Hi Android
IPC is my last resort. The reason is that, my present
project is to convert a present software to run in beowlf. I am using Mosix
which enables me to parralize the software through forking. The present
software is highly data oriented and highly complicated. If
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 26.06.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
Normal users can use an environment provided for them.
While trying to figure out why the heyu program would not
work on a Red Hat box, I did just this. As root I set up all
the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jorgen Cederlof) wrote on 27.06.01 in
20010627014534.B2654@ondska:
If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been
chrooted before, and if the suid/sgid bits won't have any effect under
the new root, it should be perfectly safe to allow any user to
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:40:36PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
You need /dev/zero to get anywhere near the normal behaviour of the
system.
Not commenting on the original patch, I think requiring /dev/zero for
a 'usable' system should be considered a [g]libc bug. /dev/zero should
be present,
I can not help if you have a device that not compliant to the rules.
ATA-2 is OBSOLETED thus we forced (the NCITS Standards Body) the CFA
people to move to ATA-4 or ATA-5.
That device is enabling with its ablity to assert its device-host
interrupt regardless of the HOST...that is a bad device.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:40:36PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
You need /dev/zero to get anywhere near the normal behaviour of the
system.
Not commenting on the original patch, I think requiring /dev/zero for
a 'usable' system should be
I have a server that had a Realtek 8139 card that worked nicely under
normal circumstances.
But I made a mistake in a crontab and I had 60 instances of a backup
script starting one per minute, all of them wishing to create the same
.tar.gz into a samba mounted share.
This crazy situation had
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
I use the hack myself, to implement a record-oriented file where the
file position is a record number. I could probably live with
PAGE_SIZE, but the current hack works fine with start bigger than
that, and it's possible that someone counts on it.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
No matter what stupid things I do on it, I shouldn't be able to take the
kernel down, right?
After I replaced the Realtek with a 3com, I could see all of the 60
instances fighting like worms in shit, but the server survived.
Did the card share
I was thinking of doing a chrooted login for some ssh accounts.
The plan is this:
put stuff in
/home/u_dev
/home/u_etc
/home/u_bin
Then at login time mount them to
/home/user/dev
/home/user/etc
/home/user/bin
as readonly
chroot to /home/user
...
And then unmount them at logout time.
Does
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around
here...
Ummm, the AS/400 was based out of Rochester, Minnesota at least initially. It
was the follow to
Andries writes:
After sending util-linux out, I booted a kernel that had kdev_t
a pointer type, to see whether that still works.
And all (minus md/lvm/nfs that didnt compile)...
Yes, LVM totally abuses kdev_t (assumes = dev_t in user space).
Changing kdev_t should force this to be cleaned up.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
I was thinking of doing a chrooted login for some ssh accounts.
The plan is this:
[snip CLONE_NAMESPACE-by-hands]
Does this seem like a bad idea?
(then please tell me why :))
Mostly because there's a better way to do that. Yes, such scheme
* If we're getting low cache hit rates, don't flush
processes to swap.
* If we're getting good cache hit rates, flush old, idle
processes to swap.
Rik ... but I fail to see this one. If we get a low cache hit rate,
Rik couldn't that just mean we allocated too little memory for the
Rik
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:05:20 +0200
Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
No matter what stupid things I do on it, I shouldn't be able to take
the
kernel down, right?
After I replaced the Realtek with a 3com, I could see all of the 60
John Nilsson wrote:
Well I thought that it was time for me to give some feedback to the linux
community. So I will tell you guys a little of my experience with linux so
far.
I have a Toshiba Portégé 3010CT laptop. That is:
266MHz Pentium-MMX
4GB HD with 512kb cache (which linux reduces
Dan Kegel wrote:
That signal is no longer delivered normally or available for
pickup with sigwait() et al. Instead, it must be picked up by
calling read() on the file descriptor returned by sigwait();
the buffer passed to read() must have a size which is a
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
Interesting but I wonder how much this helps someone that not already know what it
is. Should not the ls manual also contain something that explains the meaning instead
of just the mapping from bits to symbol.
Do linux even support the sticky
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
Hi,
I updated the patches to 2.4.6-pre5, and removed the zone-dma32
addition. This means that machines with 4GB of RAM will need to go all
good, we can relax the ZONE_NORMAL later, that's a separate problem with
skipping the
hi:
I use a PIII machine as the server and cyrixIII machine as the client.The
kernel is 2.4.5.The distribute is red hat 7.1
when i mount the nfs file system at the client it failed.The core file is
created.using the gdb it report :
Program terminated with signal 4(SIGILL),Illegal instruction
#0
Interesting. . .
