Re: RLIMIT_FSIZE and SIGXFSZ

2013-11-17 Thread Mouse
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Re: [patch] safety of Lua byte code

2013-11-17 Thread Mouse
for execution by a suitably authorized person. Therefore, information beyond the code itself is necessary to determine malice. Note, too, that there is nothing Lua-specific in the above argument. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: posix_fallocate

2013-11-17 Thread Mouse
record-keeping data space, and the code to do it). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: RLIMIT_FSIZE and SIGXFSZ

2013-11-16 Thread Mouse
not be a problem. The more consistently the limits work, the better off we are in the long run. I've got the change implemented and the result builds. I'll be experimenting to see whether it really does have the effect I want and will report back here. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: posix_fallocate

2013-11-16 Thread Mouse
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RLIMIT_FSIZE and SIGXFSZ

2013-11-15 Thread Mouse
the new behaviour (and, of course, similar changes in the other places SIGXFSZ is generated). Comments or other thoughts? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1

Re: panic: bad dir: mangled entry, fsck: missing dot/dotdot

2013-11-11 Thread Mouse
Sorry for replying to the list, but Mouse refuses to accept mails from .de domains. Yeah, I should train myself to stop responding to list mail from .de addresses, or at least use something like my netbsd.org address, until and unless .de...no *smack* bad Mouse! No ranting onlist! If you

Re: zero-length symlinks

2013-11-03 Thread Mouse
; if a directory can have multiple parents, walking parents until you get to the root becomes a much less obviously possible thing to do. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39

Re: pulse-per-second API status

2013-11-01 Thread Mouse
in thinking that? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: zero-length symlinks

2013-11-01 Thread Mouse
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Re: pulse-per-second API status

2013-11-01 Thread Mouse
like any other PPS support until you test the resulting time carefully. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: pulse-per-second API status

2013-11-01 Thread Mouse
is unavoidable without special-purpose hardware, simply because of interrupt latency. I'm worried that USB will make that a lot worse, and most people will not be competent to expect that. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: pulse-per-second API status

2013-11-01 Thread Mouse
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Re: pulse-per-second API status

2013-11-01 Thread Mouse
? Heavens! Didn't you know that's not the NetBSD way? Seriously, this - or something of the sort - actually makes a lot of sense to me as a resolution, here. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: How to hot swap an SCA SCSI disk with NetBSD

2013-10-27 Thread Mouse
. Either that or I'd use bidirectional buffer logic, so there is nothing like a direct electrical connection between the SCA pins and the SCSI bus. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61

Re: How to hot swap an SCA SCSI disk with NetBSD

2013-10-25 Thread Mouse
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Re: How to hot swap an SCA SCSI disk with NetBSD

2013-10-24 Thread Mouse
is basically the same all the way from 1.4T through 5.x, so it seems to me it's _probably_ the same post-5.x. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: panic: bad dir: mangled entry, fsck: missing dot/dotdot

2013-10-20 Thread Mouse
? There certainly shouldn't be. (Well, assuming you mean dump/newfs/restore, not dump/rm -rf */restore.) But, of course, depending on what made things weird to begin with, it could potentially happen again, which amounts to much the same thing in practice. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: panic: bad dir: mangled entry, fsck: missing dot/dotdot

2013-10-19 Thread Mouse
to catch just such things.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: panic: bad dir: mangled entry, fsck: missing dot/dotdot

2013-10-19 Thread Mouse
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Re: panic: bad dir: mangled entry, fsck: missing dot/dotdot

2013-10-19 Thread Mouse
already, that you don't have two partitions overlapping. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: panic: bad dir: mangled entry, fsck: missing dot/dotdot

2013-10-19 Thread Mouse
or larger blocks, those two inodes fall into the same block; otherwise, not. If they do, it might be interesting to look at the rest of that block, in case its contents look recognizable. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: Moving Lua source codes

2013-10-18 Thread Mouse
[...] If all of this is true, maybe [EdgeBSD i]s a more suitable place for your stuff now? Possibly. They're welcome to my changes if they want them too. I'll send a ping thataway. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: Moving Lua source codes

2013-10-17 Thread Mouse
? WSEMUL_MTERM? tun(4)-for-IPv6? v6-capable SLIP? netstat -T? touch -d and -i? In short... NetBSD-current the main development branch for things that we know we want, and that we are prepared to support for a long time, and that mostly work. ...that. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: Moving Lua source codes

2013-10-17 Thread Mouse
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Re: Getting the device name from a struct tty *

