Re: SMP machine, run a program on a single CPU?

2011-07-09 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Maurice Janssen maur...@z74.net wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 07:52:58AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: On 07/09/11 03:57, Maurice Janssen wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow force a program to run on a single CPU in an SMP system? The reason I ask that on some

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

2011-05-31 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Francois Pussault fpussa...@contactoffice.fr wrote: Hi all, load is not realy a cpu usage %. In facts it is sum of many % (cpu real load, memory, buffers, etc...) No, it isn't. we should consider load as a host ressources %... No, we shouldn't. The load

Re: Bad frame pointer crash again

2011-05-24 Thread Artur Grabowski
There is no such thing as a bad frame pointer crash. That's a diagnostic message from ddb that it can't find anything further up the stack trace, which is correct, since the function sched_sync is on top of the stack. Now, what the kernel tells you is that your kernel didn't panic, so I'm not

Re: altq cripples other connections as well

2011-05-12 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Tom Murphy open...@pertho.net wrote: I had set up ALTQ on a 4.9 firewall box as a box in our network needed its sending throttled, but I noticed that while the firewall was throttling this machine in question, ALL connections going through the machine were

Re: Secret key in the packet filter.

2010-07-15 Thread Artur Grabowski
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Kenneth Gober kgo...@gmail.com wrote: I assume there's a language translation issue here. if there's a real non-idiotic question you're asking, we can't tell what it is due to

Re: Source Overview

2010-04-20 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: Looking at this and Peters message, I think there may be an answer much simpler than a TODO list, which I think will never work out. If developers wanted a TODO list, we would already have one. We do.

Re: Source Overview

2010-04-19 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: I also know he (as every developer) is busy with more important things, so publishing these small tasks would also give the developers more time to focus on the big/important issues. There are a bunch of

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-16 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the compliment, but I'm a *lot* older than nine. Yet you still believe that it's ok for guests to tell the hosts how to behave in their home. Amazing. What culture are you from? //art

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-15 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:39 PM, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO vt...@c3sl.ufpr.br wrote: Marco, instead of complaining about GNU, GPL, FSF, Linux, etc. Why don't you write some code instead? I know it's a strange concept. Hehehe. A funny hippie. //art

Re: crontab last day of the month

2010-04-08 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Alexander Hall ha...@openbsd.org wrote: frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:26:28AM +0200, Jan Stary said that On Apr 06 11:15:26, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, what happens if i specify a cronjob like this? 23 59 31 * *

Re: crontab last day of the month

2010-04-06 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: i am looking for an alternative @monthly, not 0 0 1 * * but the last minutes of the last day of the month. Why? because for me the month ends at 23:59:59 on the last day of month n, and not at 00:00:00 on the

Re: softdeps enabled = poor concurrent access?

2010-02-24 Thread Artur Grabowski
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Noah McNallie n...@n0ah.org wrote: Well, i've found on openbsd without sofdeps enabled it will do this just fine. But when enabling softdeps it will not. The 'uname' or 'ls' will take quite a while to complete. Simplified explaination. Without softdeps, your

Re: uvm_fault dump to DDB

2010-01-20 Thread Artur Grabowski
Brett Lymn bl...@baesystems.com.au writes: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:57:31PM +0100, Artur Grabowski wrote: Is this really the dmesg from the machine? Not manually copied or something? Because every strange error I see in it looks like one bit was flipped. E.g. com`at)bili4y: ` 0x60

Re: uvm_fault dump to DDB

2010-01-19 Thread Artur Grabowski
Is this really the dmesg from the machine? Not manually copied or something? Because every strange error I see in it looks like one bit was flipped. E.g. com`at)bili4y: ` 0x60, should be p 0x70 ) 0x29, should be i 0x69 4 0x34, should be t 0x74 Etc. Although. This is pre-reboot dmesg. I've

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread Artur Grabowski
Soner Tari so...@comixwall.org writes: Due to unexpected reaction from the leader of the OpenBSD project (please read below), I am terminating the ComixWall project. Do you cut yourself when somebody yells at you just to show them? I will feel stupid continuing with this project while I am

