Re: vm code

1999-06-12 Thread Brian Feldman
i386 > > Hope somebody can help me with this problem.. i haven't found anything > else that has done anything like that, but, I also would rather not ;) > > > -- > Jonathan Towne wrong...@slic.com > Systems Administ

Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Feldman
ce Thu May 20 21:05 (EDT) on ttypc from xanthine:0.0 >9 days 10 hours idle > On since Thu May 20 23:51 (EDT) on ttypd from xanthine:0.0 >18 days 20 hours idle > Last login Mon Jun 07 19:22 (EDT) on ttypf from zygorthian-space > New mail received Wed Ju

Re: GNU patch gone stale

1999-06-08 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:20:19PM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Our GNU patch has gone stale in the tree. Anyone want to upgrade it to 2.5? > > If not, I'll do it myself eventually. Patch 2.1 which we have now is broken >

GNU patch gone stale

1999-06-08 Thread Brian Feldman
Our GNU patch has gone stale in the tree. Anyone want to upgrade it to 2.5? If not, I'll do it myself eventually. Patch 2.1 which we have now is broken for certain diffs (recently tried with gimp 1.1.5-1.1.6 diffs), while 2.5 works fine. Brian Fe

Re: Mmap problem in -current?

1999-06-06 Thread Brian Feldman
ork? Sorry for being ambiguous. By 'it' I meant the test that you showed us. I cannot reproduce it. Have you tried remaking your locate database first? > > Thanks, > joelh > > -- > Joel Ray Holveck - jo...@gnu.org > Fourth law o

Re: Mmap problem in -current?

1999-06-05 Thread Brian Feldman
Jean-Marc Running on the very latest current, it does not work for me. > > -- > Jean-Marc ZucconiPGP Key: finger j...@freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-05 Thread Brian Feldman
O Siem / The fires of freedom > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ Fr

Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-05 Thread Brian Feldman
FWIW, I think only a fool would want a computer to NOT drop dead connections. Any "connection" that doesn't respond after 8 $^&! tries spaced FAR apart does NOT deserve to stay. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___

Re: No sound (Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370)

1999-05-25 Thread Brian Feldman
that you have _only_ tried using a single program to test your audio system out. > > Rgdz, > Sergey Osokin, > o...@etrust.ru > > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to

Re: MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

1999-05-21 Thread Brian Feldman
to the Internet, we know > this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University of California > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the messag

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Feldman
tial MTRR settings > by BIOS for memory detection (P6 and above, of course). Don't know how > reliable that is. And K6-family processors with newer BIOSes are usually write allocate-enabled and that can be used too. > > -lq > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebs

Re: ATA and afd (LS-120): got it WORKING!

1999-05-18 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Brian Feldman wrote: > > Yes, I finally got it working! The explanation is in the patch, which I > > should > > not need to explain again :) > > Hmm, Does it not work as is ?? It works on my LS120 drive, and a coubl

ATA and afd (LS-120): got it WORKING!

1999-05-17 Thread Brian Feldman
Yes, I finally got it working! The explanation is in the patch, which I should not need to explain again :) Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve

Re: UPDATE7: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-05-17 Thread Brian Feldman
ld be carefull that their machines dont suspend > as this might cause trouble... > > But please tell me how it works for you! > > Enjoy! > > -S?ren > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscr

Re: IDE strangeness

1999-05-17 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Brian Feldman wrote: > > I'm having two problems with IDE nowadays. > > > > 1. ATA doesn't work with LS-120. That's not new. But ATA does seem to crash > > on > >me, and there's

Re: New ATA driver still can't attach to ISA controllers

1999-05-15 Thread Brian Feldman
--+ > Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. > Johnson's Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on >anywhere within the organization. > > > > To Unsubscri

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-14 Thread Brian Feldman
> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to S

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Feldman
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 13 May 1999 at 16:02:48 -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > > That's funny, my system is pretty much the EXACT same as yours, and DMA > > does not > > get enabled for my Seagate 6.4GB UDMA2 drive. > > Did you set t

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Feldman
be: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) |

Re: DMA problems with IBM DeskStar drive

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Feldman
That's funny, my system is pretty much the EXACT same as yours, and DMA does not get enabled for my Seagate 6.4GB UDMA2 drive. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to

Re: 3DNow! support?

