[request-sponsor] Come join me on Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala Sun OSUM on Sun Open Source University Meetup...

2008-09-15 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 15 Sep 2008 at 06:32PM, Avinash Joshi wrote: > Sun Open Source University Meetup > > [1]Avinash Avinash Joshi has invited you to join Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, >JoshiKerala Sun OSUM on Sun Open Source University Meetup > [2]Avinash >Joshi Avinash, Please, don't spam lists

[request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for defect 2009

2008-07-14 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 14 Jul 2008 at 07:54PM, Dale Ghent wrote: > > Bug: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2009 > > Fix: > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~daleg/defect-2009/ > > Contributor ID: OS0117 Dale, can you bring this on over to pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org? That's where the pkg dev team

[request-sponsor] 4532599: ptime should report resource usage statistics from /proc for running processes

2008-04-14 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 14 Apr 2008 at 12:45PM, Chad Mynhier wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Dan Price wrote: > > On Sat 12 Apr 2008 at 04:32PM, Chad Mynhier wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2007 at 2:05 PM, Chad Mynhier > > wrote: > > > > > > I'd like t

[request-sponsor] 4532599: ptime should report resource usage statistics from /proc for running processes

2008-04-14 Thread Dan Price
On Sat 12 Apr 2008 at 04:32PM, Chad Mynhier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2007 at 2:05 PM, Chad Mynhier wrote: > > I'd like to request a sponsor for > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=4532599. This is a bit > > of an odd request given that RFE is marked "6-Fix Understood (Fix is > >

[request-sponsor] self-service beta testing

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 17 Oct 2007 at 08:41PM, Jim Walker wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > I was wondering if there was some way to upload bfu archives via rsync > > or scp instead of a browser upload similar to how cr.opensolaris.org > > works. > > > > I would much prefer that over using a browser for such a larg

[request-sponsor] 4532599: ptime should report resource usage statistics from /proc for running processes

2007-10-04 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 04 Oct 2007 at 02:05PM, Chad Mynhier wrote: > I'd like to request a sponsor for > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=4532599. This is a bit > of an odd request given that RFE is marked "6-Fix Understood (Fix is > known)". It appears that the responsible engineer has left Sun, >

[request-sponsor] 4884338:There should be a generic implementation of strdup() in the kernel

2007-09-07 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 07 Sep 2007 at 04:40PM, Dan McDonald wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:34:15PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > You'll also want to ensure that you have some consumers for this > > > functionality-- the obvious thing would be to rip out the various > > > other strdup's which exist. > > >

[request-sponsor] 4884338:There should be a generic implementation of strdup() in the kernel

2007-09-07 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 06 Sep 2007 at 09:16PM, madhav chauhan wrote: > Hi, > > I came across this bug while browsing through the bug database. I am > working on this bug .I have already signed the Sun Contributor > Agreement and my SCA number is OS0106. > > Please let me know the procedure for working

[request-sponsor] request sponsor for 6442524

2006-12-05 Thread Dan Price
codereview from Eric Saxe and Jeremy Teo, who did this work just a few months ago. I was a codereviewer, and the reason is that we identified this issue in the codereview: Dan Price wrote: > Could this use the standards-based library routines gethostname(3c) and > sethostname(3c)? Which tur

[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

2006-11-03 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 03 Nov 2006 at 10:34AM, Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > > >> Assuming we do steps 1 and 2 above, do we get into any problems with > >> POSIX compliance if the default basic privilege set does not include > >> PRIV_SYS_SYNC? > > There is no such thing as a "default basic set". > > There's a

[request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646

2006-10-29 Thread Dan Price
On Sun 29 Oct 2006 at 12:39PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > 4967733 bad idea for zones to sync(1M) during shutdown > 6400646 zones induce between 0 and 6 calls to sync() on each reboot > > The attached patch addresses these bugs. Contributor agreement is OS0018. I'll sponsor this one. (Uhh, except tha

[request-sponsor] request for sponsor to add synaptics support

2006-10-23 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 23 Oct 2006 at 05:40PM, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > > > >Our driver supports it. > > Excellent. > > (These are all feature requests I got and (partially) implemented for > my driver, so I htink they're important for customers) So Casper, you're sponsoring this, right? -dp -

[request-sponsor] Fwd: 6471646 - quota -h

2006-10-07 Thread Dan Price
On Sat 07 Oct 2006 at 07:45AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > Any takers on this one? I have a patch ready. > > Contributor # is OS0018. I'll take it. We'll need to prep and file a brief ARC case. Did we ever get a working "humanized" number function in libc? -dp -- Daniel Price - Solaris Ker

