Re: Replacing GNU grep revisited

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Costello
are traversed. > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&selm=xzp7kchblor.fsf_flood.ping.uio.no%40ns.sol.net A workaround for this problem in the meantime would be to use find -type f | xargs grep EXPR Just FYI. -- Chris Costello

Re: Request for info from SiS chipset owners

2003-02-02 Thread Chris Costello
:3:0: class=0x02 card=0x0a141019 chip=0x09001039 rev=0x90 hdr=0x00 ed0@pci0:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x802910ec chip=0x802910ec rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 none0@pci1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x03001039 chip=0x03001039 rev=0x90 hdr=0x00 -- Chris Costello<[EM

Re: Anyone like obscure stdio problems?

2002-12-29 Thread Chris Costello
Placing a pointless fgetln() after the first fseek() will make this obvious: if (fseek(rp, (long)(i / 2), SEEK_SET) != 0) err(1, "fseek on rp"); (void)fgetln(rp, throwaway); fgetln() will set __SMOD for rp's buffer and

Re: troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd))

2002-07-21 Thread Chris Costello
works in DocBook and applying their own `custom' stylesheet. -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| Diagnostics are the programs that | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | run when nothing else will. | +---+---+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Should the stat(2) man page contain information on test macros

2002-03-15 Thread Chris Costello
the most logical choice. -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| Performance is easier to add than clarity. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || +---+

Re: chowning problem or somthing...

2002-03-12 Thread Chris Costello
testuser4 have the same UID? -- +---+-----+ | Chris Costello| The computer is mightier than the pen, | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the sword, and usually, the programmer. | +---+-+ To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: Assembler programmer needed

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Costello
those posting resumes/job offers: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Followups to this thread should be sent to that list. -- +---+-------+ | Chris Costello| You depend too much on computers for information.

Re: FreeBSD.org SIte

2002-01-20 Thread Chris Costello
That is, if you're serious about helping. :) -- +---+------+ | Chris Costello| Computer and car salesmen differ in that | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the latter know when they are lying. | +---+

Re: jail.c.patch (allowing to use hostnames when invoking jail(8))

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Costello
, hstrerror(h_errno)); } in = *(struct in_addr *)hp->h_addr_list[0]; This makes the call to inet_aton() unnecessary (and really shortens the code!). -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| It is easier to change the specificatio

Re: head(1) speedup

2001-11-02 Thread Chris Costello
inter into the stdio internal buffer, while fread has to copy out N times into a separate buffer (also from the read buffer). -- +---+------+ | Chris Costello| ...now t

Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report

2001-10-17 Thread Chris Costello
-- and remember, the deadline's coming up in just two days! -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| That does not compute. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: My contributions to the close a PR campaign

2001-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
different layout be too great (which I doubt, as it seems very few people actually use it.) -- +-------+-+ | Chris Costello| Aibohphobia:| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The fear of palindromes | +---+-+ To Unsu

Re: Question about pthread

2001-10-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Wednesday, October 03, 2001, Chris Costello wrote: >Because you're passing the _address_ of `confd', not the Er, sorry, `connfd' _is_ the address to a value (it's a pointer). But you're still passing an address, and I believe what I p

Re: Question about pthread

2001-10-03 Thread Chris Costello
pointer, and then dereference it (and assign its value to `fd'). -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| CCIT

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-18 Thread Chris Costello
I've got work that's a lot like the patch you attached to this message; when I can merge some of the latest changes, I'll have a diff at least to KSE_PRE_MILESTONE_2. Give me more time and I'll have a diff to HEAD. -- +---+----

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
und, or no * matching VFS is loaded */ } -- +---+-------+ | Chris Costello| You depend too much on computers for information. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | +---+---

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-08 Thread Chris Costello
d be closed across exec() calls (this is all setugidsafety() and its hackish is_unsafe() companion are used for as far as I can tell). -- +---+--------+ | Chris Costello| Let the machine do the dirty work. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
, or a copy thereof? -- +---+------+ | Chris Costello| Why do we want intelligent terminals | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when there are so many stupid users? | +---+--+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, September 07, 2001, Chris Costello wrote: >But is it necessary that you really use those defines? The > idea is not to use them globally. Perhaps getnewvnode() should > get the string from `mp->mnt_stat.f_mntfromna