1999-05-10 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > Is anyone planning on upgrading the binutils gas to a later version so that > > we > > can get 3DNow! support? I'd like to use it, but I can't seem to get binutils >

3DNow! support?

1999-05-09 Thread Brian Feldman
Is anyone planning on upgrading the binutils gas to a later version so that we can get 3DNow! support? I'd like to use it, but I can't seem to get binutils to work right manually. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@un

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Brian Feldman
ther to look. MAME is a great piece of software, and in and of itself entirely legal; what problem do you have with it? > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > B

Re: IDE strangeness

1999-05-08 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 10:04:19PM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > 2. wd supports UDMA on my chipset, but won't enable any kind of DMA on my > >new Seagate, which does UDMA2 fine with ATA > > > > Can you

Re: IDE strangeness

1999-05-07 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 10:04:19PM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > 2. wd supports UDMA on my chipset, but won't enable any kind of DMA on my > >new Seagate, which does UDMA2 fine with ATA > > > > Can you

IDE strangeness

1999-05-06 Thread Brian Feldman
, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-32 wd3: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, iordy wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk) wdc1: interrupting at irq 15 Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___

Re: Silo overflows and MAME can someone else reproduce this problem ??

1999-05-03 Thread Brian Feldman
ich happen from time to time." > E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ _

Re: -stable vs -current (was Re: solid NFS patch #6... )

1999-04-30 Thread Brian Feldman
very least, I want to > sync *my* stuff up ( NFS/VM/VFS/BIO/VN/SWAPPER ). I wholeheartedly agree with this idea! > > -Matt > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message &g

Re: New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

1999-04-29 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Brian Feldman wrote: > > >Ever going to help with my atapi-fd problems? I found examples of the > >corruptions, including lots of NULLs... > > Well, so long as I cannot get my hands on the problem, its real hard >

Re: New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

1999-04-28 Thread Brian Feldman
; details I need to figure it out... > > -S?ren Ever going to help with my atapi-fd problems? I found examples of the corruptions, including lots of NULLs... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the bod

Re: New ATA hangs my machine

1999-04-24 Thread Brian Feldman
ith old drivers, and disklabel and fdisk output. > > Any clues? LBA? > > Andrzej Bialecki > > // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > // --- > // -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org

Re: does login.conf limitations work ?

1999-04-24 Thread Brian Feldman
nes in the kernel. Not having checked, but guessing, I bet login reads login.conf as a db and uses the values to set rlimits, which is where they would be set. > Stephane Legrand. > > -- > stephane.legr...@wanadoo.fr : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.legrand/ > FreeBSD Francophon

Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-23 Thread Brian Feldman
sd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Feldman
nal form I was given at birth :-) Hmm... is it cheating to use Hiragana? (^_^) > > > -- > > Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) > > d...@newsguy.com > > d...@freebsd.org > > > > "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works

Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Brian Feldman wrote: > >> Hmm, I have a ZIP here which works, and I have reports from mike that > >> his LS120 works too, so I'm a bit confused here. > >> How does it not work ?? > > > >I get con

Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Brian Feldman wrote: > > >This and atapi-fd not working are the only hang-ups I have with using ATA. > >Heck, the benefits even outweigh that since my new UDMA2 hard drive is only > >supported with your wonderful new

Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-22 Thread Brian Feldman
be killed off entirely, as > its the only one we have that support old ST506/ESDI drives. > > -S?ren > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman

Re: new kernel and IPDIVERT

1999-04-19 Thread Brian Feldman
Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _

Re: Parallel ZIP drive hangs machine

1999-04-18 Thread Brian Feldman
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Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-18 Thread Brian Feldman
ed eventually to the STABLE branch. > > And then what about newconfig? To me this just adds more truth to the > whole /. argument that *BSD promotes a closed development model. > > - alex > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscrib

Re: new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-17 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > > IPFW works for me...but I'm loading the KLD. > > > > I like having my ipfw rules there BEFORE anything happens, hence before > > rc(5). > > klds can be loaded by the loa

Re: new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-17 Thread Brian Feldman
n dmesg at all, but it does in the visual kernel > config thing. It's so old, I'm not surprised :) > > great work! > > Jake > -- > we are but packets in the internet of life > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord.

