RE: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Jagdis
> I hope the following adds a more direct perspective on this, as I > was a user at the time. I was _almost_ at university :-). However I do have a first edition of the IBM Xenix Software Development Guide from december 1984. It has '84 IBM copyright and '83 MS copyright. The SCO stuff I have

RE: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Jagdis
I hope the following adds a more direct perspective on this, as I was a user at the time. I was _almost_ at university :-). However I do have a first edition of the IBM Xenix Software Development Guide from december 1984. It has '84 IBM copyright and '83 MS copyright. The SCO stuff I have goes

RE: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-30 Thread Mike Jagdis
Here's something I did last year and then put on ice, partly through lack of time and partly because I thought I'd pick it up for 2.5. All this talk of event queues misses one thing: we already have an event queue mechanism. They're called wait queues. The only problem is that the only

RE: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-30 Thread Mike Jagdis
Here's something I did last year and then put on ice, partly through lack of time and partly because I thought I'd pick it up for 2.5. All this talk of event queues misses one thing: we already have an event queue mechanism. They're called wait queues. The only problem is that the only

RE: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-13 Thread Mike Jagdis
> Right you are, both of you. I guess was confusing 'route' with > 'interface' and didn't think of using multiple routes like that. It > would be a kludge but whatever gets the job done.. No more than some of the other route attributes like window, rtt, mtu, ssthresh etc.

RE: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-13 Thread Mike Jagdis
> [Mike Jagdis] > > Is there anyway that we could make ECN enable/disable a flag on a route? > > Would it help? It seems to me that typically, your busiest, best- > connected routes are the ones where you could derive the most benefit > from ECN -- and those same routes are

RE: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-13 Thread Mike Jagdis
[Mike Jagdis] Is there anyway that we could make ECN enable/disable a flag on a route? Would it help? It seems to me that typically, your busiest, best- connected routes are the ones where you could derive the most benefit from ECN -- and those same routes are where you are likely to find

RE: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-05 Thread Mike Jagdis
> More with their firewall. But try > > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Is there anyway that we could make ECN enable/disable a flag on a route? Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

RE: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-05 Thread Mike Jagdis
More with their firewall. But try echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Is there anyway that we could make ECN enable/disable a flag on a route? Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

RE: Availability of kdb

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Jagdis
> Q: Then why isn't kdb in the kernel? > A: Uh... More to the point, why don't the people that want a kernel debugger maintain kdb and simply drop in the patch when they need it? If Jeff releases his debugger will anyone care enough to maintain it? Less talk, more action methinks :-).

RE: Availability of kdb

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Jagdis
Q: Then why isn't kdb in the kernel? A: Uh... More to the point, why don't the people that want a kernel debugger maintain kdb and simply drop in the patch when they need it? If Jeff releases his debugger will anyone care enough to maintain it? Less talk, more action methinks :-).

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-06 Thread Mike Jagdis
> What IS this urge to be handicapped > when trying to debug the most important pieces of what gets > delivered on the distribution CDROMs. Is it, "I'm so hairy chested > that I can code with one metaphorical arm tied behind my > equally cliched back?" There are those that like to visualize

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-06 Thread Mike Jagdis
What IS this urge to be handicapped when trying to debug the most important pieces of what gets delivered on the distribution CDROMs. Is it, "I'm so hairy chested that I can code with one metaphorical arm tied behind my equally cliched back?" There are those that like to visualize things