[request-sponsor] request new sponsor for: 4687825

2006-08-16 Thread Dan Price
Hi all, Karyn keeps letting me know how I've been lagging on getting my sponsorship duties done for 4687825 *cron* /etc/cron.d/FIFO should move to /var/run/CRONFIFO If there is another sponsor out there who would like to pick this up (and not sit on it like I did), I'd appreciate it; I'm juggli

[request-sponsor] Re: 4687825 - *cron* /etc/cron.d/FIFO should move

2006-04-07 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 07 Apr 2006 at 08:54PM, Stephen Potter wrote: > Not realizing this had already been done, I started to look at this the other > night. Surprisingly, I came up with almost exactly the same changes as Rich, > except I only used "/var/run/cron" instead of "/var/run/CRONFIFO". > > I also c

[request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-03-17 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 08 Mar 2006 at 11:42AM, Dan Price wrote: > On Wed 08 Mar 2006 at 10:49AM, Karyn Ritter wrote: > > I'll figure out where to put the definitions. This the real status that > > is in Bugster, so we need to document it anyway > > So, I wonder if we could use Pe

[request-sponsor] SFW source tarball release

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 16 Mar 2006 at 05:20PM, Marilyn Shoemaker wrote: > > > Folks > > The SFW consolidation expects to begin regular source tarball releases > on opensolaris.org within the next week. > > We will accept bug fixes from the community and will follow the ON model > for dealing with those fixes.

[request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-03-08 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 08 Mar 2006 at 10:49AM, Karyn Ritter wrote: > I'll figure out where to put the definitions. This the real status that > is in Bugster, so we need to document it anyway So, I wonder if we could use Perl's WWW::Mechanize [1] or something equivalent to automate the updating of pages. The

[request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] 1 new request-sponsor putback: 39 total

2006-03-02 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 02 Mar 2006 at 11:33AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > > >>It would be cool if the diffs would be part of the announcements. > > > > > >The diffs are always attached to the bug ID in the bug database. They > >don't appear on the bugs.opensolarig.org though. I don't

[request-sponsor] RFE - zoneadm clone should use zfs snapshot/clone

2006-02-20 Thread Dan Price
On Sun 19 Feb 2006 at 08:59PM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > Mike, > > There is already an RFE open for this: > > 6383119 RFE: add support for using zfs clones when cloning a zone > > and we are in the middle of active development on this feature already. > The code we have will automatically create zf

[request-sponsor] 6352485 - RFE: add $zonename to the list of macros supported by logadm

2005-12-17 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 02 Dec 2005 at 01:34PM, Richard Lowe wrote: > Patch for bug: > 6352485 - RFE: add $zonename to the list of macros supported by logadm > > http://richlowe.net/patches/6352485.diff I'll sponsor this bug fix. It's a smart idea! -dp -- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp

[request-sponsor] 4687825 - *cron* /etc/cron.d/FIFO should move to /var/run/CRONFIFO

2005-12-02 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 02 Dec 2005 at 11:09PM, Richard Lowe wrote: > Patch for bug: > 4687825 - *cron* /etc/cron.d/FIFO should move to /var/run/CRONFIFO > > http://richlowe.net/patches/4687825.diff > > contributor agreement #OS0007 Me me me! I'll sponsor this one, although it may take me until about the 10th

[request-sponsor] Round2: Sponsor Proposal

2005-10-28 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 27 Oct 2005 at 08:18PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > "dep" == David Powell writes: > > dep> One of the problems is that we have no good way to measure the > dep> quality of their mentoring. > > I think the idea was to treat the level-3 folks as interns, similar to > the way new ARC memb

[request-sponsor] please read: sponsor proposal

2005-10-21 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 21 Oct 2005 at 02:17PM, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > > What's the minimum qualification for membership in tier 3? > > There is no minimum qualification which is the reason for the partner > requirement. I don't agree with this structure, then. I think that at a minimum, one should be considered

[request-sponsor] please read: sponsor proposal

2005-10-21 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 21 Oct 2005 at 12:49PM, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > Nope - you're not the first, so this is my error. > > The original concept of sponsoring had two tiers: CRT advocates and > sponsors. Both tiers require some amount of experience working in and > putting back to the O/N source hierarchy. Both