On Sat, 10 May 2014 08:11:40 +0200
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote:
kern/48787 can be counted as a successful one.
kern/48797 demonstrates that i need to free myself more from
expectations which occupied my mind when studying isofs of
a different kernel.
Thanks to Martin Husemann for
On Tue, 06 May 2014 12:20:53 +0200
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote:
How to properly submit them ?
A PR (Problem Report) in the kern category with an attached unified
diff would seem adequate if you cannot commit the changes yourself.
Sorry if that is already obvious to you.
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:15:16 +0200
J. Hannken-Illjes hann...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de wrote:
vcache_get(mp, key, key_len, vpp) to lookup and possibly load a vnode.
vcache_lookup(mp, key, key_len, vpp) to lookup a vnode.
vcache_remove(mp, key, key_len) to remove a vnode from the cache.
On Sat, 10 May 2014 01:29:47 +
Taylor R Campbell campbell+netbsd-tech-k...@mumble.net wrote:
Is it expected in vcache_common() for the interlock to remain held even
if returning an error?
vget unconditionally drops the interlock, so it will never remain
held, error or not.
Oh,
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:00:45 +0200
Roger Pau Monne roger@citrix.com wrote:
Yes, WAPBL enabled. I will fill a PR about this if there are no news.
Was a PR already filed for this, or was the reason discovered and fixed
since? A quick search showed one of your closed Xen related PRs but it
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:45:22 -0700
buh...@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) wrote:
provide further results. I assume a fix would want to be pulled
up,assuming I find it, on the grounds that it's a security fix. I'll also
see about trying -current and NetBSD-6, but I'm guessing those are
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:42:49 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Goyette p...@whooppee.com wrote:
Sorry for the long delay, I'm slowly recouping with tech-kern mail.
I recently noticed that there is a built-in ksem module that includes
sys/kern/uipc_sem.c
The man page for sem(4) states that this code should
On Tue, 6 May 2014 07:56:22 -0700
Brian Buhrow buh...@nfbcal.org wrote:
hello. There was a fix implemented for the original problem by Chuck
Silvers and tested by me. I'll look to see if I can find the commits.
I'm not sure if it was documented in a pr or not or if it got pulled up to
On Mon, 5 May 2014 15:43:56 +1200
Mark Davies m...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz wrote:
On Mon, 05 May 2014, Christos Zoulas wrote:
I wrote:
So can someone suggest where exactly the patch should go. And
isn't proc_lock held at this point (entered at line 344, exit at
line 569)?
How about this?
On Mon, 5 May 2014 01:10:24 -0400
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
which some CPUs might have trouble with (i.e. RAS)...
I think that what I meant was CAS
--
Matt
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:21:02 +0200
Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se wrote:
On 2014-04-02 16:10, John Nemeth wrote:
On Apr 2, 1:55pm, Johnny Billquist wrote:
} The root fs in on nfs, as I'm running the machine diskless. Disk is
} served from a -current NetBSD/alpha system sitting right
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:59:14 +0200
Edgar Fuß e...@math.uni-bonn.de wrote:
Just out of curiosity: Why was 6.0_BETA renamed 6.0_BETA2 recently?
The release of second beta binaries:
http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_0_beta2_binaries
After the beta series, release candidates might be
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:28:14 -0700
jnem...@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote:
On Dec 17, 1:58pm, Matthew Mondor wrote:
} This reminds me though: why/how does sysctl/kern.module.autoload
} default to 1 for non-MODULAR kernels (at least on netbsd-6)? Or an
} alternative question
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:57:52 + (UTC)
Geoff Wing ma...@primenet.com.au wrote:
John Nemeth jnem...@victoria.tc.ca typed:
: .. Being able to properly unload a built-in module would be a nice
: feature.
