RE: Force dynamic linking?

2000-01-20 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 20-Jan-00 Nils M Holm wrote: > Is there any way to force the creation of dynamically linked executables > using the ELF linker (like 'ld -Bforcedynamic' in the a.out version)? > > I have to link against static libs, but I want to use dlopen() etc. I think you have to link against the lib

RE: PCMCIA-ATA/USB support for SanDisk/Digital Cameras

1999-12-23 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 23-Dec-99 John W. DeBoskey wrote: > Basically, it appears to be a combination of PCMCIA-ATA > support melded together with USB. I have a Kodak DC-240.. There is a program floating around called ophoto which talks to it over USB, and there is another (more featured) which talks to it via

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Jamie Bowden wrote: > :Umm.. welll I'd like to know to enable sub folder support in it then.. > :Haveing multiple accounts on different machines would be nice too (then it > :could do what xfmail can) > In 'Incoming Folders' type 'a' and it will ask you for the server name to > add.

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Jamie Bowden wrote: > :fetch mail from INBOX). > Pine does IMAP just fine. I used to use it to read mail on box a, with > incoming accessd via box b, and storage on box c. Now I just forward > everything to one account and procmail it all. Umm.. welll I'd like to know to enable

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Jamie Bowden wrote: > :Umm.. welll I'd like to know to enable sub folder support in it then.. > :Haveing multiple accounts on different machines would be nice too (then it > :could do what xfmail can) > In 'Incoming Folders' type 'a' and it will ask you for the server name to > add

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Jamie Bowden wrote: > :fetch mail from INBOX). > Pine does IMAP just fine. I used to use it to read mail on box a, with > incoming accessd via box b, and storage on box c. Now I just forward > everything to one account and procmail it all. Umm.. welll I'd like to know to enable

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 23-Aug-99 Brian Somers wrote: > > I think its a good idea, and hey if people object it can always be an > > option > > like -> > > option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING > Not quite - developers have to deal with the mess that it would cause > - Matt for example says: Well, I think it would be a usefu

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 23-Aug-99 Brian Somers wrote: > > I think its a good idea, and hey if people object it can always be an > > option > > like -> > > option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING > Not quite - developers have to deal with the mess that it would cause > - Matt for example says: Well, I think it would be a usef

RE: Device Drivers on 3.2-RELEASE

1999-06-30 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 30-Jun-99 Ernie Elu wrote: > From reading various mail lists I understand that from the 3.0 kernel > onwards the drive interface to the kernel changed a lot, not doubt this is > why I can't get th driver to compile. > > Can someone point me to a reference on the changes, or is there some

RE: Device Drivers on 3.2-RELEASE

1999-06-30 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 30-Jun-99 Ernie Elu wrote: > From reading various mail lists I understand that from the 3.0 kernel > onwards the drive interface to the kernel changed a lot, not doubt this is > why I can't get th driver to compile. > > Can someone point me to a reference on the changes, or is there some

RE: Implementation of mmap() in FreeBSD

1999-06-28 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 28-Jun-99 Ladavac Marino wrote: > [ML] It is possible to handle these cases in VM code, by > trapping on any access to the partial page, and allowing only those > accesses which are withing the originally requested range. Performance > would suck without end, though. Well it would

RE: Implementation of mmap() in FreeBSD

1999-06-28 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 28-Jun-99 Ladavac Marino wrote: > [ML] It is possible to handle these cases in VM code, by > trapping on any access to the partial page, and allowing only those > accesses which are withing the originally requested range. Performance > would suck without end, though. Well it would o

Re: "restricted" kernel threads implementation from NetBSD via n

1999-06-28 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 28-Jun-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: > I think we desparately need a kernel threads implementation. *Any* > implementation, so we can start messing around with it! Even if it isn't > the one we eventually choose. I don't suppose someone could post an explanation of how kernel thre

Re: [Re: [Re: coarse vs fine-grained locking in SMP systems]]

1999-06-26 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 26-Jun-99 Jesus Monroy wrote: > The part I'm lost on is "can change things from under it". > From under what? I assume the statement means "it" as being > the code or driver. So the question begs, what things can > change? The assumption that changes is that your code ass

Re: [Re: [Re: coarse vs fine-grained locking in SMP systems]]

1999-06-26 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 26-Jun-99 Jesus Monroy wrote: > The part I'm lost on is "can change things from under it". > From under what? I assume the statement means "it" as being > the code or driver. So the question begs, what things can > change? The assumption that changes is that your code assu

Re: [Re: coarse vs fine-grained locking in SMP systems]

1999-06-26 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 26-Jun-99 Jesus Monroy wrote: > > An approach like that can't possibly be sufficient if code has been > > written with the assumption that only interrupt-like events or > > blocking calls can change things from under it. There is quite a bit > > of code in FreeBSD that relies on this. > C

Re: [Re: coarse vs fine-grained locking in SMP systems]

1999-06-26 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 26-Jun-99 Jesus Monroy wrote: > > An approach like that can't possibly be sufficient if code has been > > written with the assumption that only interrupt-like events or > > blocking calls can change things from under it. There is quite a bit > > of code in FreeBSD that relies on this. > Ca

Re: [usb-bsd] Re: USB scanners?

1999-06-23 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 23-Jun-99 Nick Hibma wrote: > What kind of devices do you see showing up? > Would be a great help to get some idea of what is needed for the various > devices. For mice the support is pretty much cooked, but for example > keyboards sometimes have an extra mouse port. Well I have access to

RE: Obtaining client host IP before accept()

1999-06-18 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 18-Jun-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Will the IP address of the client host ever enter buf[] if the > accept() is _not_ uncommented? > > I don't need portability, since this is for use within the FreeBSD inetd > exclusively. Well if you CAN'T do it in FreeBSD, is there an OS we can

DHCP, arp and de0

1999-06-13 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
Hi, I have tried getting my system to use DHCP on my local network, but I'm having trouble. If I don't use DHCP everything works fine, but if I use DHCP I get the following messages appearing in my log file when I use ESD, and try and ping my LAN IP. Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arplookup 127.0.0