Re: help please, my real memory is disappearing

2009-11-17 Thread Artur Grabowski
MK pub...@kubikcz.net writes: 1. Is it normal that memory is not freed after I kill ftpd daemon? yes. because the ftp daemon didn't allocate it. 2. Is it normal ftpd can take about 800MB of real memory while serving GET requests? (only 1 client is able to consume that portion of memory) If

Re: help please, my real memory is disappearing

2009-11-17 Thread Artur Grabowski
. However significant performance hit on a busy ftp server. /Pete On 17. nov.. 2009, at 10.25, Artur Grabowski wrote: MK pub...@kubikcz.net writes: 1. Is it normal that memory is not freed after I kill ftpd daemon? yes. because the ftp daemon didn't allocate it. 2. Is it normal ftpd can

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

2009-11-04 Thread Artur Grabowski
Claire beuserie claire.beuse...@gmail.com writes: That came out a bit weird: are you saying you knew about the bug for 2 years but did not fix it? Yes. Because the solution sucks. And all others we tried were just not workable. Just like we knew that executable stacks can be used for exploits

Re: PF and Pool

2009-10-05 Thread Artur Grabowski
Insan Praja SW insan.pr...@gmail.com writes: These must be a problem right? I've tried replacing RAM since I think these are memory problem. But it keep coming. Then I updated to current, it's not going anywhere. I think somewhere in the h/w there's something really wrong. nothing is

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Artur Grabowski
- Tethys tet...@gmail.com writes: And that attitude is why OpenBSD will never be more than a hobby OS. Sigh. Yes? So? Not everyone has to have an ambition to take over the world. The developers do it as a hobby, for fun. Which ties into the OP. The answer to his question is why?. //art

Re: About the OpenBSD repository

2009-06-23 Thread Artur Grabowski
Mic J michael.cogn...@gmail.com writes: But to imply that CVS is better than (or equal to) Mercurial or Git is a bit ridiculous :) Mercurial and Git are crap. Because none of the above mentioned will allow for 70+ developers to update ~1.2GB/~140,000 files of source code, allow anonymous

Re: Is there a plan to make a OpenBSD compiler tool chain ?

2009-06-11 Thread Artur Grabowski
Shaowei Wang (wsw) wsw1w...@gmail.com writes: Is there any informations ? When someone wants to do it and does it, then it will be done. //art

Re: tmux vs wake

2009-06-05 Thread Artur Grabowski
Pawlowski Marcin Piotr pawlowski...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I'm a little bit curious about why there is place in bin for tmux(1) and there is no place for wake(8). In my opinion it's a little bit unfair. Could someone explain it? Sure, I'll try to explain. Ready? Brace yourself for the

Re: OpenBSD as a storage SAN

2009-06-03 Thread Artur Grabowski
Lars Nooden lars.cura...@gmail.com writes: OpenAFS is part of the base distro. Where? //art

Re: Bug in arch/i386/pci/pci_machdep.c

2009-05-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
Brock.Zheng goodme...@gmail.com writes: But I think the protection is not strong enough! You should disable IRQ totally! Interrupts are blocked. //art

Re: Even and Odd numbered OpenBSD versions

2009-05-19 Thread Artur Grabowski
Mark Romer romes...@gmail.com writes: Hello, just a simple question. We have here at work a old hand at openbsd and he says he only uses openbsd versions that are even numbered. (3.8, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4 etc...) I am not sure why, did not have a chance to ask him. I believe that you should

Re: [dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: Re: I would like to send this to misc@ and security-announce@, from me

2009-05-05 Thread Artur Grabowski
rembrandt rembra...@jpberlin.de writes: :words: Here's a nickel, kid. Buy yourself a better tinfoil hat. //art

Re: i386 snapshot kernel crash

2009-04-30 Thread Artur Grabowski
Michael bele...@bsdmail.de writes: my system crashes [...] kqemu: kqemu version 0x00010300 loaded, max locked mem=519228kB No shit? //art