2013-10-15 Thread Mouse
like ucom0, not ttyU0. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Moving Lua source codes

2013-10-14 Thread Mouse
, that anyone has to agree with me, or care what I think /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: NGROUPS/NGROUPS_MAX

2013-10-09 Thread Mouse
assuming you don't mind being slightly incompatible with the rest of the world. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: processor abstraction

2013-10-09 Thread Mouse
not. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: high load, no bottleneck

2013-09-30 Thread Mouse
I'd expect: write--flush dependency _is_ a DAG, with barriers being chokepoints (I forget the graph-theory term for them) in the DAG. Mouse

Re: high load, no bottleneck

2013-09-27 Thread Mouse
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Re: fixing the vnode lifecycle

2013-09-26 Thread Mouse
that got to do with filehandles? Is st_ino now generated from a filehandle somehow rather than being the filesystem's responsibility? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7

Re: fixing the vnode lifecycle

2013-09-25 Thread Mouse
required for all filesystems? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: high load, no bottleneck

2013-09-18 Thread Mouse
something? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Notification of RAIDframe failures

2013-09-08 Thread Mouse
for 4.0.1's raidctl -s output. They may need fixing if yours looks different. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B #! /bin/sh # Public domain

Re: Max. number of subdirectories dump

2013-08-18 Thread Mouse
-size directory entries.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Max. number of subdirectories dump

2013-08-18 Thread Mouse
VOP_READDIR(), etc. Perhaps, but the type _is_ stored on the disk in recent implementations. See src/sys/ufs/ufs/dir.h in 5.2, for example. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52

Re: Sending ATA commands?

2013-08-12 Thread Mouse
than I do could probably do a better job. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Sending ATA commands?

2013-08-11 Thread Mouse
bothered. (It's not something to do casually. According to the doc, the device shall not accept an attempt to change the hard limit if a previous change to the hard limit has been made since the last power-on reset.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: Sending ATA commands?

2013-08-11 Thread Mouse
anything useful with it; at a stab-in-the-dark guess, I'd guess that it would depend heavily on the particular BIOS in question - which at that point I'm no longer sure deserves the B part of the name. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: Sending ATA commands?

2013-08-11 Thread Mouse
Protected Area...and this thing, whether an ld instance or something else, is not a normal disk drive; for example, it usually will not be partitioned further.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: Sending ATA commands?

2013-08-10 Thread Mouse
-checked-out working tree), and the patience to wait for git to fetch it, you can get it by cloning git://git.rodents-montreal.org/Mouse/netbsd-fork/4.0.1/src. Here are the one-line summaries. Except for 53fe079, the commit messages are only one line long; 53fe079's explains how the interface

Sending ATA commands?

2013-08-09 Thread Mouse
a little greater than the IDENTIFY-reported capacity. So I assume I'm doing something wrong, and the obvious question is, what? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E

Re: Another MII PHY fix.

2013-06-09 Thread Mouse
it, it will stay stuck at zero. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: [Milkymist-devel] [Milkymist port] virtual memory management

2013-06-05 Thread Mouse
. I'm sure there are lots of other possible designs. It may be better to do it with special-purpose opcodes (eg the SPARC's ld*a and st*a instructions), but it is by no means necessary. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

NFS vs jumbograms?

2013-06-03 Thread Mouse
try experiments, if anyone has anything to suggest. I also still have the pcap capture files, in case they might contain anything of value. For now, I'm just using MTU 1500. Any thoughts? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: NFS vs jumbograms?

2013-06-03 Thread Mouse
things. That's why I snooped on both hosts. If you haven't yet, try using tcp mounts as that tends to avoid exercising some of those cases. I've been wondering how TCP mounts would compare. Perhaps I'll try them some one of these days. Mouse

Re: NFS vs jumbograms?

2013-06-03 Thread Mouse
is straight or crossover. (I also don't know whether that's relevant; I don't know enough about how gigabit auto-x negotation works.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D

4.0.1 i386 wedged

2013-05-21 Thread der Mouse
the stack trace is that it's trying to page something out and finds itself wanting to page something in to do so. Is this a case of don't do that, then, or should this work and I just need to track down a bug? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: 4.0.1 i386 wedged

2013-05-21 Thread der Mouse
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Re: proposal: some pointer and arithmetic utilities

2013-03-26 Thread Mouse
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Re: proposal: some pointer and arithmetic utilities

2013-03-24 Thread Mouse
it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: proposal: some pointer and arithmetic utilities

2013-03-21 Thread Mouse
carefully compare prototypes, is a good thing. Not, of course, that it's the only such offender. Consider enodev() and its relatives (unless of course that botch has been eliminated in modern versions, though this suggestion makes me suspect not). /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: adapter resource shortage?