This sounds a bit like a possible security problem, though
presumably/hopefully
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:54:28 + (UTC)
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
I would also guess that sparse files are very rarely used. But for
disk usage purposes you want to consider real disk usage including
overhead because the quotas are mostly used to partition the available
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:26:44 -0400
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
A scenario in which they're frequently used is block-based file system
s/file system/file/ :)
--
Matt
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:54:07 +
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:33:42PM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
Yet another hack would be to create a sparse ffs image under a tmpfs,
mounted with quotas via vnd, but evaluating its ideal size might
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:03:42 +
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote:
I believe the situation with both mfs and lfs is that some pieces of
the support are in place but not others. It was clear when hacking up
the code that neither had actually been tried by anyone in a long,
long
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:17:42 +0200
Edgar Fuß e...@math.uni-bonn.de wrote:
How do I enable new quota on a tmpfs?
A possible solution might be a per-user tmpfs, each limited using -s...
of course, it's more complex to manage though.
If I remember there is some optional support for symbolic links
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 17:57:00 +0200
Edgar Fuß e...@math.uni-bonn.de wrote:
Please not /kernel as it was already mentioned, it is too similar to
/kern.
What about /netbsd? E.g. /netbsd/6.0_BETA/{modules,kernel,firmware}.
/netbsd/amd64/6.0/GENERIC/{modules,kernel,firmware} :) ?
But can the
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:46:50 +0200
Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.mig...@free.fr wrote:
On 07.07.2012 21:57, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
Hello,
Regarding the PR/38724, I propose to change the path to /kernel/.
Can we reach some consensus quickly for netbsd-6?
/kernel is way to close to
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:54:12 -0600
Warner Losh i...@bsdimp.com wrote:
But it kinda fails with multiple kernels. On FreeBSD, we went with
/boot/$KERNNAME/kernel for the kernel, with all the modules associated with
it in /boot/$KERNNAME. By default, we load /boot/kernel/kernel and the loader
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:20:36 -
David Lord net...@lordynet.org wrote:
I tried NetBSD-6-BETA2 but had too many problems.
Attempted reinstalls of NetBSD-5 have all obviously
failed.
Indeed, downgrading is usually more problematic, postinstall not being
of much use in this case
--
Matt
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:50:58 +0200
Manuel Bouyer bou...@antioche.eu.org wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 11:09:26AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
Therefore comes the idea to have a per-mount maxvnodes.
I tried implementing it, the biggest problem is how to set the value.
sysctl
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 22:30:10 +0200
Thomas Klausner w...@netbsd.org wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 01:45:53PM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
Although it's useful to mount random media more safely than it would be
using kernel-space, I noticed that using 64KB reads, the kernel cd9660
On Mon, 28 May 2012 06:51:43 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Goyette p...@whooppee.com wrote:
I _do_ like part 2 of your proposal - linking the core kernel first,
and then re-linking with selected modules.
I also think that this would be very nice
--
Matt
On Thu, 31 May 2012 10:38:38 -0400 (EDT)
Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote:
Recently we found out (PR kern/46463) that kqueue() file descriptors,
which originaly were designed to be local process only objects,
could be passed with SCM_RIGHTS messages to other processes. [...]
I
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:40:44 -0400
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
What I can see is that the implications of inheriting this special
descriptor are quite more complex than for normal FDs... Which makes
me think that it very well could be a design decision not to inherit
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:47:31 +
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote:
But, how about kern.module.supported or kern.module.canload or
something?
I like the kern.module.supported, or perhaps kern.module.enabled, as I
have systems built without module loading support yet still have a
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:35:13 +0900
Julio Merino j...@julipedia.org wrote:
Personally, I'd also like to see this project done. It was at one point
an idea I wanted to work on, but then lost the time to do so and
forgotten about it completely.
I was initially reticent to reply to this thread
Hello,
I stumbled upon something interesting tonight when testing a new
unstable ECL (Embeddable Common Lisp). When built with TLS support
(--with-__threads=yes), a noticeable slowdown can be experienced
compared to with --with-_threads=no. For now, I'm not sure yet if it
has to do with a bug
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:14:52 -
David Lord net...@lordynet.org wrote:
I have since obtained netbsd-6 src via cvs on a different system,
built a release, copied sets over network and updated target pc
to NetBSD-6. I am able to mount the cdrom and tar -tzvf comp.tgz
initially gave same error
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:02:38 -0500 (EST)
Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote:
Of course the feature would be broken in some cases, but we could
make the thing optional using a vfs.puffs.respawn sysctl, which would
contain a colon-separated mount points subjected to respawn.