Re: Programming Question: using kqueue() and kevent()

2009-04-20 Thread Artur Grabowski
Taylor Venable tay...@metasyntax.net writes: The plain-text version is here: http://real.metasyntax.net:2357/tmp/kevent.c changelist[i].ident = i; Pretty sure this line is your problem. //art

Re: European orders

2009-04-09 Thread Artur Grabowski
Lazarus Wasbeim lazarus.wasb...@googlemail.com writes: Surely I know something You perhaps don't. Says the guy whose only existence on the net is in this thread. Go away, astroturfer. It's very interesting when one side of the conflict is only supported by throwaway gmail accounts, don't you

Re: European orders

2009-04-08 Thread Artur Grabowski
Lazarus Wasbeim lazarus.wasb...@googlemail.com writes: L'haim. It's quite amazing how low these who calls themselves developers can go at pouring dirt all over somebody they were shaking hands with just moments ago. [...] ... and God bless my friends. Not everyone believes in turning the

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread Artur Grabowski
Where do they come from? Suddenly there's this astroturfing campaign about... what? forcing Theo to do business with someone he has no intention of doing business with anymore? If you're really so butthurt, sue for defamation. Those fanboy mails from total nobodies are just retarded. //art

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread Artur Grabowski
Daniel Seuffert d...@praxisvermittlung24.de writes: WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE Mr. Grabowski? Evidence of what? Of you being butthurt by some perceived injustice? It's right there in your mail. You can stop speculating who I am btw, I'm Daniel Seuffert. So, basically you're saying that you're a

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread Artur Grabowski
Daniel Seuffert d...@praxisvermittlung24.de writes: I am Daniel Seuffert asking two questions. And I am Dr. Mbeke Bulabula with a strictly confidential urgent none of your business proposal. //art

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread Artur Grabowski
Toni Mueller openbsd-m...@oeko.net writes: 1. Theo not wanting to do business with Wim anymore. It's his choice and none of your business. 2. The reasons(s) given why Theo does not want to do business with Wim anymore. It's his reasons and none of your business. 3. Theo's handling

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread Artur Grabowski
Daniel Seuffert d...@praxisvermittlung24.de writes: Because Mr. de Raadt accuses Mr. Vandeputte in public for having done some bad things without any evidence yet. No, he doesn't. Accusing him like that in public is something completely different. Where? I have asked two questions: 1.

Re: European orders

2009-03-31 Thread Artur Grabowski
Richard Ben Aleya richard.benal...@gmail.com writes: But this conflict does not give you the rights in any manner to insult the Europeans and their culture (you reference to the beer). We cannot accept a such behaviour. European people is offended when they read such things. Obvious troll.

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-31 Thread Artur Grabowski
Michael Grigoni michael.grig...@cybertheque.org writes: I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental question to pose however. It seems that opensource culture for large projects is driven by featurism and the need to make massive changes incorporated into frequent

Re: European orders

2009-03-30 Thread Artur Grabowski
Richard Ben Aleya richard.benal...@gmail.com writes: Theo, There in Europe, there are a lot of OpenBSD users who don't like the way you handle this conflict. We don't like how you can instantly punish Wim *a honest guy who made a lot of work, efforts and spent a lot of time for the OpenBSD

Re: persistent bios infection paper and openbsd

2009-03-27 Thread Artur Grabowski
Toni Mueller openbsd-m...@oeko.net writes: I messed up a bit, sorry. I did not want to say that this would help with the specific problem of someone attacking a flashable BIOS or by other machines that can't be readily observed by the user. But what I think such a program *will* help with, is

Re: might be slightly OT: `probability in PF'

2009-03-13 Thread Artur Grabowski
jmc j...@cosmicnetworks.net writes: block in log quick on $ext_if from openproxies to any probability 90% is because it seems a little bofh-ly to me. and i guess it borders on security-through obscurity, which of course it not really security at all. but it seems a bit more sinister than

Re: Where is Secure by default ?

