Re: Anyone recall the dreaded tstile issue?

2022-07-20 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Jul 19, 2022, at 6:45 PM, Mouse wrote: > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > >>> [...kernel coredump...kernel stack traces...] >>> [...dig up a way to get userland stack traces...] > >> I did a pile of work on GDB, 10 or more years ago, to add that >> capability for the non-standard system

Re: Anyone recall the dreaded tstile issue?

2022-07-19 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Jul 19, 2022, at 9:57 AM, Mouse wrote: > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > I've been exchanging email off-list about this with a few people. One > of them remarked that a kernel coredump would help. > > Yesterday it wedged again. I got a kernel coredump...and, well, as I > put it in

Re: pcc [was Re: valgrind]

2022-03-22 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Mar 22, 2022, at 1:21 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > At Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:54:43 -0400 (EDT), Mouse > wrote: > Subject: pcc [was Re: valgrind] >> I've been making very-spare-time progress on building my own compiler on and off for some years now; perhaps I'll eventually get

Re: valgrind

2022-03-22 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Mar 22, 2022, at 5:11 PM, Rhialto wrote: > > On Tue 22 Mar 2022 at 20:59:05 +0000, Koning, Paul wrote: > ... >> If it does, that would mean you can't get a pointer to a nested >> function, which is no different from the C++ rule that you can't get a >

Re: valgrind

2022-03-22 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Mar 22, 2022, at 4:53 PM, Rhialto wrote: > > On Tue 22 Mar 2022 at 17:46:49 +0000, Koning, Paul wrote: >> I don't believe ALGOL implementations needed executable stacks to implement >> nested functions, for example. > > No, a common way to do it (as in th

Re: nested functions [was Re: valgrind]

2022-03-22 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Mar 22, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Mouse wrote: > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > >>> I found an interesting article about why they're bad... >>>

Re: valgrind

2022-03-22 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Mar 22, 2022, at 1:17 PM, Rhialto wrote: > > On Sun 20 Mar 2022 at 23:17:57 -0400, Mouse wrote: >> clang is - or at least was last I checked - under the impression that >> nested functions are little-used and thus are not worth supporting. > > I guess they can think so because nested

Re: valgrind

2022-03-21 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Mar 20, 2022, at 7:58 PM, Mouse wrote: > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > >>> Perhaps I just need a better approach > >> I know you've previously expressed a lack of interest in such things >> when we've talked previously, but I've found the built-in sanitizers >> in modern GCC useful for

Re: about langage neutral

2022-03-09 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Mar 9, 2022, at 5:18 AM, jo...@nonadev.net wrote: > > Hello tech-kern, > > I'm discorvering the article about language-neutral-interfaces for system > calls. > >

Re: wsvt25 backspace key should match terminfo definition

2021-11-23 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Nov 23, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 09:22:43 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> >> I think (memory is getting fuzzy) the problem is that the old terminals >> had a delete key, in the upper right, that users use to remove the >> previous

Re: 9.1: boot-time delay? [WORKAROUND FOUND]

2021-05-27 Thread Koning, Paul
> On May 27, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > > ... > While changing ms to us is probably a good idea, when a change happens, > the "hz" part should be changed too. > > hz is (a unit of) a measure of frequency, ms (or us) is (a unit of) a > measure of time (duration) - converting one to

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-06 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Apr 6, 2021, at 2:21 PM, Martin Husemann wrote: > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:54:51AM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> Except it seems to be useless in practice without an initial seed, > > Yes. > >> And the stock implementation has no possibility of ever

Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering

2021-04-06 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Apr 6, 2021, at 1:54 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > At Mon, 5 Apr 2021 23:18:55 -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > Subject: Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering >> >>> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/random bs=32 count=1 >> >> It's no better. > > So then I would say

Re: Reparenting processes?

2020-12-08 Thread Koning, Paul
> On Dec 8, 2020, at 8:01 AM, i...@netbsd.org wrote: > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 08:54:33PM -0500, Mouse wrote: >> I've been thinking about building a way to move a job between shells, >> in particular between one window, ssh session, whatever, and another. > > Yes,