Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 15/11/2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is due to the fact that CVS doesn't have changesets. It is too > late now and it is also quite complicated to explain, but it boils down > to the fact that aggregating changesets will remove information, namely > the singl

sem_open(3) BUGS, must be less than 14 characters still true?

2007-11-14 Thread Jeremy Messenger
Hello folks, I am maintaining for net-p2p/linuxdcpp, I noticed that in pkgsrc has a patch for linuxdcpp to make the characters less than 14 in sem_open() to fix bug. I am wondering how I can reproduce this problem? I run linuxdcpp pretty often and I don't see any problem. It makes me wonder

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread icantthinkofone
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 11:11:41 am Rob Belics wrote: > > Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't > > know anything about this and would love to respond. My first thought was > > 'contigmalloc' but I'm not sure it's equivalent. > > [QUOTE]The kernel is rea

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 11:11:41 am Rob Belics wrote: > Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't > know anything about this and would love to respond. My first thought was > 'contigmalloc' but I'm not sure it's equivalent. > [QUOTE]The kernel is really lackin

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> I'm only tracking 'HEAD' most of the time, but there are some efforts >>> underway to convert the history of src/. One notable example is the >>> effort to convert to Subversion first, and then use the tags/branches >>> and changesets of Subversion to populate an Hg tr

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-14 19:08, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [cc cleaned, dropped -current] > >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> I'm only tracking 'HEAD' most of the time, but there are some efforts >> underway to convert the history of src/. One notable example is the >> effort to conver

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
OutbackDingo wrote: >> I suppose you know about fromcvs. I also guess you know that I suggest >> using git instead of hg. Doesn't produce nasty large index files either :) > So would you think cvs -> git -> hg might be easier to accomplish ?? > Since one of my goals is to update projects Ive done

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread OutbackDingo
> I suppose you know about fromcvs. I also guess you know that I suggest > using git instead of hg. Doesn't produce nasty large index files either :) > > cheers > simon So would you think cvs -> git -> hg might be easier to accomplish ?? Since one of my goals is to update projects Ive done b

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
[cc cleaned, dropped -current] Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > I'm only tracking 'HEAD' most of the time, but there are some efforts > underway to convert the history of src/. One notable example is the > effort to convert to Subversion first, and then use the tags/branches > and changesets of Subvers

FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread Rob Belics
Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about this and would love to respond. My first thought was 'contigmalloc' but I'm not sure it's equivalent. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory c

Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

2007-11-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 22:41:28 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Why? > No specific reason. linux worked hard to get multiseat working. > > Can we have a free ride? I doubt very much. Just because Linux sucks, FreeBSD necessarily sucks too? It should work out of t

Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:41:28 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Why? > No specific reason. linux worked hard to get multiseat working. Can we have a free ride? I doubt very much. > > Keyboard data would not be MUX'd if you didn't use kbdmux. Unless you > use moused mouse events wouldn't be MUX'd. > > I have

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-14 Thread Skip Ford
Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: > >Robert Watson wrote: > >>On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: > >> > >>>Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat. > >>> > >>>But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that > >>>needs to lookup fil

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-14 15:31, OutbackDingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All ive seen in FreeBSD hg branches is a current and a releng_6 Id > like to see a complete tree converted if there is one out there. I do > have some bandwidth to potentially host such a conversion for others. > question is does one ex

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-14 17:48, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been using a 'converted' tree for almost a year and a half now, >> to keep a local mirror of the src repository at `/ws/freebsd/head' on >> my laptop. The first clean import of the current tree I am using was >> done during la

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat. But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that needs to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need s

Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 14:20:51 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Couldn't you just run N copies of X (one for each head) and tell > > them which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file? > > > > ie don't use sysmouse or kbdmux. > > Try it. If it works let

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-14 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: > > Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat. > > > > But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that > > needs to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-14 Thread Skip Ford
Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: > > >Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat. > > > >But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that needs > >to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need some solution > >now. > > I

Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:20:51 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Couldn't you just run N copies of X (one for each head) and tell them > which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file? > > ie don't use sysmouse or kbdmux. Try it. If it works let us know. :) Very unlikely. Nowadays all X display manage

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat. But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that needs to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need some solution now. If the port uses a script to extract the da

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that > needs to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need some > solution now. You can not reliably obtain a file name from a file descriptor. The best you can hope for is to find a fi