2013-03-06 Thread Mouse
- in the presence of a flood of writes. Thank you, people, for pointing me in such helpful directions! /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: What's an MPSAFE driver need to do?

2013-02-28 Thread Mouse
man page, ideally referring to the memory barrier specs. I agree. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: What's an MPSAFE driver need to do?

2013-02-28 Thread Mouse
is really satisfactory. Of course, userland is not immune to the undocumented-interface problem either. But I haven't seen it nearly as much there. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61

iscsi?

2013-02-27 Thread Mouse
to use storage exported via iSCSI. Did I miss something, or is the support just not there? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: iscsi?

2013-02-27 Thread Mouse
. Am I missing something? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

What's an MPSAFE driver need to do?

2013-02-27 Thread Mouse
, though the latter I may be able to figure out (mostly meaning, if I can find and identify the relevant kernel code). Did I miss something, or is this just not documented? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: POSIX Semaphores

2013-02-24 Thread Mouse
Like mouse@ I am unaware of what makes ksem mandatory, [...] Whatever is 'mandatory'. Well, it was said to be...as jnemeth put it, it was made unconditional on the basis that it is essential. But if you use programs that require POSIX shared memory, you should also offer POSIX semaphores

Re: POSIX Semaphores

2013-02-24 Thread Mouse
of users need it or a large majority of systems need it are justification for this; examples of optional things which I think should remain optional despite being very popular are options INET and pseudo-device pty. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: POSIX Semaphores

2013-02-23 Thread Mouse
[...] P1003_1B_SEMAPHORE [...] The feature was condiational in the past, but made unconditional on the basis that it is essential. This leads me to ask, what is it essential to? I'm moderately sure I've never used POSIX semaphores for anything. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Locking confusion

2013-02-19 Thread Mouse
PRU_DETACH handler calls, doesn't do this as far as I can see. So I clearly am missing something. But what? What locking do I need here, beyond of course the locking my AF code needs internally? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

iscsi initiator?

2012-12-18 Thread Mouse
, or is the Wikipedia page wrong, or what? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: KNF and the C preprocessor

2012-12-11 Thread Mouse
be interested. An assembler comment - from something like: asm volatile(; STR(__LINE__)) How is that any more effective in a macro than in an inline function? What am I missing here? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: KNF and the C preprocessor

2012-12-11 Thread Mouse
char *, int, const char *); I see a #define lurking ! Exactly. It's a #define that I don't think can be got rid of by using a function, even an inline function, instead. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org

Re: KNF and the C preprocessor

2012-12-10 Thread Mouse
both -- which it won't, if you use macros... Huh? Okay, what's the static inline version of log() here? #define log(msg) log_(__FILE__,__LINE__,(msg)) extern void log_(const char *, int, const char *); /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: KNF and the C preprocessor

2012-12-10 Thread Mouse
is better. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: KNF and the C preprocessor

2012-12-10 Thread Mouse
that haven't been true since the days of the m68k, and the existence and use of machines of that ilk is why. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3

Re: KNF and the C preprocessor

2012-12-10 Thread Mouse
= new_thing1(); if (...failure...) bail(can't do it: %d %d (from %s),...); ... } (Okay, that's not quite true. Using always_inline doesn't necessarily mean committing to gcc. But _depending on_ always_inline does, ISTM.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against

Re: fixing compat_12 getdents

2012-12-10 Thread Mouse
the how to sanely write error handling routines issue is spurious. Such code always has, de-facto if not intended, some kind of catchall behaviour. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D

Re: core statement on fexecve, O_EXEC, and O_SEARCH

2012-12-05 Thread Mouse
of read/write, not time of open. kill(2) checks UIDs at time of calling kill(), not time of your getting the PID of the target. To name just three examples. Indeed, I think file descriptors are the odd ones out here, not the other way around. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon

Re: core statement on fexecve, O_EXEC, and O_SEARCH

2012-12-05 Thread Mouse
whatever NetBSD eventually decides on. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Broadcast traffic on vlans leaks into the parent interface on NetBSD-5.1

