procfs development

2002-04-02 Thread Alton, Matthew
>From colleague: Hello, Are there any plans to expand the procfs implementation to provide an interface that is more in line with the implementations on Unixware, Solaris and AIX? I've been writing a simple debugger that would be portable among those three platforms, and others, but it is based

RE: Electric fence usage

2002-01-09 Thread Alton, Matthew
As long as your program isn't overstepping memory boundaries nothing should happen. What were you expecting? -Original Message- From: Miguel Mendez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Electric fence usage Hi, I've installe

RE: C++ to C translator

2001-07-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
The original Stroustrop AT&T C++ complier called cfront was a front-end C compiler. They may have it available at research.att.com. It's missing some things, though, like generic container classes. -Original Message- From: Rayson Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 20

RE: kERNEL

2000-03-17 Thread Alton, Matthew
What on Earth are you talking about? > -Original Message- > From: Rafael Gomez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 07:10 > To: FreeBSD Hackers > Subject: kERNEL > > Can any of you send me a copy of a text kernel file? > > Rafael Gomez > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Pag

RE: Reading the kernel sources

2000-01-12 Thread Alton, Matthew
Get a copy of the 4.4BSD book and read the relevant code along with the various topics. "Of course you're the Messiah! I say you are and I should know, I've followed a few!" -- John Cleese in "Life of Brian" Matthew Alton Computer Services - UNIX Systems Administration (314)632-6644 [EMAIL

RE: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-11-01 Thread Alton, Matthew
: Andrzej Bialecki [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 10:56 AM > To: Alton, Matthew > Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite > > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Alton, Matthew wrote: > > > I am currently conducting a thorough study of the VFS subsy

RE: BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-19 Thread Alton, Matthew
that it is desirable, if not necessary, for the realtime throughput guarantee policy. Nes pas? > -Original Message- > From: Russell Cattelan [SMTP:catte...@thebarn.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 1:01 AM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: 'hack...@freebsd.org&

RE: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-19 Thread Alton, Matthew
n the commercial realm. As for licensing issues, I am purely agnostic -- I trust that any legal issues can be worked out after the fact by the proper people. > -Original Message- > From: Russell Cattelan [SMTP:catte...@thebarn.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 12:41 AM > To:

RE: BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-19 Thread Alton, Matthew
nd that it is desirable, if not necessary, for the realtime throughput guarantee policy. Nes pas? > -Original Message- > From: Russell Cattelan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 1:01 AM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; &#x

RE: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-19 Thread Alton, Matthew
n the commercial realm. As for licensing issues, I am purely agnostic -- I trust that any legal issues can be worked out after the fact by the proper people. > -Original Message- > From: Russell Cattelan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 12:41 AM > To: Al

RE: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-13 Thread Alton, Matthew
As I parse the SGI PR-speak, IRIX is to be folded into Linux over time in one massive penguin love-in. This will take place at some point after IRIX has been disencunbered of it's AT&T/Univel/SCO whatever... It really is a good time to be alive. -Original Message- From: Terry Lambert [ma

RE: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-13 Thread Alton, Matthew
As I parse the SGI PR-speak, IRIX is to be folded into Linux over time in one massive penguin love-in. This will take place at some point after IRIX has been disencunbered of it's AT&T/Univel/SCO whatever... It really is a good time to be alive. -Original Message- From: Terry Lambert [m

RE: BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-11 Thread Alton, Matthew
mostly done. > -Original Message- > From: Julian Elischer [SMTP:jul...@whistle.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 5:36 PM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: 'hack...@freebsd.org'; 'f...@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: BSD-XFS Update > > s

RE: BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-11 Thread Alton, Matthew
mostly done. > -Original Message- > From: Julian Elischer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 5:36 PM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: BSD-XFS Update > > s

BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-11 Thread Alton, Matthew
SGI has released a portion of the XFS source code under the GPL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/ the source file is xfs_log.tar.gz. Of greater interest at this stage are the documents in: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/design_docs/ I am currently researching methods for implementing

BSD-XFS Update

1999-08-11 Thread Alton, Matthew
SGI has released a portion of the XFS source code under the GPL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/ the source file is xfs_log.tar.gz. Of greater interest at this stage are the documents in: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/design_docs/ I am currently researching methods for implementin

RE: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-10 Thread Alton, Matthew
be done so long as the modules constitute a discrete "product." I will have my lawyer confirm this when the details of the SGI license become public. > -Original Message- > From: Chris Csanady [SMTP:ccsan...@scl.ameslab.gov] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:38 PM >