What country is that? What is it about the computer that won't allow it to
run things other than Windows - or is the TV just mistaken (I suspect so)?
You don't want to know the country. Yeap, you're right. They are all just
a bunch of morons.
Richard Schilling
On 26 Jun 2001 20:43:33 -0400, Dan Maas wrote:
Windows NT/2000 has flags that can be for each CreateFile operation
(open in Unix terms), for instance
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY
FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH
FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING
FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS
FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
I have a server that had a Realtek 8139 card that worked nicely under
normal circumstances.
[...]
This crazy situation had the server freeze solid, with only cold boot as
remedy.
Driver. Crash fix is in 2.4.6-pre5, and a more complete fix should be
out in the next
On 26 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote:
Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Event Time PID Length Description
Hi,
I think Stephen C. Tweedie has some considerations about the cache
flushing calls on do_swap_page().
Stephen?
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
Hello Marcelo,
This is follow-up to the mail in February. You may perhaps forget the
context, it's the bug of MM about cache
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:34:27 -0400
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
I have a server that had a Realtek 8139 card that worked nicely
under
normal circumstances.
[...]
This crazy situation had the server freeze solid, with only cold
boot as
remedy.
Driver.
From: Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
I didn't go for proper solution in 2.4.0-test*). However, instead of
crufting up kinda-sorta namespaces one could use the real thing. Relevant
cleanups of superblock handling will go in in 2.5.very_early and the
rest of patch (namespace proper)
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
At 18:59 26/06/2001, Jari Ruusu wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 26 10:20:51 2001
This patch fixes the problem. Please consider applying.
--- linux-2.4.6-pre5/drivers/block/loop.cSat Jun 23 07:52:39 2001
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:30:41AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
- change parport_pc so that it doesn't request parport_serial at
init. In this case, how will parport_serial get loaded at all?
Perhaps with some recommended
! This problem occurs, nomatter wether ECN is enabled or disabled !:
Since upgrading to Linux 2.4.5 (ECN disabled!) I'm unable to connect to any
hosts which are located behind a Bintec Brick router (the brick performs
port forwarding).
When I'm trying to connect from a Linux 2.2 machine, I have
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:36:30AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
I think you misunderstood the point. Microsoft is providing this WSD
DLL as a standard part of W2K now. This means that hardware vendors
just have to write a SAN service provider, and all Winsock-using
applications benefit
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
I suppose they received some pression from M$, but if people read of a FUD
from a M$ employed, then they can guess what is going on, if it is a
newspaper usually telling facts in a correct way...
It is common for newspaper staff to be corrupt, same
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:20:16AM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
Feature. It actually makes it quite nice when you want to allow
chrooted user(s) access to a common directory, you just mount a
partition in all the users home dirs.
For security, this can be a bad idea.
Potentially, chrooted user
Hi Maciej Zenczykowski,
This is happening on a freshly installed RH7.1 notebook.
Celeron 400 + 64 mb ram, kernel as shipped (2.4.2-2, have not even
recompiled it yet). I have a 140 mb swap partition set up but at the time
this happened it was OFF. I was (still am) running X + twm + two
On 27 Jun 2001, David Wagner wrote:
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
By author:Jorgen Cederlof [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been
chrooted before, and if the suid/sgid bits won't have any effect under
the new root, it should be perfectly safe to
FYI, patching megaraid.c to disable 64-bit mode avoids the problem.
Apparently, the firmware provided by HP for this card is buggy in 64 bit
mode. System has run stably for two weeks after applying the patch.
Contact me if you want the patch. Thanks to Martti Hyppänen for the patch.
(Posted
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Monday 25 June 2001 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I learnt my computing on a PDP8/E with papertape punch/reader, RALF,
Fortran II, then later 2.4Mb removable cartridges (RK05 I think). toggling
in the bootstrap improved your concentration. Much
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
2.4.5-ac19
o Update Gareth Hughes contact info (Gareth Hughes)
o Make sure NFS atime is handled by
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, John Stoffel wrote:
* If we're getting low cache hit rates, don't flush
processes to swap.
* If we're getting good cache hit rates, flush old, idle
processes to swap.