2009-03-10 Thread Artur Grabowski
Han Boetes h...@mijncomputer.nl writes: Paul Irofti wrote: Hello Mr. Troll, thanks for flaming by. Have a good day! Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. That doesn't seem to be a good idea when you're working with security. Weren't we talking about

Re: environmental prerequisites for kernel development

2008-12-29 Thread Artur Grabowski
Lars Noodin larsnoo...@openoffice.org writes: What else is there on a wish-list for being able to do kernel-level work remotely? Serial console, a machine connected to the same net, remote power cycling, a slave willing to plug and unplug cables to see what happens. //art

Re: Capturing kernel debugger output without serial console

2008-12-17 Thread Artur Grabowski
Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org writes: On 2008-12-17, Lars Noodin larsnoo...@openoffice.org wrote: What is a reasonable way to capture kernel debugger (ddb) output without a serial console? I'm able to consistently get ifconfig to crash on the latest snapshots. -Lars Are your

Re: ahci questions

2008-12-08 Thread Artur Grabowski
frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my last question for people running ahci, is it better than ide in any perceivable way? The code is so much cleaner than the pciide mess. That's enough to make it better. I also believe it's faster, but I don't have any concrete numbers for it. Also,

Re: bash for root?

2008-12-03 Thread Artur Grabowski
Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: more than 13 years [...] If you write shell scripts that depend on being run by a specific shell, you are supposed to use the #! thing. Yes, you are great. You've never made any mistake in more than 13 years. Us mere mortals prefer to avoid the risk of making

Re: Missing security announcements

2008-11-14 Thread Artur Grabowski
Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do not let serious problems sit unsolved. It's not a serious problem for us. //art

Re: NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver ready to merge on cvs obsd ?

2008-10-29 Thread Artur Grabowski
Heimdall Imbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hahaha, I wanted to say the same thing but figured that this wouldn't be an appropriate venue for a discussion of this nature. But since someone else brought it up, I figure I might as well add my two cents. I currently run Debian and Windows XP on

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread Artur Grabowski
new_guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I thought to myself, I bet I could run

Re: NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver ready to merge on cvs obsd ?

2008-10-28 Thread Artur Grabowski
Neko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: its shows that some poor trolls here dont own ultraportables with no external drives, and use more than one os alternative. When your machine is a tool, not a toy, you run one operating system, whichever that might be. //art

Re: uvm_mapent_alloc

2008-10-13 Thread Artur Grabowski
http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/110397.jpg //art Vladimir Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 14:44 Fri 10 Oct, Beavis wrote: thanks for the reply vladimir. is it needed to upgrade my 4.3 stable to -current? isn't there a patch available for this? The 4.3 uvm_map.c is 5

Re: uvm_mapent_alloc

2008-10-13 Thread Artur Grabowski
Wow. I'm impressed. So if I mailed you a random diff that you don't understand you'd happily apply it without having a single clue about what the diff does and who sent it? Cool. Can I have your money and business without going through that hassle? Can't be bothered to make a malicious diff right

Re: dmesg IBM x3650 OpenBSD 4.3

2008-10-13 Thread Artur Grabowski
gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/10/10 Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow. Good luck. Can't you see we've been down that road before with those bastards? But really. Good luck. You really are too optimistic, but sure, learn the reality for yourself. I'm sure calling vendors

Re: uvm_mapent_alloc

2008-10-13 Thread Artur Grabowski
there are since there were lots of things since 4.3 that lowered the pressure on static map entries. //art Artur Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow. I'm impressed. So if I mailed you a random diff that you don't understand you'd happily apply it without having a single clue about what the diff

Re: kernel debugging broken in 4.4-CURRENT?

