Mike Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is the pre-zeroing of malloc'd memory documented somewhere? By my reading
> of the malloc manapge...
malloc() does not pre-zero memory, but it hands you memory which has
been pre-zeroed by the kernel unless you've used it before. Your test
program makes
Mike Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a feeling that I'm missing something really obvious, but I'm having
> trouble understanding why the following program:
> [...]
> Never prints anything but "0"'s.
Because the kernel always hands processes pre-zeroed pages.
> I ran less up to my hw.p
"Darren Pilgrim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So yeah I gueuss my fob is busted or funky. The CAM errors are "just" the
> drive saying there's no media present, so maybe the device doesn't support
> the commands necessary to report disk capacity? Is there a way to educate
> CAM about this so the
"Darren Pilgrim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Attached as named above. The logs show the da0 DISK class in the GEOM
> config, but no MBR class entry.
Take a closer look at geom-logs. It shows a slew of CAM errors.
There's something wrong with your fob, or possibly (but not likely)
with the USB
"Darren Pilgrim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> GEOM doesn't automatically read the partition table and create the
> slice device [...]
Yes, it does. When the umassX provider shows up, GEOM immediately
tastes it and creates geoms for the individual slices.
If it really doesn't on your system, try
Chad David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My company built a tool a few years back for creating a bootable cdrom
> based on a running host FreeBSD 3/4 system, which promptly got shelved and
> forgotten.I recently had to update it for FreeBSD 5 and thought that
> perhaps the community at large could
Attila Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I would have a given amount of money and I would like to make bind
> 9 go faster (both in the terms of caching and authoritative
> performance) on FreeBSD, could I find the appropriate people for the
> job?
Did you ask Nominum?
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"Aurel Bodenmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My FreeBSD box is giving me quite a hard time, it panics from time to
> time (normally after a few days uptime), I suspect it has something
> to do with this cheap SATA controller I'm using (Promise SATA150
> TX4).
The SATA150 TX4 is not cheap, at le
...only checks if nfs_server_enable *or* nfs_client_enable is true
before trying to start rpc.statd and rpc.lockd; but rpc.lockd won't
work if the nfsclient module compiled in or loaded. I can't make up
my mind whether to hack rpc.lockd to kldload nfsclient, hack
/etc/rc.d/nfslocking to require nf
Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With cheap DVD players down to about $50, just buy another
> player and set it to Region 2.
Uhm, why would you rather have two players locked to different regions
than a single unlocked player?
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Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am really doing rather well here; I got dvd copying to work via
> 'k3b'. Now, I want to go for broke, and try for the one I've been
> after for years, which is converting a region==2 dvd to a region==1
> dvd (Britain to US). I have a dvd taht you can't
Aziz KEZZOU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am wondering if I can use c++ iostreams inside the kernel ?
> After all the code : cout << "Hello world!" << endl;
> ends accessing the stdout just like : printf("Hello world!\n"); right ?
There is no stdio in the kernel.
> So if I could compile my KLD
Marc Olzheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ah, I was reading the SUSv2 page:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/write.html
>
> instead of the POSIX version.
POSIX == SUSv3 these days.
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Rex Roof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running a FreeBSD6 machine current as of a few days ago and I'm
> working on a gvinum configuration, I couldn't find any place where it
> referenced gvinum on startup so after fussing around with the rc
> system a little, I wrote an /etc/rc.d/gvinum script
"Steven Hartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the feedback seems very strange that sshd was the first thing the
> kernel killed off; so unless it was actually at fault ( would be very strange
> )
> it would have been one of the smallest not largest processes.
> The box has runs severa
ISTR that there is a semi-standard way of obtaining the system (or
motherboard) manufacturer and model from the BIOS or CMOS on PC
clones, but all I can find right now is the BIOS copyright string
starting at fe00:000e. Can anyone here refresh my memory?
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Vladimir Terziev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support
> in FreeBSD?
The ICH6R is an Intel MatrixRAID chipset and is fully supported in
-CURRENT.
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Craig Boston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Um, wouldn't setting the password on a system in which the BIOS offers
> no ATA security support render the system unbootable? The BIOS would
> be unable to read the boot sector without first unlocking the disk...
You are assuming that there is only one
"klowd9 -" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> First of all i am dead serious about learning.
Apparently not.
> Secondly, where i come from, $60 is alot of money. And in the spirit
> of open source and free software, charging $60 for a book is
> ridiculous. I want to code free software and contribute t
Frank Mayhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Um, well, actually for a reference work, that's a reasonable price. You
> might be able to pick up a copy of the 4.4BSD demon book used, I guess.
It would be nearly useless. The latest edition is well worth its
price.
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Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> re_probe(): vid 10ec did 8169 hwrev 1000
That's an 8169SB, which is supported in -CURRENT. Try the attached
patch. I'll try to get it merged before 5.4-RELEASE.
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Index: sys/pci/if_rlreg.h
=
"Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:30, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > thanks for the suggestion! I tried that and it didn't seem to change
> > anything: the relevant output of pciconf -lv is still
> Try if_rl.ko/rl0
No, if_rl will not attach to 8169 cards.
Andrew,
Stas Myasnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone tell me what is GEOM basically? I know that there's geom@,
> but I think it's about concrete realisation.
It's an abstraction layer for dealing with disk transformations
(partitioning, RAID, encryption etc.)
> I know that it's a layer betwee
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some values can be specified like this:
>
> hw.physmem="1G"# Limit physical memory. See loader(8)
>
> That doesn't seem to work for MAXDSIZ.
I have a patch for this which will go in as soon as I'm done testing
it.
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Seán C. Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How does this version look?
Needlessly complicated. I'd just copy the entire environment into
malloc()ed space the first time setenv() or putenv() is called.
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Seán C. Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While playing around with setenv(), I noticed that it can leak memory
> when a program overwrites a variable with a larger value. unsetenv()
> will just leak memory. All of this is documented in their man pages.
>
> The latest PR on this (two PR's ment
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The quotations seem a bit messed up, so I don't know if Peter Jeremy or
> Kathy Quinlan wrote the above paragraph. Whoever the author was though,
> it may be worth to note that C99 *does* allow single-line comments
> delimited by //.
which leads to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/src/gai% cat gai.c
#include
#include
#include
#include
int
main(void)
{
struct addrinfo hint, *res;
memset(&hint, 0, sizeof(hint));
hint.ai_family = AF_INET;
hint.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
hint.ai_protocol = 0;
if (getaddrin
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One item that always irks me, what's the actual name of the disk images.
> There is a reticence to answer this on the website, cause they're trying
> to make one answer do correct duty for all the arches, but what they've
> accomplished is managing to compl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When the line is there, the compiler is probably smart enough to
> > realize that 'x=y; y=x' is (usually) a no-op, so it optimizes away
> > both statements.
> Wrong. The compiler is free to optimize awa
David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005, Jacques Fourie wrote:
> > unsigned char *p = NULL;
> > unsigned char v = 0x55;
> > /* ... */
> > p = (unsigned char *)ip_output;
> > /* ... */
> > v = p[0];
> > p[0] = v;
> > /* ... */
> When the line is there, the compiler is probab
Justin Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was looking into getting an Adaptec 2410SA SATA (Serial ATA RAID
> card). I just wanted to ensure this is supported by FreeBSD.
>
> I looked at the hardware list, and there is a card listed under the aac
> driver as a SCSI device, but with the 2410SA d
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