Rik ... but I fail to see this one. If we get a
On 27 Jun 2001, David Wagner wrote:
Why is it useless? It sounds useful to me, on first glance. If I want
to run a user-level network daemon I don't trust (for instance, fingerd),
isolating it in a chroot area sounds pretty nice: If there is a buffer
overrun in the daemon, you can get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wagner):
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
By author:Jorgen Cederlof [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been
chrooted before, and if the suid/sgid bits won't have any effect under
the new root, it should be perfectly safe to
Hi,
I do not fully unterstandt the printk code, so perhaps somebody can answer
me this (probably stupid ;) ) question:
If I do a printk, is there a packet (aka a sk_buff) created? If I turn on
debugging in my code, I see a huge pile of sk_buffs which are allocated but
which do not get in touch
hi all
Presnently I am using 2.2.16. Now I downloaded the 2.4.5
kernel source code. Now I compiled it. I didn't changed anything in the
menuconfig. Still it not working. Why it it so
by
Blesson
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To unsubscribe from this list: send the line
Rik ... but I fail to see this one. If we get a low cache hit rate,
Rik couldn't that just mean we allocated too little memory for the
Rik cache ?
Or that we're doing big sequential reads of file(s) which are larger
than memory, in which case expanding the cache size buys us nothing,
and
not working?
can You post there exactly crash info?
Best regards,
Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Let's start the war, said Meggy
Hi all,
I think find a ramdisk bug of 2.4.4 kernel -- ramdisk
use both buffers and cached mem of the same size, thus
double the mem use.
mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram1
mount /dev/ram1 /mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/data bs=1k count=11
cat /proc/meminfo will see that both buffers and
cached mem increase
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
I'll wait for 2.5 then...
Where's that namespace patch located?
The last one I've put on anonftp was against 2.4.6-pre2 (namespaces-a-S6-pre2,
on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro). It still includes tons of fs/super.c cleanups
and fixes - they still
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:18:26PM +0800, Zeng Yu wrote:
Hi all,
I think find a ramdisk bug of 2.4.4 kernel -- ramdisk
use both buffers and cached mem of the same size, thus
double the mem use.
mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram1
mount /dev/ram1 /mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/data bs=1k count=11
This issue has been acknowledged on 1M/2M controllers with firmware H.01.07
and H.01.08.
Atul Mukker
Supervising Software Engineer
RAID RD
American Megatrends Inc.
6145-F Northbelt Parkway Norcross GA-30071
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP: www.ami.com
-Original Message-
From: Kelly
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:08:15AM -0500, Adam wrote:
hello,
I have question. I have box with kernel 2.2.17pre15
upgrade to 2.2.19 or 2.2.20pre
Andrea
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Jens Hoffrichter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I do not fully unterstandt the printk code, so perhaps somebody can answer
me this (probably stupid ;) ) question:
If I do a printk, is there a packet (aka a sk_buff) created? If I turn on
debugging in my code, I see a huge pile of sk_buffs which
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
Followup to: 20010627014534.B2654@ondska
By author:Jorgen Cederlof [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been
chrooted before, and if the suid/sgid bits won't have any
Hi Andrew,
But why does it work with 2.2.19??
Kees
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
Tim Timmerman wrote:
kees == kees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kees Hi,
kees I tried 2.4.5 but after a couple of hours I lost all network
kees connectivety. The log shows:
snip
At 10:07 AM +0200 2001-06-27, Martin Wilck wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
I use the hack myself, to implement a record-oriented file where the
file position is a record number. I could probably live with
PAGE_SIZE, but the current hack works fine with start bigger than
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:29:47AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
I can not help if you have a device that not compliant to the rules.
ATA-2 is OBSOLETED thus we forced (the NCITS Standards Body) the CFA
people to move to ATA-4 or ATA-5.
That device is enabling with its ablity to assert its
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
Hello,
I'm not sure wether this is a reiserfs bug or a kernel bug,
so I'm posting to both lists...
My linux box suddenly was not availbale using ssh|telnet,
but it responded to pings. On console login, I could type
Hi,
what is the current relation between the reiserfs patches at
namesys.com and the 2.4.5-ac series kernel?
Namesys seems to have a small one for the umount problem and two
bigger ones (knfsd and knfsd+quota+mount). All apply cleanly to vanilla
2.4.5, but the bigger ones fails against ac18
Andre Hedrick wrote:
I can not help if you have a device that not compliant to the rules.
ATA-2 is OBSOLETED thus we forced (the NCITS Standards Body) the CFA
people to move to ATA-4 or ATA-5.
See Alan's point about existing hardware.
That device is enabling (with its ablity to assert)
Patrick Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm interested in multi-path IO in the linux scsi mid-layer.