RE: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-10 Thread Alton, Matthew
can be done so long as the modules constitute a discrete "product." I will have my lawyer confirm this when the details of the SGI license become public. > -Original Message- > From: Chris Csanady [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:38 PM > To:

RE: quad_t and portability

1999-08-06 Thread Alton, Matthew
What is the approved method for getting ahold of 64 clean bits? I've been using the GNU/c9x "unsigned long long" and #ifdef-ing all over the place but this strikes me as substantially less than elegant. Once we have the bits, what is the Right Way to get them into network order? > -Original M

RE: quad_t and portability

1999-08-06 Thread Alton, Matthew
What is the approved method for getting ahold of 64 clean bits? I've been using the GNU/c9x "unsigned long long" and #ifdef-ing all over the place but this strikes me as substantially less than elegant. Once we have the bits, what is the Right Way to get them into network order? > -Original

BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-05 Thread Alton, Matthew
I am currently conducting a thorough study of the VFS subsystem in preparation for an all-out effort to port SGI's XFS filesystem to FreeBSD 4.x at such time as SGI gives up the code. Matt Dillon has written in hackers- that the VFS subsystem is presently not well understood by any of the active k

BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-05 Thread Alton, Matthew
I am currently conducting a thorough study of the VFS subsystem in preparation for an all-out effort to port SGI's XFS filesystem to FreeBSD 4.x at such time as SGI gives up the code. Matt Dillon has written in hackers- that the VFS subsystem is presently not well understood by any of the active

RE: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
, 1999 9:20 PM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: 'Nik Clayton'; David E. Cross; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed. > > > :Anyway, Mr. Dillon, once I have a development box to smack around, I > :intend to start with

RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
I'll follow these guidelines. Thank you. > -Original Message- > From: Nik Clayton [SMTP:n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:47 PM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: 'Nik Clayton'; 'Matthew Dillon'; David E. Cross; > fr

RE: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
FS code is here. What are the perceived shortcomings of the current VFS? What suggestions are being considered for the new design? What are the principal design objectives? > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Dillon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:

RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
I'll follow these guidelines. Thank you. > -Original Message- > From: Nik Clayton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:47 PM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: 'Nik Clayton'; 'Matthew Dillon'; David E. Cross; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-30 Thread Alton, Matthew
ag and drop right into the new model and build like the very wind. Thanks -Original Message- From: Nik Clayton [mailto:n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 05:09 To: Alton, Matthew Cc: 'Matthew Dillon'; David E. Cross; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.

RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-30 Thread Alton, Matthew
ag and drop right into the new model and build like the very wind. Thanks -Original Message- From: Nik Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 05:09 To: Alton, Matthew Cc: 'Matthew Dillon'; David E. Cross; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DOC volunteer

DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-29 Thread Alton, Matthew
I ran screaming into the woods last year from trying to grok VOP_foo. The prospect of a rewrite fills me with warmth and fuzziness. I hereby volunteer to maintain the VOP(9) man pages and to flesh out my notes into a big, beefy FS-implementer's Guide to the new VOP_foo. All the coders have to do

DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-07-29 Thread Alton, Matthew
I ran screaming into the woods last year from trying to grok VOP_foo. The prospect of a rewrite fills me with warmth and fuzziness. I hereby volunteer to maintain the VOP(9) man pages and to flesh out my notes into a big, beefy FS-implementer's Guide to the new VOP_foo. All the coders have to do

RE: implementing a fs on a raw partition

1999-07-08 Thread Alton, Matthew
If someone in the FS dept. would draw up a broad outline for FS implementation I hereby volunteer to flesh it out thoroughly and donate the end-product docs to the FreeBSD project. I am a professional UNIX (AIX/SOLARIS) programmer and fairly clueful kernel source peruser and tweaker, fully capable

RE: implementing a fs on a raw partition

1999-07-08 Thread Alton, Matthew
If someone in the FS dept. would draw up a broad outline for FS implementation I hereby volunteer to flesh it out thoroughly and donate the end-product docs to the FreeBSD project. I am a professional UNIX (AIX/SOLARIS) programmer and fairly clueful kernel source peruser and tweaker, fully capabl

RE: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Alton, Matthew
Yes, quite. > -Original Message- > From: Christoph Kukulies [SMTP:k...@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de] > Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:59 AM > To: hack...@freebsd.org > Subject: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? > > Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are

RE: serial ports

1999-05-26 Thread Alton, Matthew
Well, the serial devices are not typically used for TCP traffic, but you should look at ioctl(3), read(3), write(3), socket(3), bind(3), listen(3), send(3), recv(3) for starters. The tty devices are treated as files. Remember, in UNIX everything is a file unless it isn't. The ethernet cards, which