look at ports/sysutils/lsof or fstat(1). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an RFC2821-compliant MTA. pgpQPdPjDBoxX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hooking a kernelmodule-function into a timer interrupt

, but I don't know where, or how. Any tips would be very welcome. I presume that the exact rate is not critical. My suggestion would be to create a kernel thread (see kthread(9)) that uses a callout (see timeout(9)) to wake it every tick. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result

Re: Need for SysV IPC to be confined to jail instances

/freebsd-current/2006-April/062261.html -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp5VSsD43uRw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: environment strings

Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time for a main() man page? Where would it go? Section 2, 3, or 9? Hmm... I'd support that. I believe the page needs to be tied to exec (ala setjmp/longjmp), which means it either ties to execve(2) or exec*(3). Note that execve(2) already includes a

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

Bill Fumerola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless there is strong feelings against it, I'd like to commit the smb patches (as seen on www.samba.org) and ipsec/ike patches (recently mailed to the tcpdump mailing list and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to tcpdump(1). I also think it's a good idea. Judging from

Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :)

Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - How can I choose a guaranteed free TCP port? www.iana.org IANA -- Internat Assigned Numbers Authority This is fine in theory, but doesn't work quite as well in practice. I spent several years (unsuccessfully) trying to convince a sister company that

Re: telnetd

Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What purpose is served by the twisty maze of ifdefs in telnetd? Probably for portability. I'd like to unifdef many of them. I'm trying to track down a bug and the twisty maze makes it very hard to follow. Comments? There's nothing stopping you unifdefing

Re: Determining the return address

Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: specifically how you say you increment it, then decrement it, if you have multiple handlers where one can interupt another you can have the counter get jumbled. Not if increment / decrement is atomic.

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #553

John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and even then, I don't believe in filling sockaddr_in w/ bzero, I believe in using getsockaddr on it so that you actually get all the fields filled out properly... % man getsockaddr No manual entry for getsockaddr % The only getsockaddr() I can find in

Proposal for new syscall to close files

It's fairly common, when spawning new processes, to want to make sure all unwanted FDs are closed. Currently, the options for doing this are: 1) Use fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) to set the close-on-exec flag when the file is opened/cloned. This may not be practical if the FD must

Re: speed of file(1)

Ville-Pertti Keinonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jeremy) writes: I can't believe these figures. Based on the figures below, maybe I was overly hasty in this statement. The changes between 2.x and 3.x magic files have far more impact than I would have expected. What

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

Ville-Pertti Keinonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that there are race conditions in your code. It was intended as a first cut, rather than tested code. Note that most of it was lifted from the code for select() and fdcloseexec(). If it ever gets committed (I don't think it's particularly

Re: speed of file(1)

I wrote: Looking at ktrace with MALLOC_OPTIONS=U, it does do a lot of realloc()ing (once for every 20 active lines in .../magic) and sbrk()s to a maximum size of ~390KB - not really significant. and in a later message: When I profile file in a slow system (like a 386 or 486), there is an

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

"John W. DeBoskey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like this approach. I have a number of often spawned daemon processes that could benefit from this. I don't suppose that you have any statistics showing that the for (i = 3; i getdtablesize(); i++) close(i); approach would be too slow?

Re: replacing grep(1)

Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The more complete the feature set, the better off we are for my money. Someone offering money? Quick, who's got the donations hat... :-) Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

What's new in Linux 2.4

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 specification", which is further expanded in a followup

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

Assar Westerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an enhancement, the strtol() check should verify that the passed service number is completely numeric: --- inetd.c.orig Mon Aug 2 22:35:28 1999 +++ inetd.c Mon Aug 2 22:41:52 1999 @@ -830,34 +830,50 @@ continue;

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