Re: randomness (crypto?) code example wanted please?

2017-06-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
invent a new category for it just to keep it separate from both Ksh (and clones) and other Ash derivatives that don't grow a $RANDOM. -- Greg A. Woods Planix, Inc. <wo...@planix.com>

Re: NetBSD on embedded devices

2017-06-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
ename 4536955 13034660 430196 18001811112af93 netbsd-NET5501.EMBED 03:18 [98] $ ls -l netbsd-NET5501.EMBED -rwxr-xr-x 1 woods wheel 18268428 Jun 5 2016 netbsd-NET5501.EMBED -- Greg A. Woods

failure when building a static-linked emacs25 (-nox11 on amd64)

2018-02-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
007f7ff2c9 in ?? () #19 0x7f7ff2dc in ?? () #20 0x in ?? () (gdb) That seems even more mysterious to me, though perhaps there's a good explanation somehow. (E.g. don't malloc() in a dumped binary because that's already been done? Or maybe the dumped heap is inconsisten

Re: failure when building a static-linked emacs25 (-nox11 on amd64)

2018-02-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
ot;site:gnats.netbsd.org emacs" nor "site:mail-index.netbsd.org emacs crash" can find it. Google's spider should have found the PR and all the related mail long before now. -- Greg A. Woods <gwo...@acm.org> +1 250 762-7675

Re: merging /usr/bin etc. to / (was: Solving the syslogd problem)

2020-02-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
as opposed to a traditional network filesystem like NFS). E.g. for shared mounts of /dev/xbd?? devices in Xen, or shared mounts of a single FibreChannel or iSCSI target. Can we even invent a new kind of shareable filesystem using, e.g., lockless on-disk data structures for writeable mounts? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpdoZp0PlAPV.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc()

2020-07-15 Thread Greg A. Woods
g on what the internal malloc() uses to obtain heap space). -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpF7qd4gS1wJ.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

2020-07-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
t should die) -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpKDOKszsCHU.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc()

2020-07-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:28:46 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Subject: Re: recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc() > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 03:05:17PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > I think it is the foll

recent changes to pthread_fork.c:fork() cause static linking to fail if the app provides its own malloc()

2020-07-13 Thread Greg A. Woods
/mapmalloc.c:303: first defined here Should I send-pr this? Is there any possibility of an "easy" fix? -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpmvZnfd3OSF.pgp Description: OpenP

Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

2020-07-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
), but in my opinion C is just not really safe without them. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgp07ateykbKh.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

odd ATF failure for sh: ulimit_redirection_interaction failed

2021-03-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
: 1615494985.880185, ulimit_redirection_interaction, failed, atf-check failed; see the output of the test for details -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms pgpHS6iRKvrfz.pgp Description

Re: odd ATF failure for sh: ulimit_redirection_interaction failed

2021-03-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
y stymied by another problem (I can't access the domU filesystem from the dom0, and until I can get a complete rebuild to finish so I can do a full reinstall of the domU, accessing the FS from the dom0 would be the only easy way I have of injecting changes to the test system since it has no networkin

Re: odd ATF failure for sh: ulimit_redirection_interaction failed

2021-03-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
the ulimit for open FDs is not kept lower than the number of currently open FDs); though I have not done any other kind of test to be sure the data sent to a multi-digit FD is actually received from the given FD. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675

Re: Possible "new" redirect style for /bin/sh (needs a name)

2021-04-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
to it (and also use as a sub-section heading for the man page, > and a test case name for (yet to be written) ATF tests of this) The only thing that immediately jumped into my mind was "dynamic redirection". Maybe Steve Bourne could suggest a name? (seriously) --

Re: Possible "new" redirect style for /bin/sh (needs a name)

2021-04-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:05:57 +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: Subject: Re: Possible "new" redirect style for /bin/sh (needs a name) > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 05:04:11PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > So, still, the shell could keep a "high FD waterm