Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-13 Thread Jos Backus
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:45:18AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Why use pid files at all if you could be using a process supervisor instead? > > Who supervises the supervisor? Heh. The supervisor should be small and robust, like init. Has init died on you recently? Do you want to solve this pr

Re: Confused about HyperThreading and Performance

2003-11-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Daniel Ellard wrote: > Can someone point me at some non-marketing documentation about > hyperthreading on the latest Intel chips? I'm seeing some strange > performance measurements and I would like to figure out what they > mean. Go out to Intel's web site's "developer" section, and look for "SMT

Re: instant message: ymessenger problem

2003-11-13 Thread Vlad Galu
Jose Kulalapnot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |tnx Vlad. im now running ymessenger. my id is |buttmanizer. add me if u want. | I would, but your ID sounds scary :) | | | --- Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vlad |Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> |Jose Kulalapnot <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: kqueue, NOTE_EOF

2003-11-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Jaromir Dolecek wrote: > marius aamodt eriksen wrote: > > in order to be able to preserve consistent semantics across poll, > > select, and kqueue (EVFILT_READ), i propose the following change: on > > EVFILT_READ, add an fflag NOTE_EOF which will return when the file > > pointer *is* at the end of

Re: instant message: ymessenger problem

2003-11-13 Thread Jose Kulalapnot
tnx Vlad. im now running ymessenger. my id is buttmanizer. add me if u want. --- Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > |Jose Kulalapnot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > ||my system is running 5.1 and i installed the > latest > ||ymessenger from the p

Re: failure delivery

2003-11-13 Thread Jose Kulalapnot
tnx Vlad. im now running ymessenger. my id is buttmanizer. add me if u want. --- Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > |Jose Kulalapnot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > ||my system is running 5.1 and i installed the > latest > ||ymessenger from the p

Re: instant message: ymessenger problem

2003-11-13 Thread Vlad Galu
Vlad Galu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |Jose Kulalapnot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | ||my system is running 5.1 and i installed the latest ||ymessenger from the ports. when i run it i get this ||message: || ||/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.4" | | Reinstall gettext and e

Re: 4.9-RELEASE, ACPI and DELL Latitude D600

2003-11-13 Thread Andre Grosse Bley
> A PR might be a good idea. The basic details are that ACPI in 4.x needs > to create a kernel process to service it's private taskqueue and then > use this taskqueue instead of the system taskqueue to service events. FYI: PR is kern/59248. Andre _

Re: instant message: ymessenger problem

2003-11-13 Thread Vlad Galu
Jose Kulalapnot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |my system is running 5.1 and i installed the latest |ymessenger from the ports. when i run it i get this |message: | |/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.4" Reinstall gettext and everything that depends on it from scratch. |no

instant message: ymessenger problem

2003-11-13 Thread Jose Kulalapnot
my system is running 5.1 and i installed the latest ymessenger from the ports. when i run it i get this message: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found how can i fix this? Want to chat instantly w

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-13 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031113 11:46]: > Jos Backus wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > > 1 - write your PID immediately, and the file is chown root:wheel > > > 2 - write your PID to /var/run/myapp/myapp.pid w

RE: kernel enviroment in sysctl MIB

2003-11-13 Thread Reinier Kleipool
Perter Pentechv wrote > Take a look at the kenv(1) utility - its source is in the > src/usr.bin/kenv/kenv.c file. Yes this does the job. But in a strange way... It starts at OID 0.3 (kern.environment) and appends small integers to it (0,1,2,3 etc). Why do it so strange.. Why are the variable name

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Jos Backus wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > If a process starts up and does a setuid, should it be writing the > > PID file before or after the setuid? > > > > Two methods exists AFAIK: > > > > 1 - write your PID immediately, and the file is chown root:whee

Re: kqueue, NOTE_EOF

2003-11-13 Thread David Laight
> AFAIK yes for sockets, not for file descriptor (i.e. descriptor > open to a file on filesystem). Would poll() give you read-availability > event when on end of file on filesystem. IIRC poll() is required to report that files are always readable. (So tail -f can't use poll() to avoid looping.) T

cpu_idle_hlt (Re: Confused about HyperThreading and Performance)

2003-11-13 Thread Eugene M. Kim
John Baldwin wrote: Also, as someone else mentioned, setting 'machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1' can be useful on some HTT systems. However, p4's have a problem with their interrupt routing that can leave the second CPU halted for a long time if you do that. I have a few quick questions... Searched on

Re: kqueue, NOTE_EOF

2003-11-13 Thread der Mouse
>> I think the difference is in the default behavior. When you're at >> EOF, I know that poll() will give you a read-availability event, so >> you'll read the EOF. Will kqueue? > AFAIK yes for sockets, not for file descriptor (i.e. descriptor open > to a file on filesystem). Would poll() give yo

Re: kqueue, NOTE_EOF

2003-11-13 Thread Jaromir Dolecek
Bill Studenmund wrote: > I think the difference is in the default behavior. When you're at EOF, I > know that poll() will give you a read-availability event, so you'll read > the EOF. Will kqueue? AFAIK yes for sockets, not for file descriptor (i.e. descriptor open to a file on filesystem). Woul

Re: Multiple IPs in Jail

2003-11-13 Thread Gregory Neil Shapiro
> Outside the jail, it worked fine. inside the jail, sendto failed with a > EINVAL error. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/26506 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubs

Re: Multiple IPs in Jail

2003-11-13 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:01:23AM -0800, FB wrote: +> We patched mijail5 (http://garage.freebsd.pl/mijail.README) against +> RELENG_5_1. Most of the patch was successful with a little fuzz, except for +> a couple lines in jls which didn't patch due to cosmetic changes (easily +> fixed). +>