2008-10-08 Thread Artur Grabowski
Peter Kay - Syllopsium [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given that I'm in a minority of kgdb users, what's everyone else using in cases like this? I use printfs, pstat -d and ddb. Never use breakpoints since I don't trust them, they mess up timing too much. //art

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-17 Thread Artur Grabowski
Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, when he tries to say that the OpenBSD crowd has a different attitude, I don't know who he's referring to, but certainly not me. That's the funniest part about this. If the attitude we have about the issue in that disucssion makes us a bunch of wanking

Re: subr_pool: question

2008-07-16 Thread Artur Grabowski
It happens when some memory was freed to the pool and then modified after it was freed. //art banana split [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, I've a question (maybe a stupid one). I have a problem with a box so I'm start searching the reason of this problem. By reading the code I'm wondering

Re: rtorrent problems - solved?

2008-07-13 Thread Artur Grabowski
viq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the carpet bombing, I grabbed the list of people who I saw report problems with rtorrent. I'm writing to ask those who had problems with rtorrent try it again with newest snapshots, I was not able to reproduce the problem on a box that used to freeze.

Re: Can't get KERN_NCHSTATS: Cannot allocate memory

2008-07-07 Thread Artur Grabowski
Your userland is out of sync with the kernel. That's bad, mmkay? //art Insan Praja SW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Misc@, on latest OpenBSD 4.4-beta (GENERIC.MP) #18: Mon Jul 7 08:40:47 WIT 2008 AMD64 machine, while lookin' to my new favorite tool systat, on the first page, I got the

Re: developer laptop choices

2008-06-16 Thread Artur Grabowski
Jose Quinteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Super quick and dirty check, and I'd have to get it with Windows Vista Ultimate. Ultimate what? is the question that comes immediately to mind. No thanks. Personally, I'd buy a Dell Insipidron N-series, purely for political reasons. I sometimes hit

Re: Kernel developers guide/tutorial

2008-06-12 Thread Artur Grabowski
Don Hiatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Pardon if this email was repeated. Sadly, I'm using Outlook and you know the rest :-) ] Can anyone point me to a kernel developers guide or tutorial? Something that explains how to write a hello world type device driver and such. Anything to bootstrap

Re: Doubt about license

2008-05-05 Thread Artur Grabowski
Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pulic domain also says do with it whatever you like. I really don't know about the importance of the disclaimer. Maybe it depends on the country you live in. public domain is a meaningless term in many countries (it doesn't have any meaning in courts,

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread Artur Grabowski
Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He is eluding to things like smart tabs and auto indent. Those are disabled by default on vim and when programming they are both a curse and a gift from the gods. I'll admit to having spend more than a few minutes fine tuning that. I am an old vi

Re: Chatting with developers? Is it soo 1996?

2008-04-16 Thread Artur Grabowski
Andris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an old email on the mailing lists, dating back to 1996, when Theo announced users could connect and chat with the developers on their ICB server. Many developers did not

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Artur Grabowski
Jernej Makovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reading the archive it seems to me that el8 was taken as a joke: Yes, some random person, on a publicly available list where anyone can post, said he thought it was a joke. Your point is? Go away, little troll. //art

Re: configuring the GENERIC kernel (was Re: Issue compiling a program on OpenBSD)

2008-03-31 Thread Artur Grabowski
Ross Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you say, config makes me boot faster. so then people go and config their kernel, and then we get problem reports about broken kernels. that's fine if you want to go break

Re: gettimeofday() dramatical slowdown from 4.1-4.2

2008-03-17 Thread Artur Grabowski
Most likely (although you haven't provided any information, so we can't be sure), your machine is using the 8254 time counter. Earlier it would have been using TSC for timekeeping, but TSC is so unreliable on so many machines and it's more or less impossible to know when it can be trusted, so TSC

Re: kernel_map out of virtual space panic on different hardware within hours of difference

2008-01-11 Thread Artur Grabowski
Martmn Coco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pfstatekeypl 108 108435160 5769657 138375 1243 137132 137132 0 80 [...] In use 540926K, total allocated 559516K; utilization 96.7% This is a bit extreme. Either you have some insane amount of states in your pf or something is leaking

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-14 Thread Artur Grabowski
Mathieu Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree. A complex interface implies a lot of code. a lot of code leads to unreliablity, either through bugs or detracting valuable developer time from more important things A simple interface (well designed) imples less

