Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-26 Thread Mike Castle
across a variety of OSes? Would the recent caching difficulties of the 2.4.* series have handled such a technique in a reasonable fashion? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-26 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > These flags would be really handy. We already have the raw device for > sequential reading of e.g. CDROM and DVD devices. Not going to help 99% of the applications out there. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PRO

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-26 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: These flags would be really handy. We already have the raw device for sequential reading of e.g. CDROM and DVD devices. Not going to help 99% of the applications out there. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-26 Thread Mike Castle
a variety of OSes? Would the recent caching difficulties of the 2.4.* series have handled such a technique in a reasonable fashion? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Castle
Actually, the server was the only RT, the rest were some other model that was basically a PS/2 (286) that booted DOS, then booted the other same chip that the RT used that was on a daughter card. AOS was basically IBM's version of BSD. Academic Operating System. mrc -- Mike Castle

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Castle
, the server was the only RT, the rest were some other model that was basically a PS/2 (286) that booted DOS, then booted the other same chip that the RT used that was on a daughter card. AOS was basically IBM's version of BSD. Academic Operating System. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why use threads ( was: Alan Cox quote?)

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Castle
sing some > infrequently used code that was swapped to a busy disk), your server will > keep on humming. This same approach can easily be used by multiple processes. I don't see what is gained by using threads over processes for such an architecture. mrc -- Mike Castle [

Re: Why use threads ( was: Alan Cox quote?)

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Castle
infrequently used code that was swapped to a busy disk), your server will keep on humming. This same approach can easily be used by multiple processes. I don't see what is gained by using threads over processes for such an architecture. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to compile on one machine and install on another?

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0400, John Weber wrote: > On a related note... is System.map also necessary? Anyone care to explain Debugging. ksymoops and klogd can both make use of it. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:30:54PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > Yeah, and we are young and prolific too, so you better watch out! :) Prolific != competent. -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watch

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
ication, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...). How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much on the CPU? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ W

Re: How to compile on one machine and install on another?

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
filesystem with root permissions > enabled...any security bells going off? Why would you need to have nfs root access? You're reading from the nfs mount, not writing to it. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manha

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:37:12AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > > Also, I could never actually find the "too fat" quote anywhere. > > I can personally vouch for the too fat comment, I've heard him say it

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
d." Also, I could never actually find the "too fat" quote anywhere. Best I could find was one of Pike's papers on the plan9 site. Best that I can tell is that both of these quotes are Urban Legends. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
find the too fat quote anywhere. Best I could find was one of Pike's papers on the plan9 site. Best that I can tell is that both of these quotes are Urban Legends. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:37:12AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: Also, I could never actually find the too fat quote anywhere. I can personally vouch for the too fat comment, I've heard him say it in person. What about the UNIX

Re: How to compile on one machine and install on another?

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
enabled...any security bells going off? Why would you need to have nfs root access? You're reading from the nfs mount, not writing to it. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...). How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much on the CPU? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:30:54PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: Yeah, and we are young and prolific too, so you better watch out! :) Prolific != competent. -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen

Re: How to compile on one machine and install on another?

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0400, John Weber wrote: On a related note... is System.map also necessary? Anyone care to explain Debugging. ksymoops and klogd can both make use of it. mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us

Re: threading question (results after thread pooling)

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Castle
p waiting. For curiosities sake, at what point would this technique result in a thundering herd issue? Does it happen near the level at which the number of schedulable entities equal the number of processors or does it have to be much greater than that? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL

Re: threading question (results after thread pooling)

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Castle
. For curiosities sake, at what point would this technique result in a thundering herd issue? Does it happen near the level at which the number of schedulable entities equal the number of processors or does it have to be much greater than that? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:25:54PM -0400, Russell Leighton wrote: > Any recommendations for alternate threading packages? Does NSPR use native methods (ie, clone), or just ride on top of pthreads? What about the gnu threading package? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:25:54PM -0400, Russell Leighton wrote: Any recommendations for alternate threading packages? Does NSPR use native methods (ie, clone), or just ride on top of pthreads? What about the gnu threading package? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-02 Thread Mike Castle
ad. From the Use a temp fd_set and assignment. fd_set readset; readset=set_to_watch select(n, readset, NULL, NULL, timeout); mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-02 Thread Mike Castle
a temp fd_set and assignment. fd_set readset; readset=set_to_watch select(n, readset, NULL, NULL, timeout); mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal (You are in a maze of twisty

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:44:39PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > Lots. Maybe we oughta have /proc/sysconf/... (there's no reason > sysconf() can't be a library reading /proc). You don't mount proc? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We a

