Re: [osol-discuss] OpenBSD donation request

2006-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars C wrote: I think that a significant donation by Sun would not only help the OpenBSD project in sustaining the development of OpenSSH, but would also be a good public relations opportunity. Sun already has in the past made donations both

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: New version of |strcat()| ...

2006-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling writes: I have a re-implementation in my libschily [...] * WARNING: a NULL constant is not a NULL pointer, so a caller must * cast a NULL constant to a pointer: (char *)NULL How's that? This is a conclusion from the C

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: New version of |strcat()| ...

2006-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Coopersmith writes: Also, as I noted on IRC, strlcat() is close to this, and much safer. snprintf is simpler still and just as safe. This does not work in case the call to strlcat() would be done from within a loop. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: From On build to DVD ISO - how?

2006-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rainer Orth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ask the Belenix or Nexenta guys. The stuff that Solaris RE uses isn't available and probably never will be (and won't work anyway since ON packages don't work yet). Note that you'll likely want more than

[osol-discuss] Anyone still using Sun's csh ?

2006-03-28 Thread Yann POUPET
Hi All, I was wondering if people still use Sun's csh. I began to work on a bug found in the bug database about csh ( http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4635088 ). After I have fixed it, I thought maybe I could fix some other csh bugs since I was inside its code. I then

Re: [osol-discuss] 2 new request-sponsor putbacks: 47 total

2006-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Rich Lowe for these two fixes below and to Sarah Jelinek for sponsoring the work through to putback. -- Jim Putback 46 ID: 4759320 Desc: Read-only UFS global mounts should not try to turn on logging Submitted by Richard Lowe on 12/07/05

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: New version of |strcat()| ...

2006-03-28 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: How's that? This is a conclusion from the C standard I should have been more explicit. It seemed like a strange place for a comment like this. that: strcatl(char *to, size_t tolen, ...) but, then, that calls the return value into question. The

[osol-discuss] MPLS project proposal

2006-03-28 Thread James Carlson
The MPLS project is an effort to support Multiprotocol Label Switching (as described in IETF Standards-Track RFCs 3031, 3032, and others) on Solaris. This protocol is roughly like X.25 or ATM, but in an IP-centric context. It's useful for creating VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), remote bridges,

[osol-discuss] SXCR/onnv status

2006-03-28 Thread Karyn Ritter
SXCR is on track to be released on Friday (3/31). Steve is working on a nightly sync up with onnv_37 that he will post in the next day or so. Thanks, Karyn ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] hwdb is ported to NexentaOS

2006-03-28 Thread Erast Benson
Hi Guys, I just wanted to let you know that I fully ported (fixed some bugs, added some features) and integrated HWDB client and server backend into NexentaOS. It will be an integral part of upcoming Alpha 4 release. Screenshots: http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/ErastBenson/HWDB_screenshots --

Re: [osol-discuss] Creating new device node in device tree at system startup.

2006-03-28 Thread Louis Gagne
This is in fact how its done. The important step is to add the set pci_allow_pseudo_children=1 to the etc/system file, otherwise PCI will not load the information. When I first tried to add device node information to the dot-conf file pci wouldn't read it, but it was not evident why it

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: New version of |strcat()| ...

2006-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a conclusion from the C standard I should have been more explicit. It seemed like a strange place for a comment like this. If you did see the modifications done to my software by people from SuSE or Debian, you would understand why I put

Re: [osol-discuss] MPLS project proposal

2006-03-28 Thread Sebastien Roy
James Carlson wrote: This is being proposed as an open project; anyone willing to participate is welcome. The initial leadership will be Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez and myself. I second the proposal. -Seb ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] hwdb is ported to NexentaOS

2006-03-28 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey Erast, On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:15 -0800, Erast Benson wrote: Hi Guys, I just wanted to let you know that I fully ported (fixed some bugs, added some features) and integrated HWDB client and server backend into NexentaOS. It will be an integral part of upcoming Alpha 4 release.

