Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

2009-05-05 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Joerg Sonnenberger escribió: Unicode covers Korean. It just violates the "one logic character equals one UCS-4 character" or however you want to put. More trivial example can be obtained when looking at both your and my name. Diacrets have historically been part of the character, but it is possi

Re: Definition of NULL

2009-05-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 02/05/2009 19:35 Erik Trulsson said the following: > Is the use of C++ inside the kernel really supported? I don't think so, > but I could be wrong. First question is what did you mean by "supported"? :-) Fortunately, it almost does not need to be supported, it can simply be used (with some k

Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9)

2009-05-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 01/05/2009 14:56 Maxim Sobolev said the following: > Christoph Mallon wrote: >> Roman Divacky schrieb: >>> I like the part about using as many variables as possible because >>> of documentation and performance enhancements. I tend to like >>> the other changes as well.. >> >> This is not about u

Re: Cobalt Raq 550

2009-05-05 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On 05.05.2009, Simon Dick wrote: > with them at my last job, I don't remember hearing about anyone who'd > managed to get anything except linux working on it though (though I'm > sure someone must have!) Perhaps somewhat off-topic, but: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/cobalt/ - Jukka. __

Re: Cobalt Raq 550

2009-05-05 Thread Simon Dick
On Fri, 1 May 2009 08:48:09 -0700, "Justin G." said: > Hello Hackers, > > We came into a Cobalt Raq 550 the other day and were wondering if we > could put it to use. I've googled and googled and found only guides > for Linux installs. Much of it is quite similar, but my issue is with > the loader

Re: concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-05-05 Thread vasanth raonaik
Hello Jt, I am a newbee in this alias. I am having a very basic question. It would be really good if you could give me some of this information. Could you please elaborate on what is the current architecture of sysctl implementation and How the concurrency would benefit us. Thanks in advance, Vas

Re: Patch for MS Hyper V (virtualization)

2009-05-05 Thread David Malone
I was talking about the Hyper-V problem with a guy from MS, and he followed up on it for me. It seems this is a known issue, which should be fixed in the latest version of Hyper-V (i.e. the RC of Windows Server 2008 R2 that was released on TechNet last week). David. ___

concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-05-05 Thread jt
Hackers, I've been using FreeBSD since a boy and now its time for me to give back. I will be doing my final projects in university concerning concurrency in the FreeBSD Kernel. I've been discussing with Ed@ methods of implementing sysctl concurrently since we use sysctl quite a lot for _eve