Re: FreeBSD and MacOS

2004-07-02 Thread John Von Essen
I think when I originally started this thread it had to do with confusion concerning what constitutes current OS X. I know rhapsody started with heavy OPENSTEP 4.2 influence, but it seems that some major changes have occurred since rhapsody/10.0 and current 10.3. The OPENSTEP stuff gave the

Re: FreeBSD and MacOS

2004-07-02 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:01:49PM +0200, Martin Olsson wrote: > Hi, > > * MacOS X is based on FreeBSD > * there is a x86 kernel for FreeBSD > > Does that mean I can buy a copy of MacOS X, download an x86 kernel for > freeBSD, do some (or quite alot of) hacking and then get MacOS X running > on

Custom kernel syscall module & data validation

2004-07-02 Thread Kentucky Mandeloid Mo.
Hi, hackers! I wrote a small kernel module whch impliments some syscall. Syscall takes a char * as a parameter. Theoriticaly its posible to pass a bad pointer from userland. What should I do in orde to check the pointer from userland? I use copyout(9) to store data from kernel to userland but it do

Re: Setting Standby Mode for ATA Disks

2004-07-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25 Jun 2004, at 17:51, Arne Schwabe wrote: Hi, is there a way to set the standby mode for ATA Disks Under linux hdparm -S seems to work: -S Set the standby (spindown) timeout for the drive. This value is used by the drive to determine how long to wait (with no disk

Re: writing to RW-mounted UFS2 snapshots - confirmed.

2004-07-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Q wrote: > >> This is unexpected. You can successfully mount the snapshot > >> read/write and create and write to files in that snapshot. You can > >> also write to files that existed in the snapshot prior to mounting it > >> read/write. > > > > Perhaps the writing is done f