Re: Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread Brian Somers
> I noticed some people talking about the linux emulation and how good/bad it > can be and I just wondered, does anybody here have any experiences with the > vmware for linux software? I have been thinking of buying this, for those > one or two windows programs that I need to use now and then. To

Re: truss(1) with support for fork(2) and friends

2000-05-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Arun Sharma scribbled this message on May 26: > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:51:48PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > well, has another committer expressed intrest in this work? I was > > looking at committing your code, but it's both for an out of date version > > of truss, and run though ident.

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis writes: : My 4.0 system doesnt probe ISA devices on my system. : : Whats the trick? Is there a config requirement with old-style drivers? They probe great for me. what, specifically, isn't probing? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: truss(1) with support for fork(2) and friends

2000-05-26 Thread Arun Sharma
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:51:48PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > well, has another committer expressed intrest in this work? I was > looking at committing your code, but it's both for an out of date version > of truss, and run though ident... if you could provide the changes > to the -current

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-26 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > I check it in FreeBSD 4.0-R > open do not change atime. Indeed, but it sets a bunch of flags that can be referred to later by the driver. This would be a good flag - perhaps limited in the same way that touching the file is (owner only). [.] > -- > @BABOLO http://links.ru/

Re: truss(1) with support for fork(2) and friends

2000-05-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Arun Sharma scribbled this message on May 20: > I just implemented the "-f" flag in truss, to trace across fork(2), > rfork(2) and vfork(2) (the last one is not tested). [...] > I'm guilty of running indent against the source, before I did this work. > So I can't generate a clean patch yet. But

Re: Linux Module problems

2000-05-26 Thread Bosko Milekic
> > As explained in /usr/src/UPDATING, you have to rebrand them: > > > > brandelf -t Linux > > > > The first candidate (and i think this explain you problem) > > if of course /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig. > > Am giving it a shot. > This worked. Than

Re: Linux Module problems

2000-05-26 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Alain Thivillon wrote: > I had the same problem with all statically linked Linux > binaries, including rpm. I guess that loader does not recognize as > Linux, launch them as FreeBSD static and one of the syscall is mapped to > halt() (for example if dont launch rpm as

Kernel threads (RE: alphaworks 1.3 linux port)

2000-05-26 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
(I CC:'d to -hackers, perhaps someone can enlighten us wrt. the availability of kernel threads..) On Fri, 26 May 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > > > Has anyone had a look at this? Reports are that it's a big > > > improvement over the BDown stuff. Anyone had a play yet? > > > 1.3 is a big impr

Re: Linux Module problems

2000-05-26 Thread Alain Thivillon
Bosko Milekic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait (wrote) : > What's more odd is that now, after panic()ing the machine a couple of > times with the above, I can reproduce the spontaneous reboot easily too, > by just starting up linux Netscape! I had the same problem with all statically l

Linux Module problems

2000-05-26 Thread Bosko Milekic
On my -CURRENT machine, FreeBSD jehovah 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat May 13 15:11:13 EDT 2000 root@jehovah:/usr/src/sys/compile/JEHOVAH i386 (obviously a little out-dated), I have recently noticed unusual problems with the linux module which, by the way, is of

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-26 Thread Marco van de Voort
> That's not justification for putting a creation time into the UFS. > Different filesystems store different information - depending on > what the FS developers saw as important. You could just as easily > point out the deficiencies of NTFS based on it's inability to > support all the metadata in

Re: getdirentries() and /proc

2000-05-26 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > The man page for getdirentries() says: > > int > getdirentries(int fd, char *buf, int nbytes, long *basep) > > "The nbytes argument must be greater than or equal to the block > size associated with the file, see stat(2). Some filesys- > tems may not support t

Re: Needed: suid library calls [or pkey's?]

2000-05-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:01 PM -0700 5/25/00, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Thu, 25 May 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > It was called program keys, or 'pkey's. When a program > > was running, there was this pkey attribute (in addition > > to uid and gid). The pkey was a 16-character value (if > > I remember right).

Re: fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2000-05-26 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Greg Skouby wrote: > Hello, > > I posted a message to -questions yesterday about a machine that had the > /dev directory somewhat corrupt. I could ls -la /dev/wd0* but when I was > in the /dev director when I did an ls it was not showing any of the files. > Now, today the

4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-26 Thread Dennis
My 4.0 system doesnt probe ISA devices on my system. Whats the trick? Is there a config requirement with old-style drivers? Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Duncan Barclay wrote: > > I have in my archives some code from the "person" who usually brings up > the logical name stuff (the code implements them). > > However, there is also this snippet: > > PS: if you need the changes to namei() for variant symbolic links, > ask me nicely,

Re: Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread A G F Keahan
James, You can download a fully functional 30-day evaluation version of VMWare and see for yourself (make sure you tell them that your "distribution of Linux" is FreeBSD). There are two ports in the FreeBSD ports collection -- /usr/ports/emulators/vmware1 and vmware2, which make installation a l

S5933 PCI Adapter..??