Are there developers working on changes to the scsi layers/interfaces?
I've seen references about such work, but no details.
[snip snip]
But, a decent multi-path IO implementation
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
PROBLEM: various oops's in 2.2.19 SMP kernel.
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
The machine runs along fine for a couple of weeks, and will eventually hang
with an oops. I have had this happen approximately 5 times to date with
different
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:22:15PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
Hi,
I updated the patches to 2.4.6-pre5, and removed the zone-dma32
addition. This means that machines with 4GB of RAM will need to go all
good, we can relax the ZONE_NORMAL
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
I can see one mm corruption race condition in the patch, you missed
nested irq in the for kmap_irq_bh (PIO). You must _always_
__cli/__save_flags before accessing the KMAP_IRQ_BH slot, in case the
remapping is required (so _only_ when the page is in
It should be all devices that do not claim ATA-4/5 support.
I have to go back and look to see what the cut-off was that CFA agreed to
move forward off the dead docs.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
ASL Kernel Development
Linux ATA Development
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:49:08PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
I can see one mm corruption race condition in the patch, you missed
nested irq in the for kmap_irq_bh (PIO). You must _always_
__cli/__save_flags before accessing the KMAP_IRQ_BH slot, in
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:49:08PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
I can see one mm corruption race condition in the patch, you missed
nested irq in the for kmap_irq_bh (PIO). You must _always_
I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is
an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to
spin at 1X when I watch movies. Currently, it spins at its highest speed,
which is very loud and a large power load.
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
2.4.5-ac series (i'm not sure exactly when it started) shows unresolved
symbols for the appletalk module:
($:~)- modprobe appletalk
/lib/modules/2.4.5-ac19/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_snap_client_R9abefc50
I posted this sometime back but I guess probably it got lost.
Is there a way for a driver to ask kernel to
give DMA'able memory within 4GB ? I read about
pci_alloc_consistent(). But I could not find out
whether that guarantees the DMA'able memory to be
within 4GB or not. Is there any other
PAGE_OFFSET definitely works for me, but a quick scan of the headers
suggests that non-sun3 m68k builds define PAGE_OFFSET as 0, as does
s390.
Hum - is there no simple way to determine whether a pointer is
a valid pointer to something returned by __get_free_pages ()? You are
right, S390 in
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is
an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to
spin at 1X when I watch movies. Currently, it spins at
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:20:16AM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
Feature. It actually makes it quite nice when you want to allow
chrooted user(s) access to a common directory, you just mount a
partition in all the users home dirs.
For security, this can be a bad idea.
'tis
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around
here...
Ummm, the AS/400 was based
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is
an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to
spin at 1X when I watch movies. Currently, it
--On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:51:36 +0530 Balbir Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't there be a sigclose() and other operations to make the API
Wouldn't the existing close() be good enough for that?
orthogonal. sigopen() should be selective about the signals it allows
as argument.
Followup to: 83fdx$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
By author:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jorgen Cederlof) wrote on 27.06.01 in
20010627014534.B2654@ondska:
If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been
chrooted before,
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
I do not care much whether the cache is using 99% of the systems memory
or 50%. As long as there is free memory, using it for cache is great. I
care a lot if the cache takes down interactivity, because it pushes out
processes that it thinks idle,
--On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:18:28 +0200 Jamie Lokier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Btw, this functionality is already available using sigaction(). Just
search for a signal whose handler is SIG_DFL. If you then block that
signal before changing, checking the result, and unblocking the
What is the Right Way[tm] as of 2.4.6 to allocate 16Mb as 4K pages and
get the pci bus address for each page? Bonus points is they're
virtually contiguous, but that's not necessary. IIRC, the old
vmalloc-then-walk-the-pagetables trick is considered out-of-bounds
nowadays.
OG.
-
To
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
David T Eger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and
happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions
when I read documentation (Documentation/pci.txt) which mentions that
remove()
Linus Torvalds wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
David T Eger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and
happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions
when I read documentation (Documentation/pci.txt)
What is the Right Way[tm] as of 2.4.6 to allocate 16Mb as 4K pages and
get the pci bus address for each page? Bonus points is they're
virtually contiguous, but that's not necessary. IIRC, the old
vmalloc-then-walk-the-pagetables trick is considered out-of-bounds
nowadays.
If you want it
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
Oops killing soft interrupt in networking subsystem on plain 2.4.5 kernel.