Re: ln -s broken on 2.4.5

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:30:05PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > The problem is only there if you specify a directory for the linked to > component. > > [marcus@wine /tmp]$ strace -f ln -s fupp/berk xxx Is it only a directory, or the length? ln -s fupp_berk xxx for instance. -

Re: ln -s broken on 2.4.5

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:30:05PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: The problem is only there if you specify a directory for the linked to component. [marcus@wine /tmp]$ strace -f ln -s fupp/berk xxx Is it only a directory, or the length? ln -s fupp_berk xxx for instance. -- Mike

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:44:39PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: Lots. Maybe we oughta have /proc/sysconf/... (there's no reason sysconf() can't be a library reading /proc). You don't mount proc? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-05-29 Thread Mike Castle
The comment seems to indicate that if retval is 0, then FD_ISSET will be false. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-05-29 Thread Mike Castle
to indicate that if retval is 0, then FD_ISSET will be false. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us

Re: [2.4.5] buz.c won't compile

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:15:04PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: > PS: I really hate it when people break "functional" things in the "stable" > tree. (functional and stable are both open to debate.) I was under the impression that it really wasn't functional.

Re: File read.

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Castle
But generally you don't want to. Use a user mode application to feed you the data instead. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- m

Re: File read.

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Castle
mode application to feed you the data instead. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living

Re: [2.4.5] buz.c won't compile

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:15:04PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: PS: I really hate it when people break functional things in the stable tree. (functional and stable are both open to debate.) I was under the impression that it really wasn't functional. mrc -- Mike Castle Life

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:33:20PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: > Not only that, but Alan said that somebody is rewriting it in C. I'll believe it when I see it. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not w

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:33:20PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: Not only that, but Alan said that somebody is rewriting it in C. I'll believe it when I see it. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-20 Thread Mike Castle
savvy enough to install python. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Man

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-20 Thread Mike Castle
to install python. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-18 Thread Mike Castle
You! (randomly points to a process) take a seat! You're not running for a while!" and the process gets totatlly swapped out for a "while," not even scheduled? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Mike Castle
d to deal > with installing/upgrading it just for CML2. Some don't like installing/upgrading the following just for a kernel: gcc binutils modutils mount Not to mention netfilter. -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Mike Castle
991 K. Richard Pixley (rich at cygnus.com) * configure: added -V for version number option. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Mike Castle
. Richard Pixley (rich at cygnus.com) * configure: added -V for version number option. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread Mike Castle
with installing/upgrading it just for CML2. Some don't like installing/upgrading the following just for a kernel: gcc binutils modutils mount Not to mention netfilter. -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-18 Thread Mike Castle
to a process) take a seat! You're not running for a while! and the process gets totatlly swapped out for a while, not even scheduled? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Castle
ERSION, that will *ONLY* be set during make USERVERSION=foo. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Castle
, that will *ONLY* be set during make USERVERSION=foo. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living

Re: Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem

2001-05-03 Thread Mike Castle
nition) with a later kernel version? We're going to have hundreds of people complaining about this. Not just one or two. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be

Re: Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem

2001-05-03 Thread Mike Castle
) with a later kernel version? We're going to have hundreds of people complaining about this. Not just one or two. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right

Re: 2.4.3+ sound distortion

2001-04-22 Thread Mike Castle
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.0/0233.html http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.1/0231.html That is, the change in how nice is recalculated. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all th

Re: 2.4.3+ sound distortion

2001-04-22 Thread Mike Castle
://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.0/0233.html http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.1/0231.html That is, the change in how nice is recalculated. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

2001-04-19 Thread Mike Castle
esters might want should use something other than the CONFIG_ namespace. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We a

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

2001-04-19 Thread Mike Castle
want should use something other than the CONFIG_ namespace. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living

PS2 mouse data point

2001-04-12 Thread Mike Castle
osts about similar issues in the linux-kernel archive, but no documented solution. Certainly nothing so simple as "enable the stupid thing in BIOS." So for archival sake... here it is. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and b

PS2 mouse data point

2001-04-12 Thread Mike Castle
osts about similar issues in the linux-kernel archive, but no documented solution. Certainly nothing so simple as "enable the stupid thing in BIOS." So for archival sake... here it is. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and b

Re: bizarre TCP behavior

2001-04-10 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:21:42AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Try echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > If it helps complain to the sites that their firewall is broken. It's certain that this refers only to the site firewall? I had to do this to get to www.ibm.com. :-< mrc --

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-10 Thread Mike Castle
rhaps a mechanism a user space program can use to communicate to the kernel (ala arpd/kerneld message queues, or something like klogd). Then a more general user space tool could be used that would do policy appropriate stuff, ending with init 0. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a cloc

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-10 Thread Mike Castle
ernel (ala arpd/kerneld message queues, or something like klogd). Then a more general user space tool could be used that would do policy appropriate stuff, ending with init 0. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right al

Re: bizarre TCP behavior

2001-04-10 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:21:42AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Try echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn If it helps complain to the sites that their firewall is broken. It's certain that this refers only to the site firewall? I had to do this to get to www.ibm.com. :- mrc -- Mike Castle

Re: gcc-2.95.3

2001-04-05 Thread Mike Castle
than I have normally with this cheesey motherboard :-]. At least the long long computation bug on non i686 compilations is fixed with 2.95.3. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.

