linux syscall modify_ldt() returning wrong errno

2009-06-25 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm currently playing a bit with the linux test project (ltp). it seems the linux syscall modify_ldt() isn't implemented correctly. the following code should set errno to ENOSYS, but instead EINVAL is being returned: int main(int ac, char **av) { int lc; /* loop

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-25 Thread jflowers
I wound up using kraduk's suggestion except for using a snapshot instead of a live file system. Because the source disk had suffered DMA errors and a few files lost to SOFT UPDATE errors, I built a full system first and then let rsync merge the two. mount -u -o snapshot /snapshot/snap1 / mdconfig

Re: 8 week projects

2009-06-25 Thread Joel Dahl
Sean Bruno skrev: My open source class this summer has a lot of people in it looking for 8 week projects. If you have a decently spec'd out project that a Junior/Senior CS student can accomplish, send me a link or pointer to it and I'll see if I can get the project some attention. There are ma

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-25 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:11:21PM +0100, krad wrote: > Personally id stay away from dd. Create the partitions and file systems > manually, and install the boot loader, then rsync the data across. It will > be a lot faster in most cases, as unlike dd you wont be copying unused > space. Something li

Another reason to register and attend Kernel Conference Australia

2009-06-25 Thread James C. McPherson
Hello everybody, If you were still in need of a reason to come to Kernel Conference Australia, how about this: Brendan Gregg, author of the DTraceToolkit and member of the Fishworks team at Sun Microsystems is going to be presenting on DTrace at Kernel Conference Australia. Here's a short bio

Re: small usr.bin/find patch

2009-06-25 Thread Alexander Best
wow. thanks a bunch for all the great info. Matthew Seaman schrieb am 2009-06-24: > Alexander Best wrote: > > hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to > > indicate > > kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever > > standard > > telling app developers

Re: 8 week projects

2009-06-25 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 24/6/09 17:40, Sean Bruno wrote: > My open source class this summer has a lot of people in it looking for 8 > week projects. > > If you have a decently spec'd out project that a Junior/Senior CS > student can accomplish, send me a link or pointer to it and I'll see if > I can get the project som