Re: new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-17 Thread Brian Feldman
Oh, btw, you did break sbxvi. Look carefully at the #if which surrounds it ;) Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org

Re: new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-17 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Brian Feldman wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Chris Piazza wrote: > > > > On 17-Apr-99 Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > > Both sound drivers are broken with the new-bus code. My SB16, in th

Re: new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-17 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Chris Piazza wrote: > > On 17-Apr-99 Brian Feldman wrote: > > > Both sound drivers are broken with the new-bus code. My SB16, in the old > > > driver, now gets recognized but sbxvi is never looked for. pcm0, the new > > >

new-bus breaks both sound drivers

1999-04-16 Thread Brian Feldman
? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 #device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 6 #device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 #device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-14 Thread Brian Feldman
: 3. Send patches. > > And I certainly don't care enough to do that!-) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-14 Thread Brian Feldman
> p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the me

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-14 Thread Brian Feldman
> > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-14 Thread Brian Feldman
kers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___

RE: swap-related problems

1999-04-14 Thread Brian Feldman
vercommit were configurable (on-off, > > or per process). > > > > /Marino > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > Alfre

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Sunday, 11th April 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > > >This has nothing to do with DOS. In case you didn't get my other hint: > >{"/home/green"}$ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 2>/dev/null | file - > >standard input

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __

Re: have live system with NFS client cache problems what do i do?

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
thew Dillon > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.or

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
we have to kill something to handle an out-of-vm situation, we > shouldn't go off and destabilize the rest of the system while we are at > it. > > -Matt > > I don't tend to use untrustworthy code for production things. I d

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
er_getswapspace: failed > :is displayed > : b. why the process continues and gets killed TWICE, or two different > : processes get killed > :? > : > : Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ > > The thing with the processes getting

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
"They've been eliminated, thank you for letting us know of problems you have!" It's called "being a sysadmin". If someone's abusing the machine, delete em. > > > Kevin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > wit

swap-related problems

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Feldman
TWICE, or two different processes get killed ? Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/_

Re: Libraries with library dependancies

1999-04-10 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, John Polstra wrote: > Brian Feldman wrote: > > > YES! Make the mdXXX symbols all weak, so libmd can be added manually! > > Peter already mentioned why that isn't necessary. I just want to add > a caution to folks out there. Don't go wild w

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-10 Thread Brian Feldman
in X was VERY slow. Mouse movements was slow down > too. > CPU states: 32.3% user, 0.0% nice, 67.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.5% idle > > Please, just try it. If you want to preempt other tasks, make that user's tasks niced!! > > > On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Brian Feldman

Re: Libraries with library dependancies

1999-04-10 Thread Brian Feldman
libraries. /stand meaning "standalone", hinting that only the root partition is necessary to run a shared program if necessary... let's move /usr/lib ELF libraries to /stand and keep all a.out and static libs (other than libgcc, foo) in /usr/lib. On the other hand, maybe that's a litt

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

1999-04-10 Thread Brian Feldman
e preempted easily. Look in top and see if they're all at the top of the list. I bet they're not! Also, you can set per-user niceness levels, and why are you being so liberal giving a standard LUSER 32 processes? This is a system administration problem. > > > To Unsub

Re: msdosfs problems?

