Re: kern/182139: lock order reversal

2013-09-16 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
i don't get that message using linux. however i had to solve a bad IDE drive problem once caused by microsoft software the IDE company installed on it. what is your question? #1) wrong lock order is very serious: it's the whole damn disk hw and driver is built for that: if that fails you hav

dep-trace v. tsort (mac ports depends support)

2012-03-02 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Hi, BSD and Apple needs tsort(1) for portage still I believe. Topological sorting isn't quite right packaging. Please see: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dep-trace It is a "drop-in" replacement (operates like a /bin/tsort) but is right for pkg depends (ie, for portage: you need to dl sourc

Re: bin/166842: bsdgrep(1) inconsistently handles ^ in non-anchoring positions

2012-04-12 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Your problem is incorrect so there is no sol'n. printf 'abc def' | grep -o '^[a-z]' is only supposed to match against abc. see grep(1) about pattern matching - there is plenty of online writeups, esp posix ieee std. see also "ant / antlr" for more about patterns and matching. Jim Pr

Re: kern/166866: [build] [cy] cy(4) driver breaks kernel build in 8.3

2012-04-13 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
a "revision" that breaks not only software but hardware... is CERTAINLY not a subrevision (ie, 8.3) but a major revision (ie, 9.x) I've used "advanced TTY" and myself see 0 no null ZERO improvement. I'd rather have the drivers fixed before they implement. You know some drivers not compiling a

Re: kern/166866: [build] [cy] cy(4) driver breaks kernel build in 8.3

2012-04-13 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
excuse my manners. thank you very much for the report. Eugene wrote: The following reply was made to PR kern/166866; it has been noted by GNATS. ___ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsub

Re: misc/167222: FreeBSD 8.3 corrupting MBR partition table after installation

2012-04-23 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
maybe. it's also possible what changed is your disk geometry. Answer is probably: you have the old partition data so just re-enter it (apparently your just emulating and i'm unsure your emulator simulates drive detection or has the same mbr) (also, make sure you don't have "easy drive" in your

Re: kern/187912: Getting Stack Traces of Xorg with DTrace Causes Hang

2014-03-25 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
The following reply was made to PR kern/187912; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" To: Nick Zivkovic Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/187912: Getting Stack Traces of Xorg with DTrace Causes Hang Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:4

Re: ports/188190: mail/mutt 1.5.23 needs to support POP, IMAP, SMTP over SSL

2014-04-10 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
lini...@freebsd.org wrote: Old Synopsis: Mutt 1.5.23 needs to support POP, IMAP, SMTP over SSL New Synopsis: mail/mutt 1.5.23 needs to support POP, IMAP, SMTP over SSL Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-ports-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: linimon Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Apr

Re: [Bug 191086] New: grep and bsdgrep do not recognize [[:<:]] and [[:>:]]

2014-06-22 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
bz-nore...@freebsd.org wrote: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191086 Bug ID: 191086 Summary: grep and bsdgrep do not recognize [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] Product: Base System Version: 9.2-RELEASE Hardware: Any OS:

Re: [Bug 133286] dd can fill system memory

2014-08-05 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org wrote: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133286 yaneurab...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

who controls freebsd now?

2014-09-22 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
i know dumb question to throw out is it the people listed? how'd they get in control? is it all on up and up? or are some suspicious? i hope some day to use it but the water looks cold ... in debian the KEY HOLDERS (maintainers) control it and there is some heat on whether they have who's

Re: [Bug 194477] 10.1-RC1 tar(1) spurious directory permission error message

2014-10-27 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org wrote: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194477 --- Comment #1 from John Marshall --- Confirmed independently on -stable@ https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-October/080685.html The scenario of traversal-only access to the paren

Re: bin/172862: sed improperly deals with escape chars

2012-10-20 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
The following reply was made to PR bin/172862; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" To: Garrett Cooper Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/172862: sed improperly deals with escape chars Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:37:25 -0400