[osol-discuss] Re: Anyone still using Sun's csh ?

2006-03-28 Thread John Brewer
I was able to reproduce this bug id 4635088 on my Solaris 10u1 AMD XP chip 2000mhz, I do know of users that still use the csh and I still do as well! I thinkg it's great that someone has intrest in these old outstanding issues, that drives everyone nut's but never say's anything! # csh Server#

[osol-discuss] B35 install: Entire Group + OEM Size correct?

2006-03-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Hey All, I am just installing B35 (X86), and noticed that the installer reports that Entire Group and Entire Group Plus OEM are the same size at 3376.6 MB. I guess that this is not quite correct...? Regards... Sean. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [Fwd: [osol-discuss] RFE: Replace /usr/css/bin/make with dmake inSolaris/OpenSolaris]

2006-03-28 Thread James C. McPherson
Roland Mainz wrote: Do you have any idea who may be interested in implementing the proposal below ? No, I don't, unfortunately. I get the feeling though that it is an idea whose time has come. Original Message Subject: [osol-discuss] RFE: Replace /usr/css/bin/make with

Re: [Fwd: [osol-discuss] RFE: Replace /usr/css/bin/make with dmakeinSolaris/OpenSolaris]

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
James C. McPherson wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Do you have any idea who may be interested in implementing the proposal below ? No, I don't, unfortunately. I get the feeling though that it is an idea whose time has come. Well, the idea was already proposed a couple of times in the last

Re: [osol-discuss] B35 install: Entire Group + OEM Size correct?

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Sean Sprague wrote: I am just installing B35 (X86), and noticed that the installer reports that Entire Group and Entire Group Plus OEM are the same size at 3376.6 MB. I guess that this is not quite correct...? Wild guessing: There are no OEM packages in this build so these install clusters

RFE: Mailman list for genunix Wiki diffs / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Changes to the Genunix Wiki

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Ben Rockwood wrote: If there are any further issues, annoyances, requests or general Genunix comments please, as usual, address them to Al Hopper and/or myself. Is it possible to get a mailman list to which the diffs (gdiff -u) of the changes are posted (similar to a CVS commit list most

[osol-discuss] Re: Trouble with ON's perl when building from a SVN-based sourcerepository...

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Burlison wrote: and so on... at various points (not only in the perl subdirs) the private files of the SVN repository (e.g. .svn*) are touched (AFAIK this will likely happen with .cvs/ dirs, too) - IMO a bad thing... ;-( This is a OpenSolaris B35 build, checked-out from

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Stefan Parvu wrote: We should think to have /bin/sh as ksh93. It is elegant and simple to do. Are there any objections why /bin/sh cannot be a ksh93 ? This is unlikely to happen in the forseeable future. It's already difficult enougth to convince Sun to switch /bin/ksh from ksh88 to ksh93

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Stefan Parvu wrote: Uaau, I see we have now a dedicated ksh93 migration forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=103 I hope folks will agree and get this fixed somehow. stefan This project has the goal to integrate ksh93 into (Open-)Solaris including the update of /bin/ksh

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Funding OpenSSH]

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: Roland Mainz writes: Beyond that point this issue it does not only affect Sun, it also affects OpenSolaris and the related distributions which makes it a valid email for this list. It's perhaps worth noting that the ssh in Solaris is deliberately SunSSH. Though it

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Funding OpenSSH]

2006-03-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Felix Schulte wrote: Yes. And Sun SSH is still vulnerable to X11keyboard sniffing. open ssh has untrusted X11 forwarding for that - Sun SSH does not. And how many people use it? No clue. But it makes sense in some environments. And it's not openssh.org's or

Re: RFE: Mailman list for genunix Wiki diffs / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Changes to the Genunix Wiki

2006-03-28 Thread Ben Rockwood
Roland Mainz wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: If there are any further issues, annoyances, requests or general Genunix comments please, as usual, address them to Al Hopper and/or myself. Is it possible to get a mailman list to which the diffs (gdiff -u) of the changes are posted (similar