Re: Security and PAX

2015-06-16 Thread Justin Cormack
On Jun 16, 2015 7:42 PM, Christos Zoulas chris...@zoulas.com wrote: On Jun 16, 7:54pm, rhin...@epost.ch (rhin...@epost.ch) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Security and PAX | On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:59:34AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: | On Jun 15, 9:15am, rhin...@epost.ch (rhin...@epost.ch)

Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required

2014-12-28 Thread Justin Cormack
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: John Nemeth jnem...@cue.bc.ca writes: On Dec 27, 10:56am, Greg Troxel wrote: One option would be to turn /boot into something that works like pvgrub. This shouldn't actually be that hard. This is something that I

Re: System fully writable right after install

2014-11-20 Thread Justin Cormack
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-net...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, just performed a fresh install of a Netbsd 6.1 patch (amd64) from the releng repos. The installl was very smooth (I had tried a Nebsd-7 install but I encountered fatal errors). The last time I

Re: aio co-op with socket kqueue on Netbsd

2014-09-03 Thread Justin Cormack
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:38 PM, LeiMing lmfor...@gmail.com wrote: Using signals is not going to perform very well, I would not do that... For the lack of implementation of realtime signals, maybe settimer api can be used to handle client's timeout. It's not realtime signals so kqueue can

Re: NetBSD on VMware ESXi

2014-07-04 Thread Justin Cormack
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, 三輪晋( Miwa Susumu ) miwa...@gmail.com wrote: hi. Can I use NetBSD as a guest OS on VMWare ESXi? NetBSD is not included in the document. VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html I using the NetBSD if

Re: specs for a netbsd build system?

2014-06-22 Thread Justin Cormack
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@kathe.in wrote: hello, looks like my current machine is dying, hence all the problems with even installing netbsd 6.1.4 on it. i would be going for a new machine, primarily with the intent of custom building netbsd for a particular

Re: lua in kernel!

2014-06-18 Thread Justin Cormack
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@kathe.in wrote: hello, while i was drawn to netbsd because of the upcoming lua support in the kernel and userland, i am quite lost about the probable use cases for real-world scenarios. prima-face, it feels quite strange to have a

Re: Create a file with history in sh

2014-06-18 Thread Justin Cormack
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Rocky Hotas rockyho...@post.com wrote: Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 2:51 PM From: Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com To: Rocky Hotas rockyho...@post.com Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Create a file with history in sh I've redirected followups to

Re: NetBSD+Xen with short-lived throw-away guests

2014-03-05 Thread Justin Cormack
On 5 Mar 2014 14:59, Stephen Borrill net...@precedence.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Stephan wrote: What we need is something like Citrix Provisioning Services. Yes - but even Linux is not longer supported as guest by PVS. XenServer 6.2 has clone-on-boot (designed for MCS as opposed to

Re: Randomness [was: Re: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying]

2014-01-15 Thread Justin Cormack
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Fredrik Pettai pet...@nordu.net wrote: While at the topic randomness, would be good if NetBSD could implement an ioctl like Linux RNDADDENTROPY? This helps to increase the randomness by importing inserting from other random sources, like the YubiHSM etc.

Re: ktr_header

2013-12-11 Thread Justin Cormack
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com wrote: When /usr/include/sys/ktrace.h says of struct ktr_header int ktr_len;/* length of record minus length of old header */ What is the length of the old header? It doesnt seem to be defined