Re: Geli questions

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Vince
Jeff Palmer wrote: Hello, Let me preface the email by saying I'm not overly familiar with geli, and it may already have the ability to do what I'm about to describe. The scenario: A FreeBSD based appliance at a customer premise. The customer really can't be trusted not to disasemble the b

Re: The proper way to open a file from inside the kernel

2006-08-23 Thread Joseph Koshy
I am experimenting with modifying a kernel module and I need to be able to open/read/write/close a file from within the module. Is there a preferred way to do this? Are there any locking or buffering issues that I need to be aware of? sys/kern/kern_alq.c:alq_open() and sys/kern/kern_ktrace.c:k

6.1-current 20060823 ath0 stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)

2006-08-23 Thread Jared Mauch
I have a Soekris 4501 (and 4521) i'm attempting to get set up with the Atheros mini-pci cards 168c:0012 (rev 01), ie: ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ath0: mem 0xa000-0xa000 irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:01:24:

Forcing the kernel-toolchain to jive with my new "port"

2006-08-23 Thread R. Tyler Ballance
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've finally found time to work on my L4::BSD project again, and I'm getting back into the building of the kernel and it's various "friends" alongside it for the new "port" (iguana, which is the minimalistic L4 based OS that will help bridge the

Re: get DMI information in kernel

2006-08-23 Thread m . ehinger
Stefan Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 22.08.2006 21:22:31: > > kenv(2) has smbios entries; they're available through getenv() and > getenv_() in the kernel. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ > cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/smbios.c for the history. > OK I can get the "System Inform

Re: About loader(8) forth

2006-08-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Matteo Riondato wrote: > > Just to have a try, I replaced /boot/beastie.4th with file a > > containing only: > > > > ." Welcome to FreeSBIE" > > exit > > > > then I deleted the line mentioning beastie-start from /boot/loader.rc > > and rebooted my machine. > [...

The proper way to open a file from inside the kernel

2006-08-23 Thread Kim Shrier
Hello, I am experimenting with modifying a kernel module and I need to be able to open/read/write/close a file from within the module. Is there a preferred way to do this? Are there any locking or buffering issues that I need to be aware of? Thanks, Kim -- Kim Shrier - principal, Shrier and D

Re: RFMEM and mmap()

2006-08-23 Thread Julian Elischer
Divacky Roman wrote: hi I wonder what happens when proc A, create proc B using fork1(td, RFMEM, 0, &p2); and either A or B mmap()s something. is the mmaped memory shared among the procs? what if it brk()s something? the virtual memory space is totally shared. this is how linuxthreads w

RE: Geli questions

2006-08-23 Thread David S. Madole
> From: Jeff Palmer > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:17 PM > > The idea: I'd like to use geli to encrypt *everything* on > the disk. So if someone (a competitor maybe) removes the > disk from the machine, he can't gain any data off of it > easily. I know nothing is 100%, but why make th

Re: Geli questions

2006-08-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Jeff Palmer wrote: > Hello, > > > Let me preface the email by saying I'm not overly familiar with geli, and > it may already have the ability to do what I'm about to describe. > > The scenario: A FreeBSD based appliance at a customer premise. The > c

Geli questions

2006-08-23 Thread Jeff Palmer
Hello, Let me preface the email by saying I'm not overly familiar with geli, and it may already have the ability to do what I'm about to describe. The scenario: A FreeBSD based appliance at a customer premise. The customer really can't be trusted not to disasemble the box, and gain knowledg

missing license?

2006-08-23 Thread Eric Anderson
Is this file supposed to have a license at the top? sys/fs/udf/osta.h Eric -- Eric AndersonSr. Systems AdministratorCentaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.

Re: Aqcuiring full path to running process from outside the kernel

2006-08-23 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:59:07 -0500 (CDT) Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > If we get back to the question of why we need the file, > we might not need it at all. As far as I understand, > the problem is that the Watcom compiler works by > sticking a set of messages into the executable

Re: Aqcuiring full path to running process from outside the ?kernel

2006-08-23 Thread Reko Turja
- Original Message - From: "Oliver Fromme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Aqcuiring full path to running process from outside the ?kernel Oliver Fromme wrote: Another way would be to use /proc/$$/file (where $$ is

RFMEM and mmap()

2006-08-23 Thread Divacky Roman
hi I wonder what happens when proc A, create proc B using fork1(td, RFMEM, 0, &p2); and either A or B mmap()s something. is the mmaped memory shared among the procs? what if it brk()s something? thnx roman -- www.liberalnistrana.cz ___

Re: Aqcuiring full path to running process from outside the ?kernel

2006-08-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Reko Turja wrote: > But as said in earlier post of mine, I managed to achieve what I was > trying with the following code - using the sysctl seems to achieve > what was needed reliably enough, at least for now. > > int mib[4]; > size_t len; > mib[0] = CTL_KERN; > mib[1] = KERN_PROC; > m

Re: exception handling in kernel code

2006-08-23 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:36:40 +0200 "Attilio Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > Mmm, I think that a better approach would be refering to different > MSRs tables for pentium, p6 and Pentium 4 (if I remind correctly they > are which show differences). It is more extensible, portable and > possib