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-12 Thread Artur Grabowski
Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why does that majority not provide the skills or the money to support that facility? Maybe you should use something else that panders to your appetite. Completely unable to resist a great setup presented above, is the software really free then? free

Re: howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-27 Thread Artur Grabowski
Insan Praja SW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Misc, I got an important directory in my 4.1 bsd and it's deleted using rm -rf :(. Anyone had experience restoring them? I really.. (I mean Really) need help on this one.. Forget it. We zero block before they are marked as free in the filesystem,

Re: howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-27 Thread Artur Grabowski
Artur Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Insan Praja SW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Misc, I got an important directory in my 4.1 bsd and it's deleted using rm -rf :(. Anyone had experience restoring them? I really.. (I mean Really) need help on this one.. Forget it. We zero

Re: Paper about memory speed with multi-core CPUs

2007-11-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
Alexey Suslikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Johan Mson Lindman wrote: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf - Alexey. Is this paper from the same Drepper as is posting in the URL below? http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053.html Yes. But it's up to

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but can't call yerself a unix guru if havent fu*ed up dual boot at least once :] never fucked up a dual boot. Only tried it two times and both times it worked. Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a second machine. //art

Re: src tree broken or cvs repo out of sync?

2007-11-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I updated my src tree (current sources) this morning and updated it a few times this afternoon but I'm not able to build the kernel anymore, is anyone else experiencing this issue? I'm able to reproduce this on another PC where I updated the

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
V. Karthik Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Artur Grabowski wrote: frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but can't call yerself a unix guru if havent fu*ed up dual boot at least once :] never fucked up a dual boot. Only tried it two times and both times it worked. Dual boot

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
Johan Mson Lindman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 26 November 2007 18:37:05 you wrote: V. Karthik Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Artur Grabowski wrote: frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but can't call yerself a unix guru if havent fu*ed up dual boot at least once

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
kernels. bsd and bsd.working. On 27/11/2007, at 2:14 AM, Artur Grabowski wrote: frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but can't call yerself a unix guru if havent fu*ed up dual boot at least once :] never fucked up a dual boot. Only tried it two times and both times it worked. Dual

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Artur Grabowski
frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hmm, on Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:14:50PM +0100, Artur Grabowski said that worked. Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a second machine. single boot is for sissies who drag around 3 notebooks with themselves :p I guess you've never hacked

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-11-01 Thread Artur Grabowski
n0g0013 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Development is not the same process as writing a whiny mail. that is a shame. i can probably better understand the relectance to re-visit this if it has failed before. perhaps, others are right, perhaps linux can tolerate it because it's not as good as

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Artur Grabowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: surely there must be _some_ merit to creating a list of lower level development tasks (as dictated by those with experience to judge) to encourage people to enter the development cycle. The most amusing thing about this thread is that such a list has been published

Re: cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-21 Thread Artur Grabowski
Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on unix everything is a file? no, it's not. It's the dumbed down truth so that you can explain to random people what the hell Unix is, or rather to make them have a dumb look on their face and nod. A process is not a file, a memory region is not a file,

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-03 Thread Artur Grabowski
Brian Candler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't be misguided by what has been said here. OpenBSD is genuinely *free*. That means you can use it for whatever you like. There's nothing in any way immoral from selling it, whether or not you make a profit. There's a difference between immoral and

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-03 Thread Artur Grabowski
Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess he means writing own additions/modifications (thus creating a combined or derivative work), and releasing those *own* additions/modifications under the GPL. In the end, you can use the combined/derivative work only to the extent that's

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-27 Thread Artur Grabowski
Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone had any doubt that our insistance on freedom was important, just read this. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2007/08/24/0027.html What is even more astounding is the incestious love-in these other groups have, with their

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-27 Thread Artur Grabowski
Kevin Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Darrin, Thanks for reply. The reason is that we have bunch of files integrated with 4.0 and it would take us months to upgrade to 4.2 again. we just finished from 3.3 to 4.0 of upgrade few months ago, plus months of test to stabilize our 4.0 based

