Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_fbsd Makefile

2000-01-12 Thread Jason Evans
[CCed to -hackers since this may be of general interest.] On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:21:41PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > I'm still a little puzzled why every call to open got changed to > _libc_open rather than do the magic w/in open(). Consider as an example that open() is a thread cancellati

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Christopher R. Bowman
At 03:01 AM 1/13/00 +0100, you wrote: >Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > The last two paragraphs are the most relevant to us. > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-encryption.html > >Hmm. These paragraphs don't sound that nice: >

4 port intel card source?

2000-01-12 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Intel used to have a 4 port 100mbit card in the PRO line. I have lots of the duals and they work fine with FreeBSD, but need the 4 porter for a 1U case... Anybody know of a supplier or can sell me one? It would be much appreciated... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > But then, at the end: > >People posting ``open source'' programs would be required >to send the code, or a Web site address where the code was >displayed, to the government. > > Basically, does this mean something like > tar cf - /usr/src/

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Joe Abley
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:01:01AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: >People posting ``open source'' programs would be required >to send the code, or a Web site address where the code was >displayed, to the government. > > Basically, does this mean something like > tar cf - /usr/src/crypto

Re: useful addition to mergemaster (patch included)?

2000-01-12 Thread John and Jennifer Reynolds
[ On Wednesday, January 12, Brian Somers wrote: ] > > Wouldn't a more generic always-do-X-to-this-file be better - perhaps > maintained in a config file - say /etc/mergemaster.conf: > > Delete etc/mail/sendmail.cf > Delete etc/motd > Install etc/defaults/* > Indeed that would be a better way

RE: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 13-Jan-00 Matthew Dillon wrote: > The last two paragraphs are the most relevant to us. > http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-encryption.html So does this mean we OpenSSH in the base system some time soon? :) (Post RSA patent expiry?) --- Daniel O'Connor software and ne

Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > The last two paragraphs are the most relevant to us. > > http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-encryption.html Hmm. These paragraphs don't sound that nice: [...] complex restrictions still affect p

Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source

2000-01-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
The last two paragraphs are the most relevant to us. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-encryption.html -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Michael Lucas
[various offers to take my place deleted] Geez, you people are a lot of help. ;^) So, I have just as much chance of getting it worked out if I just go into netinet as anywhere? Will do. Thanks, ==ml > * Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000112 14:35] wrote: > > I find myself in a contract w

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000112 14:35] wrote: > I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait > for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up > with the tedium. > > So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the > log

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Michael Bacarella
> I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait > for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up > with the tedium. Wow, how does one come across such a contract? -MB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

RE: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Alton, Matthew
Get a copy of the 4.4BSD book and read the relevant code along with the various topics. "Of course you're the Messiah! I say you are and I should know, I've followed a few!" -- John Cleese in "Life of Brian" Matthew Alton Computer Services - UNIX Systems Administration (314)632-6644 [EMAIL

Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Michael Lucas
I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up with the tedium. So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the logical place to start? Or should I start elsehwere? Or is there no log

Re: useful addition to mergemaster (patch included)?

2000-01-12 Thread Brian Somers
> > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:21:32 MST, John and Jennifer Reynolds wrote: > > > So, I made a quick hack to mergemaster so it would recognize a new > > "rc" variable called IGNORE_FILE. This file is a list of files > > mergemaster should ignore, or not compare. One filename per line. > > I've b

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic)

2000-01-12 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marcin Cieslak writes: : Once can easily read them with low-level pccardc interface. : In general, flash cards are not meant to be written too often, : so I belive we won't put a real filesystem on them. : Just a kernel and mfsroot image perhaps? Well, there is mfs

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-12 Thread Luoqi Chen
> > Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > :BTW, concerning rfork(RFMEM). Could somebody explain me, why the > > > :following simple program is coredumping: > > > You cannot call rfork() with RFMEM directly from a C program. You > > > have to use assembly (has anyone created a na

XPostitPlus-2.3 patch file

2000-01-12 Thread David Quattlebaum
Below is a patch file that adds functionality to XPostitPlus-2.3 that I find useful. The patch file adds the following new things. 1) Adds a new "Hide All Notes" menu selection. Files changed are xpostit.h, menu.c, note.c 2) Makes the "Find a Note" window bigger, but not too large. File c

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels (flash cards off topic)

2000-01-12 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > The linear flash cards don't have an ata interface, > so PAO and soon -current won't recognize them. They don't have and we don't need it. Once can easily read them with low-level pccardc interface. In general, flash cards are not meant to be written too

Status of NSS/LDAP

2000-01-12 Thread Bjoern Fischer
Good morning, I plan to experiment with LDAP, especially using it for distributing the userdb. On the lists I found that some approaches were already discussed. The two major candidates were NSS and userfs, while for the NSS solution someone already posted some initial code (porting NSS fom NetB

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-12 Thread Scott Hess
Ronald G. Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Alexander Litvin wrote: > > Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > :BTW, concerning rfork(RFMEM). Could somebody explain me, why the > > > :following simple program is coredumping: > > > You cannot call rfork() with R

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-12 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Alexander Litvin wrote: > Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > :BTW, concerning rfork(RFMEM). Could somebody explain me, why the > > :following simple program is coredumping: > > You cannot call rfork() with RFMEM directly from a C program. You > > have to u

'File Exists' message in ifconfig

2000-01-12 Thread Daniel Hilevich
Hi, I keep getting the message 'ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists' when I configuring an interface. The interface I'm configuring works above the sppp interface. I noticed that in the sppp driver code, the first thing it does upon recieving an SIOCSIFADDR ioctl (function aifioctl) is to c

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:47:06 MST, Wes Peters wrote: > Sheldon, do you want to tackle that one? You seem to be in a manpage mood > these days. If someone writes up plain text for the manual page, I'll be more than happy to do mdoc mark-up and grammar clean-ups. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-12 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> > :> The reason is that rfork(RFMEM) does not give the new process a new > :> stack, so both the old and new processes wind up on the same original > :> stack and stomp all over each other. > : > :There is an implementation of clone() in the linuxthreads p

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-12 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> > :> The reason is that rfork(RFMEM) does not give the new process a new > :> stack, so both the old and new processes wind up on the same original > :> stack and stomp all over each other. > : > :There is an implementation of clone() in the linuxthreads p

Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-12 Thread Alexander Litvin
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :BTW, concerning rfork(RFMEM). Could somebody explain me, why the > :following simple program is coredumping: > You cannot call rfork() with RFMEM directly from a C program. You > have to use assembly (has anyone created a native clone() call

Changes in threading support

2000-01-12 Thread ROGIER MULHUIJZEN
Hi, I recently upgraded from 3.2-R to 3.4-R and there's a huge difference in running xmms. On 3.2-R I had to give it a realtime priority (lowest rtprio, 31, worked fine) to make it run smoothly. With that realtime prio it usually worked fine, except when it ran into a bug that made it go into an

Re: Schedular!!

2000-01-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
i think dummynet(4) already does things you need ? cheers luigi > Hi, > > I am trying to modify the "ipfw" code to do some additional processing > on receiving a packet. I needed to generate some specific delays > intentionally. > > Schedular should process a packet and it shou

Schedular!!

2000-01-12 Thread Mahesh Sooriyabandara
Hi, I am trying to modify the "ipfw" code to do some additional processing on receiving a packet. I needed to generate some specific delays intentionally. Schedular should process a packet and it should avoid processing of further packets for a certain perod.(ths will be in millisecond range). I