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
ewvnode() should get the string from `mp->mnt_stat.f_mntfromname', instead... -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| As far as we know, our computer has never | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | had an undetected error.- Weisert | +---

Re: tiny patch to pkg_add

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Costello
verted to a `void *' pointer where necessary. -- +---++ | Chris Costello| Save energy: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Drive a smaller shell. | +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Costello
n file:/etc/passwd. -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| All the simple programs have been | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | written, and all the good names taken. | +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, August 31, 2001, Joseph Mallett wrote: > Check out ftpfs in the HURD. That might be a better way to do it. No, I think that we're better off with NFS... -- +---+--+ | Chris Costello| Help support helpless

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Costello
lo0 can't help speeding things up...) to file system accesses? -- +-------+-+ | Chris Costello| It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | +---+

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Chris Costello
e sleep 5 etc. Why does this need to be implemented in a separate executable? -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| God didn't create the world in 7 days. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids...

2001-08-17 Thread Chris Costello
means telnetd, too. -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| Wasting time is an important part of life. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || +---++ To Unsubsc

For review: Patch to ps(1) old-style option parsing.

2001-08-15 Thread Chris Costello
The problem is that the function ps.c:kludge_oldps_options() capitalizes any 't' at the end of the option string, regardless of whether it's a flag or an option argument. The patch attached to this message should fix the problem. -- +---+--

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
ted using setjmp/longjmp, and storing stack pointers and the like in thread-specific data structures. -- +---+--------+ | Chris Costello| A bug in the code is worth two | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | in the documentation. | +---+

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
) etc. all do the same thing for the same reasons. -- +---+-----+ | Chris Costello| Advanced design:| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Upper management doesn't understand it. | +---+

Re: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report, June 2001

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Costello
e idea to keep it in www, actually. Do you mean formatted using DocBook, or just HTML? -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| All new: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The software is not c

Re: FreeBSD Monthly Development Status Report, June 2001

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Costello
e up not knowing if > there will be more; anybody else have an opinion on this? I'm thinking perhaps it should be made into part of the doc project. I'm in the middle of converting it into a DocBook article and will post a URL to it soon. -- +---+

Re: FreeBSD

2001-06-07 Thread Chris Costello
't belong there, either. To get FreeBSD sent to you, please order it from http://www.FreeBSDMall.com/. Thanks. -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| Anybody can win, | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | unless there

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
this, please? What does finding a root utility that writes to /tmp have to do with umasking a file? (I've found it rather difficult to umask files in the past.) -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| I just found the

Re: fdescfs oddities

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Costello
ven't heard anything about it in a good while. -- +---+------+ | Chris Costello| I do not fear computers. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I fear the lack of them.

Re: fdescfs oddities

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Costello
ing really wrong with the /dev/fd and /dev/tty you have without fdesc as far as you or your programs are concerned, but the implementation (as opposed to interface) is a bit of a hack. -- +---+---+ | Chris Costello| CCITT -

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
ing /var and /dev. Similar techniques could be used for > booting off of cdrom. I'm assuming that there's some data he wants to permenantly store on a disk. But yes, just like the live FS CDROM, MFS can easily be used. -- +---+--

Re: Running FreeBSD off of CDROM

2001-01-24 Thread Chris Costello
sk. It's the same basic model the FreeBSD 'emergency CD' uses--however, the FreeBSD emergency CD mounts an MFS partition for you, instead. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this works out perfectly for you, for whatever reason you need such a setup. -- +-------+

Re: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Chris Costello
g that our own /bin/sh needs. Should somebody make this into a port, that's one less dependancy. -- +---+------+ | Chris Costello| Herblock's Law: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If it is good,

Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, December 22, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for your attention. > > Next month I'm giving a talk about the evils of SSH. If you don't know anything about it, why do you claim it's evil? -- +---+------+

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
You can still check for the pointer if you wish, before you call free(). -- +---+-+ | Chris Costello| Backups? We doan *NEED* no | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | steenking baX%^~,VbKxNO CARRIER | +---+

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
ve--; return; } else { ifree(ptr); . . . That's how it's worked since before FreeBSD came into being. It wasn't implemented the same, but it behaved the same. -- +---++

