Re: mouse won't work

1998-10-12 Thread Vitaly Fedrushkov
Good $daytime, Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:48:33 PDT From: Shekhar Shenvikerkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mouse won't work I used the getmouse() function from the ncurses library. But the function is not working. Heard of the gpm server.But the man pages did not

Re: delay execution in the kernel level code.

1998-10-12 Thread Glynn Clements
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: So I thougt the defined HZ has to be changed as a 1000 (as you know, 100 is a default). If you change the value of HZ, bad things may happen. If bad things will happen you' ll found a bug in the kernel. That depends upon what you change it to, I guess. I

Re: delay execution in the kernel level code.

1998-10-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: If you change the value of HZ, bad things may happen. If bad things will happen you' ll found a bug in the kernel. That depends upon what you change it to, I guess. I wouldn't expect to be able to set HZ to 1E9 and still have a functioning system.

Re: delay execution in the kernel level code.

1998-10-12 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
Would this include flip buffers overflowing? (I thought that was sync'd to HZ). What's a flip bluffer? Do you mean a flip-flop? I guess it could be a pair of DMA buffers where another buffer gets processed with CPU while another buffer is filling... and when the second buffer is full, the

Re: mouse won't work

1998-10-12 Thread David Ross
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:48:33 PDT Shekhar Shenvikerkar wrote: I used the getmouse() function from the ncurses library. But the function is not working. Heard of the gpm server.But the man pages did not help. There is a serial Programming HOWTO. The gpm package can be found on most if not

Re: delay execution in the kernel level code.

1998-10-12 Thread David Ross
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:36:23 -0700 Andrew Philip Bell wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: So I thougt the defined HZ has to be changed as a 1000 (as you know, 100 is a default). If you change the value of HZ, bad things may happen.

Re: delay execution in the kernel level code.

1998-10-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Andrew Philip Bell wrote: rdtsc()), then several context switches could (and would) throw off this check. rdtsc is the asm instruction available on =Pentium arch. Other arch has their own way to read the timestamp counter. The rdtsc instruction is not linux specific and

gdb and fork()

1998-10-12 Thread Anukool Lakhina
Hi, Does gdb allow me to trace the actions of a specific child process that has been forked? If so, how? Thanks. anukool.