1999-04-09 Thread Brian Feldman
> > Doug White > Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite| www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os

1999-04-09 Thread Brian Feldman
bscure semantics (would it do nothing if the rvalue > is not in the lvalue? What about if the rvalue is added later?). You say "creeping features", I say "something that would have made sense since the beginning". The semantics would be "ye

Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os

1999-04-09 Thread Brian Feldman
e code more readable, which is a plus. It would be obvious for people to look for such before resorting to substition rules. > > Bruce > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feld

make world breakage?!?

1999-04-08 Thread Brian Feldman
reported it. I can't figure out what's wrong with it :( I don't see how it could possibly be including sys/callout.h! *breaks down into sobbing and gibberish* Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \

Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os

1999-04-08 Thread Brian Feldman
at's not very well. Removing unwanted additions is hard. > > BTW, boot2/Makefile uses "CFLAGS=" to override any previous definition > of CFLAGS. This may break `make world' by removing -nostdinc. Why don't we have a -= operator in make(1

Re: RE: EGCS optimizations

1999-04-07 Thread Brian Feldman
..@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.fre

Re: panic: vm_page_bits: illegal base/size 4096/512

1999-04-06 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :This occurs when I'm copying from a floppy (MS-DOS) to my home dir which is > :on an FFS file system. Any ideas? Reproduced of course. > : > : Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ >

panic: vm_page_bits: illegal base/size 4096/512

1999-04-06 Thread Brian Feldman
This occurs when I'm copying from a floppy (MS-DOS) to my home dir which is on an FFS file system. Any ideas? Reproduced of course. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to

EGCS breaks what(1)

1999-04-05 Thread Brian Feldman
it appears "@(#)\0\0\0\0FreeBSD." in the binary. Of course, strings are null-terminated... :P I don't know why EGCS does this! Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!

Re: different systat -vmstat output when using egcs to compile kernel

1999-04-04 Thread Brian Feldman
0 0 7503 desiredvnodes > MB/s 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.42 0.00 0.00 1148 numvnodes > 428 freevnodes > > -- > Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas >

Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-04-01 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Joseph T. Lee wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Doc is a nice format, but it's not hypertext. Check out > > ports/palm/pilot_makedoc > > TealDoc's version supports graphics and links. Is it a published

Re: mount of write protected fd's

1999-03-31 Thread Brian Feldman
> write-enable it. Which, sometimes, requires use of duct tape... > > -mi Mount -u -o ro also works. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_

Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-03-29 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 nclay...@lehman.com wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:01:45AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > Word .doc support is in the pipeline as well, probably for the end of > > > this week too (I've now given some money to the evil empire so

Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-03-29 Thread Brian Feldman
or, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- > --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- > --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > w

Re: UPDATE4: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: >I tried this out just as soon as I saw the announcement! Your driver is > really coming along well. I have three basic problems with it: > > 1. A hard reset is necessary to get the CD-ROM drive to work with acd. > > w

Re: UPDATE4: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-03-28 Thread Brian Feldman
ecial files to mount as before, with ATA_STATIC being used, and noticed this. Better yet, I'll try this with a corrected fstab then report back. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \

Re: Spontaneous reboots

1999-03-25 Thread Brian Feldman
-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type > /dev/wd2s4b1606500 160522 0%Interleaved > > I'm not sure how recent, the machine had been up for nearly 22 days, and > I think I rebuilt the world soon before that, so it's as of around the > beginn

Re: Spontaneous reboots

1999-03-23 Thread Brian Feldman
(i.e>months) :) > > -Karl > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > He should proviide a full dmesg from bootverbose mode. One thing I'

Re: rfork()

1999-03-22 Thread Brian Feldman
ne extra argument" instead then :) I don't see why this is a bad thing. Full backward compatibility is maintained, and it would be easy to implement. > > -- > Richard Seaman, Jr. email: d...@tar.com > 5182 N. Maple Lanephone: 414-367-5450 > Chenequa

Re: rfork()

1999-03-22 Thread Brian Feldman
raditional int open(const char *, int, int) was changed to int open(const char *, int, ...) without any incompatibilities. > > Cheers, > -Peter > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe fr

Re: rfork()