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
in the kernel. (malloc and free come to mind, obviously.) -- +---+----+ | Chris Costello| Don't stop at one bug. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || +---++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit:src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
(data); 2. The C standard dictates that free() does nothing when it gets a NULL argument. The other two are just extra clutter. -- +---+-----+ | Chris Costello| This system will self-destruc

Re: thr_sleep() and thr_wakeup()

2000-12-01 Thread Chris Costello
r > POSIX threads and AIO, neither of which use this facility. Comments? Agreed. Also, this is UNIX International thread namespace (thr_*). -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Your e-mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage. `-

Re: Problems with pthread

2000-10-19 Thread Chris Costello
ng program: nod > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x280747b8 in pth_cancel_point () from /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so.13 > (gdb) This is GNU Pth, not FreeBSD pthreads. Use the ``-pthread'' cc(1) switch to link to the FreeBSD threads library.

Re: We need your old laptop for a committer...

2000-10-09 Thread Chris Costello
. The difference, however, is that Poul-Henning Kamp has made a structured, formal, properly punctuated request, for somebody who has already _given_ time and effort to the FreeBSD Project. You're just making randomly capitalize complaints because you want a free laptop. -- |Chris Costello <

Re: "find /proc"

2000-10-05 Thread Chris Costello
On Thursday, October 05, 2000, void wrote: > Why does find(1) operate non-recursively in /proc? Because the procfs_readdir() code does not report directories as the correct type (DT_REG as opposed to the proper DT_DIR). -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |TRAPEZOID - A d

Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Costello
available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc-dtype.patch, Documentation for it is available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/ all in one page: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/article.html |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE REMOVE

2000-08-26 Thread Chris Costello
the list because hopefully someone else reading it and wanting to unsubscribe won't make the same mistake. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has no excuse. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread Chris Costello
e no such plans for that type of downgrade. If the software you need to use externally calls nonstandard C library functions consider porting the library and linking it manually, or fixing the software: cc -o my-hurd-program -nostdlib -lglibc ... or something along those lines. -- |Chr

Re: limit processes that a user can 'see'

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Costello
users completely out of the main system, including root's processes, just use jail. This sets up more or less a 'virtual machine' you can use to effectively act as another running FreeBSD system. ``man 8 jail''. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL

Re: 2 inetd's with 2 nics

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Costello
the hostname corresponds to the jail(8) environment. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 |passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-08 Thread Chris Costello
. help! gcc -E -dM - < /dev/null -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Use free-form input where possible. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Costello
style, this will only hide warnings caused by not including . malloc(3) returns void * and does not need to be cast. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Last one out, turn off the computer! ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: malloc to arrays?

2000-08-01 Thread Chris Costello
256 * n); > > and have an error: > > ra-sum.c:386: cast specifies array type > *** Error code 1 Try this: u_int32_t *tcphash_haddr; tcphash_addr = malloc(sizeof(*tcphash_addr) * 256); You shouldn't be casting malloc and I don't see any reason to use *

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Costello
> all of which must have a couple of worker threads). Yes. We do have SysV shared memory support. Try ``man -k ^shm'' and ``man -k ^sem''. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Printed on 100% recyclable phosphor. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Howto profile my code?

2000-07-31 Thread Chris Costello
e extra code to write profile information suitable for the analysis program gprof. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |There are always at least two ways to program the same thing. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kevent()/kqueue() in a multithreaded environment

2000-07-28 Thread Chris Costello
a threaded kevent() could be implemented. I don't think kqueue() would block. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 |passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.-- T. Cheatham `---

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-28 Thread Chris Costello
n > a MP). I thought he had seen the term 'kernel threads' in the context of FreeBSD before, likely in the context of kthread_create() in the kernel. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |May the force be... your umbrella! - Plucky Duck `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD,Posix,Linux Threading - Are they really useable?

