Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization AND threads...

2000-08-15 Thread Lithix
|> you can have a Linda-like pool of work requests to |hand out to a swarm of | worker bees. | ^^^ | Could you please decode this for me? :) This page talks about Linda, check out the "Linda Basics" section and read about tuples. http://www.sca.com/ltutorial.html

Re: /usr/include/sys/opt_posix.h missing...?

2000-08-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Devin Butterfield writes: : I still wonder why unistd.h (assuming it is not supported for drivers) : would make any reference to a file that does not exist where it was : looking? It isn't unistd.h, per se. Rather it is in sys/unistd.h, which has to deal with some

Re: /usr/include/sys/opt_posix.h missing...?

2000-08-15 Thread Devin Butterfield
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Devin Butterfield writes: > : In trying to compile driver code which includes unistd.h, the compiler > : complains: > > #include > > isn't supported for drivers. You should not be including the > -I/usr/include on the command line to compi

RE: BOCA BB1008

2000-08-15 Thread Jason Young
> However in the /dev directory it only lists "cuaa0" thru "cuaa11". I > have tested out the first card and all the ports work as expectecd, on > the second board the first three work great (as expected > considering the > devices that are available)... however because cuaa12 and above don't >

Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization AND threads...

2000-08-15 Thread Gary T. Corcoran
Peter Dufault wrote: > you can have a Linda-like pool of work requests to hand out to a swarm of worker >bees. ^^^ Could you please decode this for me? :) Thanks, Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the bod

BOCA BB1008

2000-08-15 Thread Tim Grzechowski
Interesting problem, I have installed two Boca BB1008 boards for console access to a litter of Sun, HPUX, and AIX servers... I installed/configured one board at a time. At the bottom of this email is the info from dmesg as well as from my kernel. However in the /dev directory it only lists "cua

Digital Technical Journal - zhihui

2000-08-15 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Kanad: I remember you subscribed some journal a while ago. Was it "digital technical journal?" I found two papers on VAXcluster filesytem design on No. 5, september 1987. If so and you happen to keep that issue, please borrow me for a while. Thanks. Regards, -Zhihui

Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization AND threads...

2000-08-15 Thread Peter Dufault
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Jonas Bulow wrote: > > > After doing some more thinking about the cmpxchgl-lock, it's quite hard > > to use it together with a technique involving the kernel. > > well, no I don't think it is. I used to use it a lot, see my earlier post > from today. One point to keep i

Re: localhost cannot be resolved

2000-08-15 Thread Leif Neland
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Alexander Anderson wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I sent this question to freebsd-questions, but no one had replied, so I > decided to try my luck here. > > I'm having trouble resolving "localhost" for telnet and fetchmail. All > other programs (ftp, rlogin, rsh, ping, lynx

Re: localhost cannot be resolved

2000-08-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alexander, > At the same time fetchmail causes ipfw to produce these messages: > Aug 11 21:41:47 mydomain /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP ::0001:25 from > ::0001:1063 > Aug 11 21:41:47 mydomain /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 > from 127.0.0.1:1065 > Aug

Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization AND threads...

2000-08-15 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Jonas Bulow wrote: > After doing some more thinking about the cmpxchgl-lock, it's quite hard > to use it together with a technique involving the kernel. well, no I don't think it is. I used to use it a lot, see my earlier post from today. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization AND threads...

2000-08-15 Thread Jonas Bulow
John Polstra wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonas Bulow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Polstra wrote: > Actually I thought about this some more, and I'm not all that sure > it's possible. I haven't actually _tried_ it, but I think you'd end > up needing a low-level mutex aroun

Re: /usr/include/sys/opt_posix.h missing...?

2000-08-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Devin Butterfield writes: : In trying to compile driver code which includes unistd.h, the compiler : complains: #include isn't supported for drivers. You should not be including the -I/usr/include on the command line to compile the driver. If you are building a

re: what to do about /tmp

2000-08-15 Thread Matt Dillon
:basically obsolete. As I understood it, the regular file system has :sophisticated caching built in and effectively acts like a memory file :.. : :I noticed Matt Dillon wrote a handbook section on the VM system at :http://www.freeBSD.org/handbook/internals-vm.html that includes :some info on tun

Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization AND threads...

2000-08-15 Thread Ronald G Minnich
OK, here's a note from long ago, when this came up before. Dated: Tue Jul 2 10:48:16 1996 The idea is simple: tset is the fastest, but you only want to spin so long. Then you want to drop into the kernel, and wait for someone to wake you up. This thing was quite fast on freebsd, even four year

No Subject

2000-08-15 Thread Allen Pulsifer
I am trying to figure out what to do with my /tmp directory under FBSD 4.1 I noticed that /tmp currently lives on the root file system, where I am unable to get the benefit of softupdates or mounting "nosuid". (Is that true?) The handbook mentions mounting the swap partition on /tmp using the MFS

Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization AND threads...

2000-08-15 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonas Bulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > > I think the ideal solution would first try to lock the > > test-and-set lock, maybe spinning on it just a few times. If that > > failed it would fall back to using a system-call lock such as > > flo

What is needed to support i815 in XFree86 4.01?

2000-08-15 Thread Martin Nilsson
A friend of mine have just bought a computer with i815 chipset, I want to convert him to FreeBSD so I need to get X running om his machine with the builtin graphics on his motherboard. The graphics part of the i815 chipset is believed to be equal to that of the i810. Of course the PCI id:s are

Re[4]: how to support adaptec 29160 ?

2000-08-15 Thread Kazennov Vladimir
Hi! >> >> Please, give me some info about support adaptec 29160 with FreeBSD >> >> Kernel during installation doesn't recognise this adapter >> DM> What version of FreeBSD? It should be supported in 4.1. >> But I didn't see in hardware.txt for 4.1 this adapter... DM> gosset% grep 29160 /usr/

Re: Re[2]: how to support adaptec 29160 ?

2000-08-15 Thread David Malone
> >> Please, give me some info about support adaptec 29160 with FreeBSD > >> Kernel during installation doesn't recognise this adapter > DM> What version of FreeBSD? It should be supported in 4.1. > But I didn't see in hardware.txt for 4.1 this adapter... gosset% grep 29160 /usr/src/release/

Re[2]: how to support adaptec 29160 ?

2000-08-15 Thread Kazennov Vladimir
Hi! DM> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 07:25:42PM +0400, Kazennov Vladimir wrote: >> Please, give me some info about support adaptec 29160 with FreeBSD >> Kernel during installation doesn't recognise this adapter DM> What version of FreeBSD? It should be supported in 4.1. 3.5 But I didn't see in ha

Re: code question...

2000-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris Ptacek" w rites: >I am getting a warning from a program I wrote: > >lined in free(): warning: chunk is already free. > >Is there anyway I can figure out where exactly this is happening, maybe >cause a core or something. ln -s A /etc/malloc.conf

/usr/include/sys/opt_posix.h missing...?

2000-08-15 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi, In trying to compile driver code which includes unistd.h, the compiler complains: cc -D_KERNEL -Wall -O2 -I/usr/include -o ixj.o -c ixj.c In file included from /usr/include/sys/unistd.h:40, from /usr/include/unistd.h:42, from ixj.c:21: /usr/include/sys/_pos