What
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:51:19 +
Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org wrote:
We ahve two extended attributes API in tree: one from FreeBSD and one from
Linux. We are about to toss the FreeBSD one in favor of the Linux one.
That is easy now since we never had working extended attributes in a
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:25:46 -0500
Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:05 58PM, Matt Thomas wrote:
On Jan 23, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
I also wonder whether we should also have a note that disabled SIGPIPE.
similar to what paxctl
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:01:49 +0100
Martin Husemann mar...@duskware.de wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Paul Fleischer wrote:
Is the usage of STACKALIGN indeed incorrect in this situation, or am I
missing the big picture?
I stumbled across this when revamping execve1 for
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:36:35 -0500
Elad Efrat e...@netbsd.org wrote:
Attached is a diff that reduces the use of KAUTH_GENERIC_ISSUSER. I
plan to commit it a week or so after the branch.
Thanks for working on this.
While I understand most changes, after looking at the diff I wondered:
anyone
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:21:40 -0500 (EST)
Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote:
However, I think that constitutes a good implementation of a bad idea.
This makes a file no longer a long list of octets; it becomes multiple
long lists of octets. The Mac did this, with resource forks and data
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:56:33 + (UTC)
y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
when the kernel wants to cache other files.
ie. whenever the kernel decides to reclaim it. :-)
you can increase the chance by running
while :;do sysctl -w kern.maxvnodes=0; done
or something like
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:20:16 +
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote:
The other obvious approach is to add one or more new ptrace operations
to provide proper/adequate/better support for intercepting system
calls. This is probably a more useful facility in the long run, and it
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:19:22 +
Taylor R Campbell campbell+net...@mumble.net wrote:
+
+ error = fd_close(SCARG(uap, fd));
+ if (error == ERESTART)
+ error = EINTR;
+
+ return error;
If it's also guaranteed that the file descriptor state is closed in the
event of
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:40:33 -0500
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:34:03 -0500
Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote:
If you run 10 or so copies at once on a multiprocessor system
with DIAGNOSTIC, you'll see a lot of this message emitted
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:34:03 -0500
Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote:
If you run 10 or so copies at once on a multiprocessor system
with DIAGNOSTIC, you'll see a lot of this message emitted:
vrelel: missing VOP_CLOSE(): vnode @ 0xfe801e73cb28, flags
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:04:06 +0100
m...@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote:
- a fixed lentgh header is highly desirable for performance
optimization. For instance glusterfs fetches the header and the data
using readv(2) with an iovec that has two slots. That way it gets write
date aligned on
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:12:25 -0500
Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote:
Linux systems do periodically write ext2 meta-data to the disk. And
ext2 fsck has always been very good, and has gotten better over the
years, due to the efforts of Ted T'so. I first installed Linux in
1993, almost
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:33:54 +0100
Nicolas Joly nj...@pasteur.fr wrote:
According to the online OpenGroup specification for read(2) available
at [1], read(2) on directories is implementation dependant. If
unsupported, it shall fail with EISDIR.
In the case of sys/rump/librump/rumpvfs/rumpfs.c,
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:56:32 +0100
Nicolas Joly nj...@pasteur.fr wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 04:36:55AM -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote:
In the case of sys/rump/librump/rumpvfs/rumpfs.c, is it possible that
the underlaying implementation could previously decide if it could
support read(2
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:50:35 -0500
Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote:
were not designed to do this. The reason I'm beating on this is that I
would have liked to use NetBSD for the application I have in mind, but
I need the performance improvement that async provides (my tests show
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 04:19:13 + (UTC)
y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
Although I didn't think it'd be necessary to say so until this point, I
admit that I myself didn't really understand what Takashi said about
recommending amd64 over i386. If the hardware is 32-bit, or
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:51:38 +0100
Jean-Yves Migeon j...@netbsd.org wrote:
Reviews before merge welcome. If nobody raises his voice, I'll proceed
to commit it at the end of the week.