2000-07-27 Thread Chris Costello
ions to our scheduler which simply have not been made. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Save energy: Drive a smaller shell. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Chris Costello
ctl. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Programmer: One who is too lacking in people skills |to be a software engineer. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Costello
would like to point out that if anyone does this, my advance suggestion is that you differentiate between data and audio CDROM. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Swap read error. You lose your mind. `- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-16 Thread Chris Costello
phk or Julian, but I'd like to add that it should probably integrate the fdesc code. Especially since I'm working on (and am soon going to hopefully commit) code to do more relatively major repairs to fdesc[1]. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |[1] Removing al

Re: dev to name

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Costello
On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Fox Anderson wrote: > Hi. > How can i find out the name of device file by device major/minor? The devtoname() function. ``man devtoname'' -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To define recursion, we must

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Costello
eferably reusable) functions that perform one task. Setting a tab width to something other than 8 would tend to break formatting for people with normal editors. Just try viewing bsd.port.mk in vi with default settings and not seeing clutter. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Random a

Re: struct proc

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Costello
all, curproc is the current running process. You should be using p for the process that called my_syscall. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |It wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. - Wilkes, 1949 `---

Re: Korn shell STDOUT

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, June 20, 2000, gerald stoller wrote: > Anybody know how I can easily change the STDOUT to be unbuffered? Using setbuf(3). (``man setbuf'') -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |You had mail, but the super-user read

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Chris Costello
le systems, mount(2) attempts to load a module for the file system, if one exists. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Debugger: A tool that substitutes afterthought for forethought. `--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: utmpx, this is gonna hurt...

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Costello
On Monday, May 15, 2000, James Howard wrote: > How about adding the utmpx as required by SUSV2? It would make writing > programs that need to talk to utmp/utmpx a lot simpler. Yes? No? I agree that this would be a good idea. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Performanc

Re: What do people think of maybe using the sourceforge software?

2000-05-08 Thread Chris Costello
> project infrastructure? Comments? I'm just playing with this stuff a > bit myself right now and will say more once I actually know more about > it. It's my opinion that there's no need for more "polish." Currently what we have, CVS and the CVSWeb HTTP front-end, s

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Costello
olling magic to which Jason Evans referred occurs in some interesting > code in uthread_kern.c, though. _thread_sys_read() is the real read(2) syscall. They're renamed to ``_thread_sys_SYSCALL()'' for the purpose of reimplementing them in a thread-friendly manner, as you see wi

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Costello
on-blocking read until all the data can be copied and then allows the thread continue, thus blocking only the calling thread. At least that's what the source code tells me. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |I smell a wumpus. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RFC: Patches for mounting fdesc on /dev/fd and general cleanup

2000-04-21 Thread Chris Costello
g data and incorrect cloning. I'm looking for some review and feedback on this. Thanks. Documentation: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc/ The patch: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/fdesc.patch -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Make input easy to proofread. `--

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Chris Costello
var > > It is not true however, that on all Bourne shells and derivatives that you > can do: > > export var=foo However, on all _POSIX_ shells, ``export var=foo'' is valid, if I remember correctly. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A closed mouth gat

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-03-31 Thread Chris Costello
n for my taste. ``set -o'', ``alias'', and ``export'' are all portable. A few options for ``set -o'' may not be, but otherwise they are. Where did you get the idea that the first two were FreeBSD-exclusive? -- |Chris Costel

Re: Dreamweaver 2

2000-03-25 Thread Chris Costello
can it. Also are there any programs for > generating cracks, passwords and so on Where did you get this address as a place to get cracks for Windows software? This mailing list is for general FreeBSD technical discussion. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |All the simple programs have

Re: Where is pci_intr_establish() & _thread_sys_read()?

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Costello
se a lot of syscalls are reimplemented within libc_r for reasons that are kind of obvious (directly calling the read syscall from one thread would block all the other threads in a process). So _thread_sys_open() == open(2), _thread_sys_read() == read(2), etc. I don't know about pci_intr_establ

Re: empty lists in for

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Costello
d (`i' is the source release). I believe you'll get an error or nothing if it's ksh88. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Know Thy User. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: empty lists in for

2000-03-05 Thread Chris Costello
1003.2 Shell and Utilities Language Committee." -- http://www.kornshell.com/info/ And on a FreeBSD-compiled binary of the real AT&T ksh code: $ echo ${.sh.version} Version M 1993-12-28 i $ for i in ; do echo $i; done $ --

Re: DeCSS

2000-02-21 Thread Chris Costello
On Monday, February 21, 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > You're one of those people who follows instructions, are you? You're one of those people who out words, aren't you? :) -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Design simplicity: It was developed

Re: Loadable Code Modules?

