NT life spans [was: UDF]

2000-01-14 Thread Michael Bacarella
> Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have > been lost waiting for NT to reboot. > Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Hmm. Our Compaq Proliant (running NT) takes about 5 whole minutes from the moment I click reboot to the time when I

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread jack
Today Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I personally was always more inclined towards the belief that > `BFD' actually stood for `Big F***ing Deal', as in ``Who > gives a damn?'' Unless you're being chased by a Big F***ing Dog. :)

Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Is this disk by any chance a SCSI drive? No, the message discusses errors coming from the wd(4) driver. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Today's assembler command : EXOP Execute Operator `---

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: >On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured >> that they had the obvious meaning. :-) > > BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor. Oh sure. That's one interpretation. However

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured > that they had the obvious meaning. :-) BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |I'm sorry my Karma ran over your Dogma. `

Re: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-14 Thread Doug Russell
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Start with the PR database. Grab a PR, see if you can figure out what makes > > it go wrong,

Re: UDF

2000-01-14 Thread Harold Gutch
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:29:58AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Brian Beattie wrote: > > I have been looking at UDF ( the filesystem used on CD-RW and DVD's ). I > > was wondering if anybody was working on it. I'm thinking about trying to > > implement it for CD-RW's and would like to

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it >to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses >Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in >fac

Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-14 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Shankland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >By the way, I also struck out with DOS fdisk: it took one look >at the garbage partition table, and wedged. I'll be trying a >Linux rescue disk next. If that fails, too, then I seem to >have generated a 1-Gigabyte hock

"very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-14 Thread Jim Shankland
I was experimenting with disk formats yesterday, and wanted to see if the BIOS on one of my machines would boot a hard drive with a boot sector (like on a floppy), but no real MBR (i.e., the "AA55" magic number is in place at offset 510, but there is no partition table; more specifically, the "par

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:34:15AM -0500, James Howard wrote: > > I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it > > to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses > > Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf fi

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:34:15AM -0500, James Howard wrote: > I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it > to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses > Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in > fact. Does

libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread James Howard
I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in fact. Does FreeBSD provide a similar interface? Poking around the man pages has

Re: UDF

2000-01-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Brian Beattie wrote: > I have been looking at UDF ( the filesystem used on CD-RW and DVD's ). I > was wondering if anybody was working on it. I'm thinking about trying to > implement it for CD-RW's and would like to avoid duplication of effort and > the anoyance of getting half way thro