Re: 10.3 and reboot -r (reroot)

esirable. It may be better to use the original argv[0]. The kernel passes a full pathname here. While reading the code, I noticed another issue. The kill(-1, SIGKILL) may fail with [ESRCH] if there is no process to kill. In this case, the reroot should continue. This problem sometimes occurs fo

Re: cp from NFS to ZFS hung in "fifoor"

nd first, for example by checking what has been copied already) for writing, like : >/path/to/some/fifo. It will be replaced with an empty file at the destination. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.

Re: Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit

()'s mask contains SIGTHR. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 04:41:30PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:01:38PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: Looks good to me, except that I think a vforked child (in system() and posix_spawn*()) should use the system calls and not libthr's wrappers. This reduces

Re: script(1), cfmakeraw() and Ctrl-Z

running within script get all control characters. For example, you can suspend a job in the inner shell using Ctrl+Z. This indeed makes it impossible to suspend script itself. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD 9: fdisk -It crashes kernel

it. I'll fix my script to not do this, but it seems odd that fdisk -It can make the disk go away. Yes, that seems wrong. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: ipv6_addrs_IF aliases in rc.conf(5)

versions you can use hexdigit and hexprint from network.subr. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: /bin/sh arithmetic doesn't seem to like leading 0 now

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:26:37PM +, David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: $ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 )) arithmetic expression: expecting ')': ( 09 - 1

Re: /bin/sh arithmetic doesn't seem to like leading 0 now

the leading zero for values 10). But I'd rather not do that if I don't need to.) You can use date +%-m although it is not in POSIX. With POSIX only, it is still possible to do it reasonably efficiently, for example $(( 1$(date +%m) - 100 )) or v=$(date +%m); v=${v#0}. -- Jilles Tjoelker

Re: Too many open files

in a jail. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: A problem with MAXPATHLEN on a back

the remaining part is shorter than MAXPATHLEN). -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: GENERIC make buildkernel error / fails - posix_fadvise

not aware of which does this, it could serve as the right-hand side of this. This does not handle all possible characters in filenames, such as a newline. The perlrun manpage suggests something with find's -print0 primary. Alternatively, use find's -unlink primary. -- Jilles Tjoelker

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

... There is a suspicion that the problems stem from the sections of code associated with the SMP... Maybe I'm in something wrong, but I want to help in solving this problem ... -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: /usr/bin/script eating 100% cpu with portupgrade and xargs

if the application is changing termios settings concurrently and generally feels bad. It may be best to remove writing EOF characters, perhaps adding an option to enable it again if there is a concrete use case for it. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable

Re: sigwait return 4

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:29:29AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:56:09PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: sigwait() was fixed not to return EINTR in 9-current in r212405 (fixed up in r219709). The discussion started at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd

Re: sigwait return 4

() may return EINTR. SA_RESTART applies to sigwaitinfo() but not to sigtimedwait() (because the timeout cannot be restarted). -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Change in behavior to stat(1)

was already given, but for that command, isn't it sufficient to do if ! [ -e $link ]; then rm $link; fi All test(1)'s primaries that test things about files follow symlinks, except for -h/-L. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Policy on static linking ?

=guestpass=guest -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Policy on static linking ?

overhead, consider using PCBSD's PBI system which allows you to ship all necessary .so files (except system ones) with your application. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: utmp.h exists or not in RELENG_8?

by the configure process. Partly because the various unix variant developers have made a mess of utmp/utmpx, the code to use it is rather fragile. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: mysqld_safe holding open a pty/tty on FreeBSD (7.x and 8.x)

in the program itself. Think of the poor soul who needs to install and start N daemons full of bugs and configuration errors: it is better if such errors show up on the console instead of being hidden away in a log file. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd

Re: daily run output 800.scrub-zfs fixups

have a case where it does not work, it would be nice if you could add a set -x in the beginning of the script and send me the output of a failing run. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: SIGEPIPE after update to 8.1-RC2

problems. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: SIGEPIPE after update to 8.1-RC2

in procstat should be helpful in finding what exactly is wrong with SIGPIPE. (These options are relatively new, but should be in 8.1.) -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: calcru: runtime went backwards messages

calcru detects this, it generates messages like the above. If this analysis is right, the messages can be ignored, but indicate that CPU time statistics may be inaccurate. I suppose fairly arbitrary changes can cause the messages to appear or disappear. -- Jilles Tjoelker

Re: locale-related build problems (was: kernel build failed)

process, possibly only for these awk commands. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Can close-ing a pipe trigger a SIGPIPE?

tclsh8.5 CALL close(0x5) 92722 tclsh8.5 RET close 0 92722 tclsh8.5 CALL close(0x4) 92722 tclsh8.5 RET close 0 It seems unwise to assume that a write(2) of 0 bytes is a noop. Even if it is, doing it is a waste of a system call. -- Jilles Tjoelker

Re: Value of $? lost in the beginning of a function.

. The previous exit status was saved twice and thus lost. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Why old files in /etc ?

mergemaster's -F or -U options. This question has been asked before. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores

in a separately allocated structure, to preserve flexibility. Perhaps a better method is to set bit 0 of the sem_t to 1 and use the other bits to store the semid_t. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: 7.2-RC2 Install Feedback

manually. XFCE also needs the desktop files in the new location. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ for more information. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: expand_number(3) silently truncates numeric part of the argument to 32 bit on i386, light impact on gjournal

is slightly changed in CURRENT but the same patch should apply. -- Jilles Tjoelker --- src/lib/libutil/expand_number.c.orig 2007-09-05 16:27:13.0 +0200 +++ src/lib/libutil/expand_number.c 2008-07-06 13:11:02.766238000 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include errno.h #include libutil.h #include

Re: panic(): vinvalbuf: dirty bufs: perhaps a ffs_syncvnode bug?

. However, in at least one case (vm_object_terminate()), the error will be ignored; this may cause old garbage/dangling references? -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: rc-ng problem with [procname] (e.g. kernel threaded procs)

}))' + $_procname|$_procnamebn|${_procnamebn}:|(${_procnamebn}))' fi _proccheck=' -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : kldload random missing?

another. The # REQUIRE: lines affect rcorder(8) so it should be ok on bootup. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB mouse troubles

the device. A somewhat crude workaround would be to load the drivers for the devices to be used before starting usbd. This would mean /boot/loader.conf, most likely. -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Just a sanity check before I sumbit a buig report

or they are something strange like one per second. Consequently, this facility is nonportable and the tick frequency should be described using sysctl(). -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

5.3-RELEASE-p5 panic bundirty: buffer 0xd63d85e0 still on queue 1

) number of mbufs in use # netstat -m -N kernel.debug.28 -M vmcore.28 4045 mbufs in use Segmentation fault # vmstat -z -N kernel.debug.28 -M vmcore.28 vmstat: not implemented # ^D Script done on Mon Feb 21 17:21:35 2005 -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable

Re: USB scanner not attached when connected after system startup]

for one reason or another. Try all USB ports on your computer; use MAKEDEV to create /dev/usb1, /dev/usb2, etc (they are not created by default). -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

unkillable processes after debugging on 5.3R

peters zsh20328 13* error [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jilles% -- Jilles Tjoelker ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]