Hello,
I admit not having audited the kauth and secmodel code recently, the
last time being shortly after
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:25:24 +0400
Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote:
Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com writes:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50:58PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
Mindaugas Rasiukevicius rm...@netbsd.org writes:
y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
hi,
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:04:46 +
Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org wrote:
FWIW I spent weeks tracking down a file corruption bug on growing giles
in PUFFS because VOP_GETATTR operates on an unlocked vnode. If the
VOP_GETATTR request follows a not yet completed VOP_FSYNC (as done by
ioflush
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:45:52 +
Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 03:26:35AM -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote:
I seem to remember you previously writing about using puffs/rump on
netbsd-5, is that still on netbsd-5?
I use PUFFS on netbsd-5, and fixed a few bugs
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:50:17 +0100
Manuel Bouyer bou...@antioche.eu.org wrote:
In this context, text format means a key/value pair format, in which
some keys are optionnal and values can be of arbitrary types. Maybe you can
do this with a binary format too, but it doesn't exists yet.
This
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:08:30 +
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote:
I was recently talking to some people who'd been working with some
(physicists, I think) doing data-intensive simulation of some kind,
and that reminded me: for various reasons, many people who are doing
serious
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:01:48 +1100
matthew green m...@eterna.com.au wrote:
Since the default is to not allow affinity control, it's not of utmost
importance, but it could allow a compromise between total restriction
and total freedom... I have no objection to that sysctl personally.
i
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:50:49 +0100
Jean-Yves Migeon j...@netbsd.org wrote:
Here's a proposal for a sysctl(7) knob to easily allow non-superusers to
set the CPU affinity of processes and threads they own:
security.secmodel.suser.usersetaffinity
(ressembles the one already existing to
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:58:27 -0400
Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
Obligatory actual netbsd tech-kern content: It seems like we really need
a sync_synchronous(2) system call that guarantees that all file system
operations that have completed (syscall returned) before the issuance of
the
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:33:29 -0400
Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
So, I'm inclined to patch rdiff-backup not to fsync, since it seems
excessive, and the backup is toast if the machine crashes before it is
finished -- in that case rdiff-backup just rolls back. Opinions?
I also wonder why
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:29:12 -0400
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
If unicode strings are possible, I think that it'd be possible for a
string to look like system but to actually be something else to an
auditing administrator, unless all tools clearly showed those non-ASCII
Hello,
There were previously discussions, started by Emmanuel, concerning the
extended attributes, including on the various available APIs and which
to support etc.
At the time I read them I was catching up with a lot of mail and had
written down a small note about a potential security
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 00:40:46 -0700
Erik Fair f...@netbsd.org wrote:
Why not a classification/taxonomy of kernel missives? This doesn't mean we
can't continue to have relatively free form (and possibly amusing) text for
those conditions we're not yet prepared to classify/codify yet ('cause
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:31:17 -0700
Erik Fair f...@netbsd.org wrote:
less(1) (or more(1)) doesn't take care of you? The nice thing about such
formatting is that the text can be wrapped at relatively arbitrary word
boundaries, making it more readably displayable on a wider range of display
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:35:16 +0200
Alan Barrett a...@cequrux.com wrote:
(flowed paragraph follows)
Ignoring special cases, the rules are roughly this: The sender
marks soft-wrapped paragraphs by ending every line except the
last with a space. The sender marks hard-wrapped lines by not
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:36:03 +0200
Emmanuel Kasper emman...@libera.cc wrote:
I have just posted a detailed install from GRUB howto on netbsd-users.
Did the documentation you proposed get commited into the official docs
somewhere since? If not, please consider filing a PR with the
information,
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:38:13 +0200
Marc Balmer m...@msys.ch wrote:
With gpio(4) we still carry an old API with us, which I want to remove.
While working on it, I will also introduce a third locator to device drivers
that attach to gpio pins, flags. It will be needed for e.g. gpioiic(4) to
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:38:31 -0400
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 00:26:43 + (UTC)
chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
Please file a PR about this. I've been meaning to fix it.