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
I recently updated the system on my router (486 100Mhz, 12MB RAM) to kernel
2.4.5. The router has one ethernet interface and an ISDN
Hi,
this includes the last fix + now it is willing to share PCI irqs.
Of course you still need CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ set.
Now CF is working very fine, hdparm-4.1 shows 1.27 MB/sec.
(Only after treaking the source for small (i.e. 64MB) devices).
Regards, Gunther
---
I think pgp-signing just barfed my last email (typical) so I'm retyping /
resending this:
Hi,
this patch adds Solaris 7/8 like /dev/poll support to the kernel.
I can claim no real credit for this as basically this is a fixed version of
a patch available from
Not my day it seems ! Hopefully I remembered to attach the file this time :)
--
Hi,
this patch adds Solaris 7/8 like /dev/poll support to the kernel.
I can claim no real credit for this as basically this is a fixed version of
a patch available from
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is
an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to
spin at 1X when I watch movies. Currently,
On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:
Excellent. I'd say use the same ioctl if you can, but default to using
SET_STREAMING for DVD drives.
As long as it still works for the combo drives - CD/CD-RW/DVD
Sony VIAO high end laptops, Toshiba has one, maybe others by now.
As long as it has
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:42:01 +0800, Frank Zhu wrote:
I use a PIII machine as the server and cyrixIII machine as the client.The
kernel is 2.4.5.The distribute is red hat 7.1
when i mount the nfs file system at the client it failed.The core file is
created.using the gdb it report :
Program
I'm having trouble understanding the difference between these.
Synchronous apparently causes try_to_wake_up() to NOT call
reschedule_idle() but I'm uncertain what reschedule_idle() is doing. I
assume it just looks for an idle CPU and makes that CPU reschedule.
What is the purpose of
Andre Hedrick wrote:
PARANIOA.
This is not a valid reason.
This clearly fixes a bug in linux. Note: the irq disable
is local to ide-cs. Are you paranoid enough to believe
enabling the irq by writing globally to the control register that
existed since ATA will have ill effects?
You claim
H. Peter Anvin writes:
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
Normal users can use an environment provided for them.
While trying to figure out why the heyu program would not
work on a Red Hat box, I did just this. As root I set up all
the device files needed, along Debian libraries and the heyu
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:23:27PM -0700, Prasad Koya wrote:
How does socket(), bind() and other BSD socket API
calls in user applications are handled by system
socketcall(). Does the compiler (say gcc) substitute
socket() in user app with socketcall(SYS_SOCKET,..)?
You are using libc
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
BTW, it is way wrong that /dev/zero should be needed at all.
Such use is undocumented (man zero, man mmap) anyway, and
AFAIK one should use mmap() with MAP_ANON instead. Not that
the documentation on MAP_ANON is any good either, but at least
the mere existence of
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:33:03 +0200
Alessandro Suardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have trouble in finding words to describe such blatant ignorance.
A Troll ?
oh.. geez, this was not something on the internet...
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H. Peter Anvin writes:
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
BTW, it is way wrong that /dev/zero should be needed at all.
Such use is undocumented (man zero, man mmap) anyway, and
AFAIK one should use mmap() with MAP_ANON instead. Not that
the documentation on MAP_ANON is any good either, but at least
I'm having trouble understanding the difference between these.
Synchronous apparently causes try_to_wake_up() to NOT call
reschedule_idle() but I'm uncertain what reschedule_idle() is doing. I
assume it just looks for an idle CPU and makes that CPU reschedule.
What is the purpose of
Hello, there is a little problem with some headers and
new glibs and compilers. Kernel fails to compile and worst
is the extern declaration in sched.h
Don't if this is a gcc or glib problem (surely gcc) but doesn't
works...
The patch is only redeclaring xtime in extern:
Hi,
Martin Wilck wrote:
Hum - is there no simple way to determine whether a pointer is
a valid pointer to something returned by __get_free_pages ()? You are
right, S390 in particular seems to allow arbitrary addresses starting from
0.
M68k does so too, although the first page is never used
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:22:19PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
Why would you want to prevent
reschedule_idle()?
If one process runs, wakes up another process and _knows_ that it's
going to sleep immediately after the wake_up it doesn't need the
reschedule_idle: the current cpu will be
Is there a standard way to make multiple copies of a network device?
For things like the bonding/ipip/ip_gre and others they seem to expect
insmod -o copy1 module.o
insmod -o copy2 module.o
It seems to me that this will waste space creating copies of all the
static data.
Then there are things
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