'door' calls

1999-11-24 Thread Anthony Kimball
What is the closest approximation to a Solaris door call in FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-09 Thread Anthony Kimball
: Unfortunately, when you take setuid programs into account, it gets : far less clear: Reasonable cases could be made for having the owner : either the real or effective UID. The case for effective seems quite clear to me, but I can't see the case for real UID. What is it? To Unsubscribe: se

Re: Running unattended (ifo FFS thread)

1999-10-29 Thread Anthony Kimball
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : : >The problem is that 'fsck -py' ignores the 'p' and will fsck every time, : >even if it's unneeded. This takes ages for me. I believe I submitted a PR : >with a 'fix' to fsck. : : According to the man page, fsck -y and fsck -p are two distincts commands. Here's a pa

Re: [mount.c]: Option "user"-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Anthony Kimball
> vs> I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in >[snip] > vs> http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff > vs> http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff. > You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if > the sysctl varia

Re: [mount.c]: Option "user"-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Anthony Kimball
> vs> I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in >[snip] > vs> http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff > vs> http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff. > You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if > the sysctl vari

Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs

1999-08-19 Thread Anthony Kimball
: From: "Daniel C. Sobral" : Default for FreeBSD is async [meta]data and sync data. Sync and Async : modes go full sync/async for both metadata and data... : > Just a btw, you seem to be able to set sync and async on a filesystem : > at the same time. What gives? : Beats me. Logically, then,

Re: async v. sync v. default mode on ufs

1999-08-19 Thread Anthony Kimball
: From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Default for FreeBSD is async [meta]data and sync data. Sync and Async : modes go full sync/async for both metadata and data... : > Just a btw, you seem to be able to set sync and async on a filesystem : > at the same time. What gives? : Beats me

Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-18 Thread Anthony Kimball
: And what happens accross NIS domains? UID = SSN? Oops -- it's too late for RFC 666. Besides, that's Bill, not Steve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-18 Thread Anthony Kimball
: And what happens accross NIS domains? UID = SSN? Oops -- it's too late for RFC 666. Besides, that's Bill, not Steve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

predictability in an unpredictable world

1999-07-15 Thread Anthony Kimball - High Performance Computing
If there were a mechanism whereby one could opt out of the SIGKILL, most if not all of the complaints would go away. SIGDANGER would suffice, but even a rude hack would do in a pinch, such as the one included below (untested). If you mmap real disk instead of sbrk'ing, and use this procfs contro

predictability in an unpredictable world

1999-07-15 Thread Anthony Kimball - High Performance Computing
If there were a mechanism whereby one could opt out of the SIGKILL, most if not all of the complaints would go away. SIGDANGER would suffice, but even a rude hack would do in a pinch, such as the one included below (untested). If you mmap real disk instead of sbrk'ing, and use this procfs contr

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-02 Thread Anthony Kimball
Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... Now THAT is cool. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-02 Thread Anthony Kimball
Lizard has a tetris game built in for those long waits... Now THAT is cool. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

reviews

1999-06-03 Thread Anthony Kimball
Peanut comment: As long as you get all the reviews done before a snap, I don't see any reason not to pipeline the process by letting commits procede before review. They can be backed out/revised, after all. In commercial projects this is usually considered bad when you have external dependents,