1999-03-22 Thread Brian Feldman
only difference would be when one provides RFSTACK and extra arg stackaddr, which would simplify things for the coder greatly! This would allow the old method to still work, so what's the problem? If anything, it would save _human_ time. >

Re: Reporting AMD processors (was: CPUT_WT_ALLOC_DISABLE)

1999-03-21 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 22 March 1999 at 0:54:12 +0000, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Does anyone want a CPU_WT_ALLOC_DISABLE and CPU_WT_ALLOC_ENABLE as > > separate > > options? I see a couple changes that should be made to the kernel now: >

CPUT_WT_ALLOC_DISABLE

1999-03-21 Thread Brian Feldman
K6-[23]), and changing "class" to the more sensible "like" (i.e. a K6 really is 686-class, but being socket 7 is 586-like). Comments? Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___

Re: rfork()

1999-03-21 Thread Brian Feldman
ng the stack itself into the new stack that is located elsewhere in RAM and attached to the vm space? Actually, rfork() would just set it in the trap frame anyway, so there would be no extra user code to do this. > > -Matt >

Re: rfork()

1999-03-21 Thread Brian Feldman
c B returns since proc B is going to immediately switch over to a new stack? > > This is why, in my assembly example, I was forced to make the syscall > manually rather then call the rfork() library function. > > :> > : Brian Feldman

Re: rfork()

1999-03-21 Thread Brian Feldman
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Re: rfork()

1999-03-21 Thread Brian Feldman
enough > :> to dig up some code that used rfork to properly split the stack should > :> I try to dig it up? > :> > :> In the meantime, can someone commit this or suggest something? > : > :For the suggest something, you realize that with Richa

Re: rfork()

1999-03-20 Thread Brian Feldman
opagate the shared data and bss between children. The stack segment > -is always split. May be set only with > +is not split and must be allocated manually via an assembler subroutine. > +May be set only with > .Dv RFPROC . > .It RFSIGS

Re: fd broken [!!!]

1999-03-20 Thread Brian Feldman
Aye, and my LS-120 works great too :) So, que sera sera. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve

Re: fd broken [!!!]

1999-03-20 Thread Brian Feldman
It's been a couple more weeks, anyone now know why fd(4) is broken? It's really not a good thing :( Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.f

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-17 Thread Brian Feldman
> > In contrast, the kernel configuration route requires commenting > > or uncommenting a single statement. > > But that doesn't work, at least as the mount code behaves now. > > At any rate, any solution that makes it possible to boot with > a new driver without me

Re: Crash while newfs'ing innocent vinum volume on fresh system.

1999-03-17 Thread Brian Feldman
I don't know what frames 10-12 are supposed to be, but I can give you the short answer on why it crashed: you have INVARIANTS on (good!), so free()ing stuffs memory with 0xdeadc0de. Whatever frame 10 was doing tried to dereference previously freed memory. Brian Fe

Re: Simple DOS against 3.x locks box solid

1999-03-15 Thread Brian Feldman
ne is supposed to cause a trap... When it says "switch address space" What exactly do you think it's going to do? What I mean is, I'm pretty certain this is a good trap =) The real problem did seem to be the NULL p dereference, as it was obvious that it could happen in the c

Re: bmake/contrib framework for egcs

1999-03-12 Thread Brian Feldman
t; > gdb on the resulting core file isn't leading me anywhere. > If I use a little X-cut-n-paste and run the `cpp' command manually, it > works fine and I get the expected output from `cpp'. Hmm environment variables? > > > To

Re: panic: zone: entry not free

1999-03-10 Thread Brian Feldman
Dance in the burning flame > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of t

Re: fd broken [!!!]

1999-03-09 Thread Brian Feldman
eebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ | _ \_

Re: UPDATE3: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-03-07 Thread Brian Feldman
-S?ren > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __

fd broken

1999-03-06 Thread Brian Feldman
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > It seems that actually, not through my own fault, the fd driver is broken. I > noticed this weeks ago but thought it a fluke since I only had the problem on > one computer. However, on the school FreeBSD box, I also notice the same > p

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