2012-12-02 Thread Mouse
- of those points is impossible, nor that there are no other right answers. However, since we've already got an implementation of (i), the costs are heavily skewed in favour of retaining the status quo. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: Problem identified: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-12-01 Thread Mouse
and should be treated as such, which in NetBSD's case I would say means a quirk entry, documented as being a workaround for broken hardware, for it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8

Re: Problem identified: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-12-01 Thread Mouse
authors? filesystem authors? midlayer (eg scsipi) authors?) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Problem identified: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-12-01 Thread Mouse
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Re: Problem identified: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-11-29 Thread Mouse
their sector size. (Yes, I consider it broken for a disk to lie about its sector size.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Broadcast traffic on vlans leaks into the parent interface on NetBSD-5.1

2012-11-29 Thread Mouse
important. ...in general, I agree, but in the case of DHCP, I'm not so sure. It needs to send and receive packets to and from unusual IPs (0.0.0.0, I think it is), if nothing else. Mouse

Re: Problem identified: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-11-28 Thread Mouse
files with little churn.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Problem identified: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-11-28 Thread Mouse
a stripe size that's a multiple of three. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: fexecve, round 3

2012-11-25 Thread Mouse
to _require_ that the implementation error out if O_EXEC is combined with one of the other three. (I would expect that to just be an application error, which an implementation may choose to assign meaning to.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: 5.1 vs gdb

2012-11-20 Thread Mouse
help such a person. I have them in the form of commits in a git repo. I can, of course, generate diffs as desired; also, anyone who cares to (and has some 1.2gig to hold the result) is welcome to git clone git://git.rodents-montreal.org/Mouse/netbsd-fork/5.1/src and look at commits d9c27c0

Re: [PATCH] fexecve

2012-11-19 Thread Mouse
these are good things to be able to do is open to debate, of course.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: [PATCH] fexecve

2012-11-16 Thread Mouse
for. (If, as is probably the case in many such uses, that user is root, I have trouble seeing _any_ issue here - anyone who can overwrite root-owned files pretty much pwnz0rz the system already.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org

Re: [PATCH] fexecve

2012-11-15 Thread Mouse
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Re: [PATCH] fexecve

2012-11-15 Thread Mouse
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Re: [PATCH] fexecve

2012-11-15 Thread Mouse
the chrooted process either way. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: [PATCH] fexecve

2012-11-15 Thread Mouse
the slightest bit of difference to them what fexecve() does? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: [PATCH] POSIX extended API set 2

2012-11-11 Thread Mouse
- it supports? I think treating the versions with a misleading f as standards compatability goop is the right way to go here. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E

Re: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-11-10 Thread Mouse
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Re: cprng sysctl: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying.

2012-11-09 Thread Mouse
. :) Mouse

Re: WAPL panic

2012-11-07 Thread Mouse
and deletes but lots of I/O to the big files). So far I've had no problems. But I also haven't been using WAPBL or even softdep, nor 6.x. I don't know if that helps localize the problem any /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: suenv

2012-10-23 Thread Mouse
If those two modules have bugs, the bugs should be fixed. [...] Is it a bug to use pthreads? In the case of security-critical software, yes, I believe it is. In case it's not clear, I'm with Thor et al on this one. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X

Re: suenv

2012-10-23 Thread Mouse
must run as root. To pick another, the class of machines on which apache is unnecessary is much, much larger than the class of machines on which login and su (and, more generally, programs which by default are built with PAM) are unnecessary. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

5.1 vs gdb

2012-10-14 Thread Mouse
show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386--netbsdelf... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/mouse/gdbtest at which point nothing I've tried will wake it up, except for SIGKILLing gdb from another

5.1 video(4) mmap interface?

2012-10-11 Thread Mouse
. The program I'm using is up for ftp from ftp.rodents-montreal.org in /mouse/misc/video-mmap.c. It's not long, 107 lines. The underlying hardware in my case is i386 with a uvideo: uvideo0 at uhub3 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0: Vimicro Corp. Venus USB2.0 Camera, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2

Re: 5.1 video(4) mmap interface?

2012-10-11 Thread Mouse
with a stupid mistake that could have been corrected with a careful reading of the manpage and the code. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27

Re: compat_linux and AIO

2012-10-05 Thread Mouse
) did I/O async, with sync calls just starting the operation async and immediately blocking until it finishes. Indeed, the very name of the operation (QIO) meant queue I/O. (This was fairly old VMS by now; I don't know how close it is to modern VMS.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: [RFC][PATCH] _UC_TLSBASE for all ports

2012-08-11 Thread Mouse
on different assumptions and thus talking past one another. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

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