Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

sted, if the correct root device can't be found, the boot _should_ offer you a choice of running off others that appear to be bootable. Also, I certainly can see instances where someone would want to have it take an alternate partition to run off of - it could be an alternate boot behavior prog

Re: mount: /dev/ad0s1e: File name too long

ly have to. Long >names even mess up the most common uses of the preserved names -- >displaying them in df, mount, etc. And what if you have to use them (or want to)? If df/mount/etc have bugs, let's fix those (not that I think they're significant). -- Randell Jesup,

Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent

tch to catch any ata problems. U... It seems to me from reading the man page for asleep/await that they have significant utility, and that the real issue would be one of code not using them, especially as people work to remove the Giant lock for SMP. Or is the discussion

Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld

B, %, and * (everything not spoken for elsewhere) for sizes (and * for offsets to allow disklabel to calculate them for you), etc are in Warner's hands. (I got annoyed at it one evening...) Now, if Warner would commit them :-) (Matt has looked at the patch also.) They also have impro

Re: Please review sh SIGSTOP fix

functionality, and is it important to people? Perhaps I'm totally wrong here and misunderstood the issue. -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: disklabel.c & disklabel.8 patch

itions in Emacs probably conflict with "standard" BSD style. I'll rework the style (I'm the author of the patch). Any other problems while I'm at it? -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: OpenSSL ASM patch

ariant kernels for them all. I'm sure other people running large numbers of servers accumulated over time have a similar problem (Yahoo?) So I'd add one vote for making to easy (or at least not hard) to include multiple architecture optimizations in one kernel/userland release, ala Solar