Thanks, I will.
For reference and to close this thread
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:07:52 +0200
Alistair Crooks a...@pkgsrc.org wrote:
Sorry for replying to an old thread, I'm still catching up with mail :)
i've found this some what annoying. IMO, we should have a a way to say
let normal users do this. i'm not sure sysctl is the right place, but
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:04:23 -0700
Bob Lee g...@force10networks.com wrote:
Hello Bob,
I'm working on a PowerPC system, and have a problem when I remove the
usb memory stick the second time. That is insert memory stick, remove
memory stick, insert memory stick, and remove memory stick.
Sorry to reply to such an old thread (I'm catching up with ml mail).
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:35:48 -0700
Erik Fair f...@netbsd.org wrote:
With regard to hot swap storage devices, we really have two choices which
are not mutually exclusive:
1. Treat as now, but with some additional code in
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 00:26:43 + (UTC)
chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
Please file a PR about this. I've been meaning to fix it.
Thanks, I will.
--
Matt
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:30:51 +1000
matthew green m...@eterna.com.au wrote:
I looked at the various tty(4) termios(4) and pty(4) without finding an
option to change the buffer size. Is there a way at all to change it?
there's no option. infact, it's all hard coded as magic 1024 constants
Hello,
I've been wondering if it was possible to change the pty(4) internal
buffer size, as I noticed that ppp tunnels cannot use a larger frame
size. Because of this, it seems that the optimal MTU be 856, which is
so small that context switches become the bottleneck.
It would be nice to for
On Wed, 4 May 2011 19:54:37 -0700
jnem...@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote:
This doesn't mean we should be doing hack jobs. NetBSD is about
doing things right.
Can postinstall fix/recreate specific buggy devices? Or could it warn
that /dev/fd* might need to be recreated? Otherwise,
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:49:14 +0200
Martin Husemann mar...@duskware.de wrote:
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 11:30:16AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
AFAIK dtrace doesn't work on non-modular kernels ...
Nor on most of our archs, and AFAICT there is not even a document
describing the (maybe
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:06:07 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote:
As such, I want to propose moving the last two categories into the Attic
for further dusting.
It makes sense to me,
--
Matt
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:40:44 +
Andrew Doran a...@netbsd.org wrote:
With modules now basically working we should either retire or move
some of these items to pkgsrc so that the interested parties maintain them.
An awful lot of the compat stuff is now very compartmentalised, with not
much
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:17:01 +0100
Stephan stephan...@googlemail.com wrote:
Now this is REALLY strange. I was wondering about why the read speed
is sometimes high (~70MB/s) and sometimes very slow (~2MB/s). So I
repeated the test utilizing
find / -exec cat {} \; /dev/null
to read
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:54:26 +0100
Manuel Bouyer bou...@antioche.eu.org wrote:
Well, in the current state, modules are a not enabled in the Xen kernels
(modules should be built specifically for Xen, but the build tools do not
allow this right now). So you have to compile all what you need in a
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:04:54 +0100
Frank Wille fr...@phoenix.owl.de wrote:
I came to the conclusion that it might be easier and less intrusive to
create a new keymap file (e.g. called ukbd.apple.powerbook) for those
function keys. So they can easily be added to any national keyboard layout.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:30:44 +0100
Juergen Hannken-Illjes hann...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de wrote:
Usually within hours I get a deadlock where a thread is waiting on genput
but the page in question is neither BUSY nor WANTED. I suppose I tracked (*1)
it down to three places, where we change page flags
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:18:52 +0100
Sad Clouds cryintotheblue...@googlemail.com wrote:
A pipelined request, say for 10 small files can be served with a single
writev() system call (provided those files are cached in RAM), if you
rely on kernel file cache, you need to issue 10 write() system
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:06:37 +0100
Sad Clouds cryintotheblue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Well if you're allocating memory yourself, then you've just created your
own application cache.
Say many files were mapped in the process's address space, the OS would
still be responsible of keeping
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:51:03 +0200
Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.mig...@free.fr wrote:
*lurker mode off*
IIRC, part of agc work with netpgp is to integrate signature verification
within kernel.