2000-05-26 Thread Joy Ganguly
hi all, i have a atm oc3 care which uses the amcc S5933 PCI adapter. however the driver reports "unable to map mem" at boot time. i used pciconf to read the configuration space base address registers and all of them showed 0x. however when i write all 1's t the base registers they give me

Re: Unexpected reboot.

2000-05-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Essenz Consulting writes: > I posted this awhile back I didnt get much response. > > Basically, I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. > > Every couple of days it reboots for now reason. When I looked at the logs, > it shows regular log data, then the next line reads "/kernel: Copyright > (c

Re: Unexpected reboot.

2000-05-26 Thread Patrick Barmentlo
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Essenz Consulting wrote: > I posted this awhile back I didnt get much response. > > Basically, I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. > > Every couple of days it reboots for now reason. When I looked at the logs, > it shows regular log data, then the next line reads "/k

Re: Unexpected reboot.

2000-05-26 Thread Alexander Langer
This to make the memory settings more conservative. I had that too earlier, and after I changed that the machine became much more stable: 5:01pm up 62 days, 20:10, 4 users, load averages: 2.31, 2.12, 1.86 (nfs-buildworld/ports server) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Unexpected reboot.

2000-05-26 Thread Essenz Consulting
I posted this awhile back I didnt get much response. Basically, I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. Every couple of days it reboots for now reason. When I looked at the logs, it shows regular log data, then the next line reads "/kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Then t

Re: ncurses.h and #define trace _nc_trace

2000-05-26 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:42:07AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > How about adding a stub instead of a #define? Performance really > shouldn't be an issue in this case! Yes, #define was a quick solution. We need either to add a stub or to import ncurses author fix (removing all trace function fr

RTLD_NODELETE, RTLD_NOLOAD dlopen mode flags

2000-05-26 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! Are there any plans to implement RTLD_NODELETE and RTLD_NOLOAD mode flags for dlopen? from Solaris 2.6 man 3X dlopen: The following modes provide additional capabilities outside of relocation processing: RTLD_NODELETE The specified object will not be deleted

fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2000-05-26 Thread Greg Skouby
Hello, I posted a message to -questions yesterday about a machine that had the /dev directory somewhat corrupt. I could ls -la /dev/wd0* but when I was in the /dev director when I did an ls it was not showing any of the files. Now, today the machine was rebooting over and over again, freezing w

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-26 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Peter Jeremy writes: > On 2000-May-25 19:03:56 +1000, Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Of course access timestamps are usually useless anyway as most (?!!) > >people will back up their system from time to time OOPS ! I > >never realised before now - dump *doesn't* update the acces

Dell-7500 + Atapi CD-R wierdness

2000-05-26 Thread Julian Elischer
I have an atapi CD-R drive in my laptop. under windows I created a disk, using the Adaptec CD-DIRECT software. (UDF-1.50) now I'm using it as a sample of a UDF 1.50 filesystem fo my UDF code. however I've hit something rather puzzling: if I do dd if=/dev/acd0c of=stuff and analyse that file, I

Re: review request: truncate(1)

2000-05-26 Thread Johan Karlsson
Hi again, I found your updated version and I look good. However, I just realised that I would get ride of the modeset variable by moving the default assignment of mode to the begining. /Johan K --- truncate.c.orig Fri May 26 10:34:54 2000 +++ truncate.c Fri May 26 10:37:52 2000 @@ -46,8

Re: review request: truncate(1)

2000-05-26 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Johan Karlsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > However, the man page does not mention that one have to also > specify the wanted size of the file. Oooops :-) *correcting* Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the

ncurses.h and #define trace _nc_trace

2000-05-26 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
The following change to /usr/include/ncurses.h which adds a #define trace _nc_trace causes problems with our Wine port and probably further software: 1.1.1.3 (vendor branch) Wed May 24 10:44:45 2000 UTC by peter CVS Tags: v5_0_19991023, HEAD; Branch: NCURSES Bring in the fix for the tr

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-26 Thread sthaug
> > > Such editors are broken. What if the file is a symlink ? IMHO > > > open() write() write() write() ftruncate() close() is the only way. > > > > If that is the only way, then emacs is of course broken. (And I > > disagree - I use emacs every day...) > > Now there's an argument waiting to

Re: file creation times ?

2000-05-26 Thread Brian Somers
> > Such editors are broken. What if the file is a symlink ? IMHO > > open() write() write() write() ftruncate() close() is the only way. > > If that is the only way, then emacs is of course broken. (And I > disagree - I use emacs every day...) Now there's an argument waiting to happen :-) S

Re: Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread Colman Reilly
I was asking this yesterday as well ... /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2 is a pretty new port as far as I can make out. I had to upgrade to 4.0-STABLE to make it work on my machine, but it does work, network, sound and all. Seems stable to me. You also *need* the linuxprocfs port installed and moun

Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread James Halstead
I noticed some people talking about the linux emulation and how good/bad it can be and I just wondered, does anybody here have any experiences with the vmware for linux software? I have been thinking of buying this, for those one or two windows programs that I need to use now and then. Just wonde