Re: systrace/sysjail wrappers security

2007-08-12 Thread Artur Grabowski
Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my opinion there are just too many potential problems with syscall wrappers that I fully agree with Robert - they should not be used. I must fully agree here. I never liked systrace and bashed sysjail really hard because the solution is at the

Re: Kuro5hin: OpenBSD Founder Theo deRaadt Has Conflict of Interest With AMD

2007-08-06 Thread Artur Grabowski
chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OpenBSD Founder Theo deRaadt Has Conflict of Interest With AMD By David Marcus, 2007-08-05 03:41:29 Section: Technology, Topic: I formerly had a great deal of respect, bordering on admiration, for Theo deRaadt's refusals to compromise his open

Re: Intel Core 2 - round #2

2007-07-12 Thread Artur Grabowski
bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, everyone picks up on the one thing that Linus fixed a while back, the TLB stuff. What about the rest of the bugs? The non-TLB crap? How is Art ignoring the relevance of the rest of the message? He just said, the TLB is just a minor issue, that the *OTHER*

Re: Intel Core 2 - round #2

2007-07-11 Thread Artur Grabowski
Christoph Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linus contradicts Theo on Intel TLB issue: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=559 No he doesn't. The article is confused and missed the whole point. The TLB issues are just one small part of what Theo was talking about, not even the most important one.

Re: VA space question

2007-07-11 Thread Artur Grabowski
Constantine Kousoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you art. You have been crystal clear. Constantine No, thank You for making me look in this direction and finding a way to speed up the pmap by another 10% (hacked up a diff tonight). //art

Re: ADVERT: C12G

2007-07-11 Thread Artur Grabowski
Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/11/07, Marcus Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: ADVERT: C12G ... That, and Schneier's 'snake oil' may well apply. ... Almost certainly applies. See

Re: VA space question

2007-07-10 Thread Artur Grabowski
Constantine Kousoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which one level 1 ptp do we keep at the recursive area? Does OpenBSD keep the last used level 1 ptp cached at that area? Please clarify. Huh? That question, no parse. The recursive map is simply the top level page table that we enter into itself

Re: VA space question

2007-07-10 Thread Artur Grabowski
Constantine Kousoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A second thing is that recursive mapping works well when we have 2-level page tables (as in the i386 architecture). Try a few more levels of recursion. It works fine. When we have 3 or more page tables, the recursive mapping just points to

Re: Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-09 Thread Artur Grabowski
Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, Running OpenBSD 4.0 stable, 32MB RAM, 3 identical nics. One symptom of running out of RAM is getting a panic on boot. The system boots fine with bsd.rd, but try to boot with the bsd image and you get (from handwritten notes): bmtphy1 at

Re: acpi suspend?

2007-07-02 Thread Artur Grabowski
Vim Visual [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How are the chances that suspend is implemented in ACPI for 4.2?? 1% I had a prototype almost working at one point, messed it up without saving the working version, then never had time or energy to go back to it and noone else has picked it up.

Re: problems with kthread

2007-06-25 Thread Artur Grabowski
syl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, I'm not sure if I'm at the right place to ask this question, but I might aswell try; I'm writing you this mail because there is one thing I can't understand in the openbsd kthread. Actually, it is those two functions from the kthread's man :

Re: Security of the keyboard

2007-06-21 Thread Artur Grabowski
Why not write the keyboard driver the same way how the friend did it in his OS - using bitmasking and avoiding conditional jumps and lookup tables? Then the security would be guaranteed and not just hoped for. Why not write the driver yourself? I don't see the reason to jump and reinvent

Re: Random crash

2007-06-20 Thread Artur Grabowski
Luca Losio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm having a lot of crashes with my 4.1 since I updated from 4.0 ...the console output is: page fault trap code=0 stopped at enqueue_randomness+0xc5addb%al,0(%eax) ddb RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING

Re: linker scripts

2007-06-20 Thread Artur Grabowski
Constantine Kousoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a linux background (and a limited NetBSD experience), i expected to find linker scripts in the kernel source code. However, this is simply not true for most architectures. What is the logic behind the lack of linker scripts? The same

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