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A quick VM question

2001-12-16 Thread Zhihui Zhang
What are the backing objects of the stack and heap area of a process's address space? When are they created? I saw the code vm_map_insert(), but the object argument given is NULL. Thanks, -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

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2001-12-16 Thread Miss Cleo
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Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Tony Naggs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hiten Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >hi, > >BTW, i am a first timer at porting a file system... That is okay, few programmers ever port more than one file system. Most useful is to have some experience programming and debugging FreeBSD kernel code. Also usefu

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Tony
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:45:22 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> No, it's not. The Linux JFS is derived from the OS/2 JFS code, not >> the good AIX JFS code. > >That's correct, but note that AIX is moving to this code

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-16 Thread Tony
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brandon D. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > [snip] >but it still can't touch the FreeBSD NFS implementation. The more >robust you make it the easier it is for me to argue for deployment of >more FreeBSD systems in NFS server roles. The only advantage Linux h

Re: aps2file doesn't work on FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Anthony Schneider
Well, the reason I brought up $USER inheritance is that on linux, $USER is root after an su to root, whereas on FreeBSD, the $USER is the same as before the su. Not really thinking, I thought that perhaps that refleted the inherited $UID, which I was wrong about. Sorry for that. You might want

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: > In article by Greg Lehey: > [about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX >http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also >that in fact they allow access to the code via >license d

Re: aps2file doesn't work on FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Andreas Klemm
> try it with an su -l, or explicitly set $USER to 'root', or even replace > -n"$USER" with -n"root". this is all assuming that -n is specifying some > sort of user privilege which you intend in this example to be root. > if not, please forget this email. :) > -Anthony. I'm looking for a technic

Apple and BSD (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-16 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! Sorry to jump in here but.. I've read the thread starting with Jordans posting of the Apple testcase code with great interest. To me this has been one of the most interesting and reassuring readings in hackers for a long time. (Yes, I'm a lurker here). First, I take the testcase code

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:29:04AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2001-Dec-16 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > The other almost-the-same UFS that could be useful is the Tru64 UFS. > Last time I tried, I could mount a Tru64 UFS CD-ROM on FreeBSD, but > the box would

Re: aps2file doesn't work on FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Anthony Schneider
Well, I'm not sure if you really want to be "creating" /dev/stdout, but the $USER variable after an su is still your login name before the su. anthony:/home/anthony:24% su Password: flack# echo $USER anthony flack# try it with an su -l, or explicitly set $USER to 'root', or even replace -n"$USE

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-16 Thread David Greenman
> >David Greenman writes: > > >David Greenman wrote: > > >> >In any case, disabling it is what ClickArray ended up doing, as well, > > >> >for the Tigon II, until the firmware could be fixed. > > >> > > >>We're talking about the Tigon III (bge driver for Broadcom BCM5700/BCM5701). > > > > > >

aps2file doesn't work on FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Andreas Klemm
No matter if root or not ... root@titan[ttyp2]{139} ~ aps2file -D -P lp /etc/passwd /usr/local/bin/aps2file: cannot create /dev/stdout: permission denied andreas@titan[ttyp2]{1011} ~ aps2file -D -P lp /etc/passwd /usr/local/bin/aps2file: cannot create /dev/stdout: permission denied Cc: to FreeB

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2001-Dec-16 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Firstly, call me crazy, but I thought the 2BSD filesystem layout was >essentially UFS, i.e i-nodes at the start, and therefore would be >pretty much the same as /sys/ufs/ufs in FreeBSD. I'll have to do a >compare of the sourc

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to makeFreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Two things I've done to speed it up are to restrict the size of transfers :(use the -o flag) and eliminate all the size checks (use the -n flag). : :Why would MFS be much faster than UFS? On the server doesn't the whole :file end up cached? ...and the metadata changes likewise via softupdates.

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Barcroft
Warren Toomey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As for commercial use, that's a separate issue. I don't know how easy > it would be for us to talk Caldera into allowing that. Isn't Caldera keen on the BSD license? Here's a relevent quote: "Following the acquisition of Webmin by Caldera, all past and

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Smith
JFWIW, you can build fsx with minimal or no changes on Windows with David Korn's UWIN kit. All of the other posix-y kits have internal problems that will cause spurious failures. If you want to use Windows boxes as test clients (probably a good idea) this is fairly important... > > I gave o

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-16 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> I gave out fsx source code at the recent CIFS (SMB) plugfest. If I make > the 2002 Connectathon I'll give it out there too. I don't test it on > Windows so those defines may be in need of repair. Please send me any > patches or cool additions. Guy Harris of NetApp sent me a whole mess-o-chan

Re: closeing files in detach()

2001-12-16 Thread Brad Huntting
>> There's a mention in the FBSD hacking guide that a detach() routine >> for a device driver can forcably close all open descriptors for >> its device before it unloads. >> >> How does one do this? > Check this out (from one of my USB device drivers I haven't yet > forced upon the world): > >

3Com driver problems

2001-12-16 Thread TD790
In a message dated 12/16/01 10:25:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well, I'm unable to lock up my -current box with a 3c905-tx (non-B or C). > However, I can see the delay (apparently) caused by the stat collection > routine, which was previously mentioned in the messag

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-16 Thread Andrew Gallatin
David Greenman writes: > >David Greenman wrote: > >> >In any case, disabling it is what ClickArray ended up doing, as well, > >> >for the Tigon II, until the firmware could be fixed. > >> > >>We're talking about the Tigon III (bge driver for Broadcom BCM5700/BCM5701). > > > >Crap. Th

RE: 3Com driver problems

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We dont sell ethernet drivers, and Im not trying to "hide". Why does linux > have specific code to disable the stats under load if Im making this up? Why > can you lock up a FreeBSD 4.4 system with a 3com card at 20Kpps due to > counter overflow int

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to makeFreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-16 Thread Conrad Minshall
At 5:22 PM -0800 12/15/01, Matthew Dillon wrote: >Ho! Will do. I'm going to try to speed things up a bit by >having the NFS server export an MFS filesystem. > > -Matt Two things I've done to speed it up are to restrict the size of transfers (use th

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 18:37:33 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: > I would say that FreeBSD already has a nearly-working UFS > implementation. Also, the structure of UFS is so well documented in > various books that, even if FreeBSD's UFS implementation was > deficient, it could be rectified w