2000-02-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Sunday, February 13, 2000, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > i was wondering if FreeBSD had a kind of like DLL capability? Yes, try ``man 3 dlopen''. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |The programmer's national anthem is 'AAA

Re: ls: alpha - numeric sorting

2000-02-10 Thread Chris Costello
> (haven't tried to optimize). FreeBSD already supports an `-n' option, so you probably don't want to go with that. Probably if it does go in, both systems should use -N or something else unused, if only for consistancy amongst the two. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DreamWeaver Crack 3.0

2000-01-30 Thread Chris Costello
discussing programming on FreeBSD and for FreeBSD, and I'd imagine linux-admin is for discussing administration on Linux systems. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A list is only as strong as its weakest link. - Don Knuth `-- To

Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Is this disk by any chance a SCSI drive? No, the message discusses errors coming from the wd(4) driver. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Today's assembler command : EXOP Ex

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-14 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured > that they had the obvious meaning. :-) BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |I'm sorry my Karma ra

Re: your mail

2000-01-13 Thread Chris Costello
ave to do with the FreeBSD operating system? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Software is mind work. Having the right frame of mind is essential. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: moving CVS repository

2000-01-09 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000, Nate Williams wrote: > find /local2/CVSfoo -name Root -print | fgrep CVS | > perl -pi -e 's#/local#/local2/#g;' ^ Perhaps in this space you meant to type ``xargs''? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If you don't

Re: where you.....

1999-12-22 Thread Chris Costello
mers, and thus they know already all about the internals. There's a book that's going to be written at some point about FreeBSD internals, I've heard. But that will probably be a long time from now. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Where the system is concern

Re: Anybody know if there is any way to make ports use different workdir?

1999-12-18 Thread Chris Costello
ut later. Additionally, a /tmp/rtfm-0.2.tar.gz is left behind. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |State-of-the-practice: What we can do with the money you have. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Upper <->Lower in shell script

1999-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
cho $var abc -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Random access is the optimum of the mass storages. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Upper <->Lower in shell script

1999-12-17 Thread Chris Costello
upport this) and bash have a typeset command. To convert something to all upper-case is surprisingly easy: typeset -u variable Example: $ typeset -u f $ f=abc $ echo $f ABC -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? > Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? Add a statement like printf("somefunc() being called!\n"); to the top of the function you want to '

Re: incoming directory on freebsd.org

1999-12-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: > I have a patch to FreeBSD but I am not sure where to upload this file. Can > someone point me to the directory? Use send-pr and include it there. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If it was easy, the hardware people would tak

Re: Linux ioctl not implemented error

1999-11-30 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Wait... vmware for linux works under FreeBSD now??? or it just runs > freebsd??? It runs on FreeBSD. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |What do computer engineers use for birth control? Their p

Re: A file with holes - a bug?

1999-11-22 Thread Chris Costello
stdio or the open/read/write syscalls. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 |passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.-- T. Cheatham `-

Implementing ioctl to set MAC address -- question.

1999-10-31 Thread Chris Costello
x27;ve added the case statement for "SIOCSIFMAC" (probably to be renamed) to net/if.c and dev/ed/if_ed.c (which is the card I'm using) as well as net/if_ethersubr.c. Are there any other files that need to know about the ioctl or am I going about this the wrong way entirely? -- |Chris Costel

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Costello
you can't directly call a class method without an object. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |A closed mouth gathers no feet. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: module names

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Costello
ame ideas are a little off. What would Vinum go under? I also disagree with your usage of ``emu_''. I would prefer ``compat_''. -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer. `--

Re: Unquoted mail (was: aio_read kills machine)

1999-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
> that it didn't happen to everybody. Some MTA between him and me (his mail server, calldei.com's mail server, or my fetchmail) has quoted it on my message. > Greg -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |State-of-the-art: What we could do with enough money. `-

Re: aio_read kills machine

1999-10-11 Thread Chris Costello
want to copy it > before running the program. > > Thanks. > > Chad -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |TRAPEZOID - A device for catching zoids. ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

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