Re: Live!

1999-01-03 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Tomer Weller wrote: > I'm a Sound Blaster Live! user and will be glad to be an Alpha tester for a driver >if someone or some group is working on porting the driver from Linux, since it is now >opensource. > Greetings, Tomer. > Maybe let people know at http://www.

Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support

1999-01-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > Jason tells me you have my card which exhibited exactly this symptom with > a pc164 two years ago, though it worked in an x86 box. > Isn't that the the one now without a BIOS? That's the old 1020 PCI card, which Qlogic made maybe < 500? It's the only one I have. Did you want it back? -matt

Live!

1999-01-03 Thread Tomer Weller
I'm a Sound Blaster Live! user and will be glad to be an Alpha tester for a driver if someone or some group is working on porting the driver from Linux, since it is now opensource.         Greetings, Tomer.

Re: aio Functions

1999-01-03 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Christopher Sedore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...snip info on aio stuff...] > > > > I hope to try 1000 descriptors soon. > > That's great news! So have you gotten rid of some of these absurdly > low fixed limits? >

Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-01-03 Thread Peter Wemm
Mike Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Sysctl is faster than kstat once you have performed the name->oid > > > lookup. There is basically nothing that kstat can do that sysctl can't > > > do better and faster, apart from lookup-by-name. > > > > Except for dynamic reg

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-01-03 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 12:09:18 +0100, Jos Backus wrote: > I'm in the anti-bloat camp, and I agree with this sentiment. What would be more interesting, I think, is investigating the use of locking by default. One wonders what it'd break, and how we'd work around it. ;-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsu

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-01-03 Thread Jos Backus
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 12:58:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Then it's your _script_ that should do careful locking to avoid tripping > up over itself, surely? :-) Yeah, in fact it does, it uses lockf ;-p > Let me take a step back. I'm not saying that what you're doing to ftpd > is wrong.

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-01-03 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:39:29 +0100, Jos Backus wrote: > Scanning the directory for new files, as the aforementioned script does. If > you have more than one script doing this at the same time, both may conclude > that a given file is ``available'' and try to act upon it. Then it's your _script

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-01-03 Thread Jos Backus
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 12:18:21PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Then use fstat. :-) OK, OK :) > I think you've developed a complex solution to a more simply solved > problem. UNIX offers you lots of little tools for good reason. Adding > functionality to ftpd that is available through other t

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-01-03 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:15:18 +0100, Jos Backus wrote: > > So fstat(1) doesn't show you that the file is opened to ftpd? > > No, it does indeed show that. Then use fstat. :-) > It seems a more natural solution to me than grepping for ftpd in fstat's > output regarding the file. I think you'v

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-01-03 Thread Jos Backus
> So fstat(1) doesn't show you that the file is opened to ftpd? No, it does indeed show that. > You really have to lock the files to help you with this problem? It seems a more natural solution to me than grepping for ftpd in fstat's output regarding the file. Also, I think that approach introd

Re: ftpd feature: lock file being stored

1999-01-03 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 23:05:30 +0100, Jos Backus wrote: > This patch adds a ``-x'' flag to ftpd, which instructs ftpd to obtain > an exclusive lock on files it commits to disk as a result of a store > operation. This way it becomes easy to tell whether a download has > finished, in case the file

Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-01-03 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Sysctl is faster than kstat once you have performed the name->oid > > lookup. There is basically nothing that kstat can do that sysctl can't > > do better and faster, apart from lookup-by-name. > > Except for dynamic registration right? No, Peter fi