*lurker mode on*
Thanks, that's nice to know, I didn't look at netpgp yet but might
eventually check
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:31:32 -0400
Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
Signatures provide *authentication*; what is needed here is *authorization*.
While I agree, there also are situations were both can be welcome...
Another solution someone proposed which I like is hashing the modules
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:58:19 -0400
Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote:
2) Finish the asymmetric operation support in cryptodev and
actually require modules to be signed. This is basically a
superset of #1 above that could get about as complicated as
one
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:45:41 -0600
Samuel Greear l...@evilcode.net wrote:
I didn't like the fact that the only option for loading a script into
the kernel was to load the script source. I would make loading
pre-compiled scripts the preferential method. In fact, I would
probably tear eval out
Hello,
Since I have an old Brooktree878 card which NetBSD supports, which I
successfully used in the past with custom software using bktr(4) as
part of a security suite, I thought I'd give it a new life and try to
convert rare VHS which were rotting in a drawer to a digital format.
I tried
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:23:23 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Goyette p...@whooppee.com wrote:
Should these be changed? Are there any adverse effects from having a
wmesg longer than 8 characters?
It seems to me that the exporter of those use strncpy() (i.e.
kern/init_sysctl.c) and that the structures use
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:21:02 +0100
David Laight da...@l8s.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 02:02:51PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
Does anyone object to my going through and coming up with shorter names
(= 8 chars) for these condvars?
It is worth chcking whether they are displayed
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:05:11 +0200
Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.mig...@free.fr wrote:
Opinions? Any interest in it? My intent is to put NetBSD specific
scripts on wiki.n.o, and provide links for more generic ones.
That seems like a handy tool to save time and avoid a number of
typos, if it's used
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Goyette p...@whooppee.com wrote:
That's what I thought I'd get for an answer! :)
There is a serial port, but I haven't figured out yet how to make it
work in the BIOS. And while I do have other machines with serial ports
I've never used those
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:55:51 -0400
Thor Simon t...@coyotepoint.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me why, exactly, we shouldn't remove bound AF_LOCAL
sockets from the filesystem on last close? The following test program
produces second socket bind failed on every system I've tested it on,
and seems
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:51:45 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:55:51PM -0400, Thor Simon wrote:
Can anyone tell me why, exactly, we shouldn't remove bound AF_LOCAL
sockets from the filesystem on last close?
If you want to do that, wouldn't
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:19:03 -0400
Thor Simon t...@coyotepoint.com wrote:
I think this is (always has been) a considerable blind spot on the part
of BSD partisans. Sure, we're happy to gripe about persistent SysV IPC
objects every time we have to remember how to use ipcrm, but bound AF_UNIX
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:59:18 -0400
Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote:
However, I wrote a small test program and realized that despite
SO_REUSEADDR this doesn't work, and indeed after checking the kernel
code SO_REUSEADDR is ignored in the AF_LOCAL unp_bind() code.
Out of curiosity
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:25:59 +
Andrew Doran a...@netbsd.org wrote:
This is mainly down the fact that we need kernel_lock to bracket legacy
sections of code that aren't preemption safe. I think MULTIPROCESSOR
should be sent off to the glue factory but that's another discussion :-).
Is
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:36:47 +0100
Jean-Yves Migeon jeanyves.mig...@free.fr wrote:
Pretty much all servers use the accept loop thing and fork/pthread right
after, but this was not my point.
High performance non-single-threaded servers often maintain a pool of
persistent processes or threads
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:22:44 +
Sad Clouds cryintotheblue...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:01:28 +
Quentin Garnier c...@cubidou.net wrote:
Do you have a real world use for that? For instance, I wouldn't call
a web server that sends the same data to all its clients
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:59:23 + (UTC)
chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
In article 70f62c5e1003091104l20b98c5ex66842f01e6f17...@mail.gmail.com,
Masao Uebayashi uebay...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, that sucks. Not being able to change permissions (and less
importantly,
mv or rm
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