Re: gcc-2.95.3

2001-04-05 Thread Mike Castle
with this cheesey motherboard :-]. At least the long long computation bug on non i686 compilations is fixed with 2.95.3. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Castle
D patches, sets up EXTRAVERSION to a specific value. I do with the make file also had a USERVERSION that would be hands off for anyone but the builder. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not wo

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Castle
, sets up EXTRAVERSION to a specific value. I do with the make file also had a USERVERSION that would be hands off for anyone but the builder. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all

2.4.2 IDE data point

2001-03-29 Thread Mike Castle
X=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA19W=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA49W=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_MCT_U232=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_OMNINET=m # # USB misc drivers # CONFIG_USB_RIO500=m # # Kernel hacking # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [

2.4.2 IDE data point

2001-03-29 Thread Mike Castle
EYSPAN_USA19W=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA49W=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_MCT_U232=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_OMNINET=m # # USB misc drivers # CONFIG_USB_RIO500=m # # Kernel hacking # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all th

Re: [PATCH] use correct include dir for build tools

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Castle
ble to build against a later kernel version than you're running on, and determine at run time what features may or may not be there, so one could have a 2.4.2 kernel handy to build libc against while still running a 2.2.18 kernel. Theoretically.) mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clo

Re: [PATCH] use correct include dir for build tools

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Castle
against a later kernel version than you're running on, and determine at run time what features may or may not be there, so one could have a 2.4.2 kernel handy to build libc against while still running a 2.2.18 kernel. Theoretically.) mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:39PM -0600, Matt Stegman wrote: > Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize, > and execute gzipped executables? What's wrong with using gzexe? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:39PM -0600, Matt Stegman wrote: Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize, and execute gzipped executables? What's wrong with using gzexe? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Castle
; it would make more since to be consistent with that. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us livi

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Castle
t would make more since to be consistent with that. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Castle
e in a while. If you never hit swap, then reduce it or eliminate it. If you are constantly running over 1/3 of it or so, might consider upping it a little bit. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Castle
, then reduce it or eliminate it. If you are constantly running over 1/3 of it or so, might consider upping it a little bit. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right

Re: Documenting stat(2)

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:52:02PM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > I use lstat to check if a config file is a symlink, and if it is, it > refuses to open it. Nice race condition. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be

Re: Documenting stat(2)

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:52:02PM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: I use lstat to check if a config file is a symlink, and if it is, it refuses to open it. Nice race condition. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right

Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Castle
ved in ORBit and GNOME? Or just a big supporter? :-> mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us livin

Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Castle
and GNOME? Or just a big supporter? :- mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-26 Thread Mike Castle
er seeing anything come across this list. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-26 Thread Mike Castle
come across this list. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:47:09PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > tmp = *p++; > *q = f(tmp, *p++); > return p; > > is equivalent to more idiomatic > > *q = f(p[0], p[1]); > return p+2; Which gets better assembler out of various versions of gcc? mrc -- Mike C

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:47:09PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: tmp = *p++; *q = f(tmp, *p++); return p; is equivalent to more idiomatic *q = f(p[0], p[1]); return p+2; Which gets better assembler out of various versions of gcc? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock

Re: (OT -- Partition Magic for Linux?) Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Mike Castle
g/gnu/parted -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen - To unsu

Re: (OT -- Partition Magic for Linux?) Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Mike Castle
-- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.2 Backport Terminated ...

2000-09-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:31:07PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Do to limits in personal bandwidth and other projects that need to get > done, I can no longer keep up the back port of the ATA code. Bummer. The 2.2.17 ide code doesn't work for me. I used to use 2.2.15pre15 with ide. With

Re: 2.2 Backport Terminated ...

2000-09-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:31:07PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Do to limits in personal bandwidth and other projects that need to get done, I can no longer keep up the back port of the ATA code. Bummer. The 2.2.17 ide code doesn't work for me. I used to use 2.2.15pre15 with ide. With

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:57:38PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > So basically the situation is that people prefer to switch the whole > OS as opposed to applying a kernel patch? Or multiple kernel patches. NFS. RAID. IDE. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You ca

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:57:38PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: So basically the situation is that people prefer to switch the whole OS as opposed to applying a kernel patch? Or multiple kernel patches. NFS. RAID. IDE. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work