to a denial of service
situation whereby the original creators of files could be deprived of
inodes in the quota system, and blocks too if they removed one of their
files without checking if anyone else had it linked first. It was a
multiuser system that hosted undergraduates, so obviously t
bits and pieces, the tendency to take
configuration (static and dynamic) and shove it into an opaque database
I personally find problematic: compare the ISC and solaris dhcp servers,
for instance.
enable/disable sound interesting, however.
jan
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pending on the FS
implementation to ensure you are writing over the original data blocks
anyway.
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You see what happens when you have fun with a stranger in the Alps?
expressed in C.
I think it'd be interesting to try to address this but "I don't think
you want to start from here".
jan
* for the non-C++ buffs, "Resource Acquisition Is Initialisation": using
automatic variables of types with destructors that clean up the
un
, and device nodes. I'm
> probably not th eright person to answer questions about the layout itself.
Looks like it is: see /usr/include/ufs/ufs/dinode.h
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Theoremhood is positively
So I'd second the
question; I don't buy that aesthetic argument.
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Solution: (n) a watered-down version of something neat.
__
u'll probably
even find one on your system:
/usr/share/doc/psd/15.yacc/paper.ascii.gz
That probably ought to sort you out.
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Q: What's yellow and equ
nosecond sleeps
between transmits; drift due to HZ was correctable because I knew the
average throughput I was after.
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http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/denim/
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"Roger Penrose can never be convinced that this sentence is true."
(If he doesn't get the joke,
#x27;ve not found anything that this breaks (except a
gazillion symlink race exploits).
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Goedel would be proud - I'm bot
ded to support NSS &co. The alternative
(lookupd) approach was raised and seemed to find favour, but I don't
know if that tactic has been adopted. FWIW I think it makes a lot of
sense.
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Jason Andresen wrote:
> Very few compilers accept code with formatting markup beyond
> ^Ls and TABs. You can't compile a Word document.
As we plunge completely off topic, there is (was) at least one literate
programming system that grokked winword.
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ing in the Unix Environment (APUE) and
Unix Network Programming (particularly volume 1); both by the late W.
Richard Stevens. Well worth the money (and you'll probably receive
several recommendations along the same lines).
Cheers,
jan
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space
(physical or virtual) is often not sufficient.
jan
* "You've plenty of resources" and "an infinite number of threads are
bound to make fair progress" seem to be a summation of "the java way"
:-)
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jan Grant wrote:
> ...
> > Sorry if this is a newbie question:
> >
> > I'm looking to tune (amongst others) kern.ipc.semmni; looking at the
> > code (sys/kern/sysv_sem.c) the value seems p
right bit of the source tree to be looking through.
Alas, it's about 20 years since I last looked at Forth :-(
Cheers,
jan
* ok, some _more_ boottime magic
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got access to all files, coz there is no
> way to setgroups() if I am non-root and maybe only demon needs access to all
> files - child needs only access to files owned by one group.
This breaks the (rare) case of using group membership for negative
access control.
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> Sometimes ago, I heard someone wanted to write a fs example
> (article? howto?) just to teach how to write a real fs under FreeBSD.
Terry mentioned a wish to get a DDJ article out of it; I suspect he's
lacking CFT though...
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020307 08:12] wrote:
> > Something odd seems to be happening; I'd appreciate "look here"
> > suggestions. I suspect mmapped pages aren't being flushed but gawd alone
> >
op workstn most of the time).
Note: this doesn't result in ultimately broken behaviour, because those
pages are eventually flushed on orderly shutdown. I'm just curious as to
why sync(2) isn't forcing this.
Cheers,
jan
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
> Why isn't Eiffel (one of those pure OOL's) used more? BECAUSE IT ISN'T
> C. Got it?
I thought it was, because you can't write an event loop without using
(infinite) recursion :-)
jan
PS. This is all very amusing.
talgia man
(which the incredible power of remembering when this was all fields)
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(Things I've found in my attic, #2: A hundredweight of pornography.)
To
-stable with nary a hitch (I use it for testing remote hands-off
upgrades and for hacking around with bits and pieces like rc.d
jiggery-pokery).
I've had -current running on it in the past, but not looked at this
recently due to a CFT suddenly being less C.
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Very neat.
[forgive flippancy]
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote:
> The screensaver isn't bad, and it gets pretty trippy when you focus at
> infinity and let the 3D-Illusions (TM) effect set in.
Argh! I've just gone blind.
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l be vigorous resistance to incorporating your proposed changes.
Not if there's a
cron_dtrt="NO" # Get cron to do the right thing
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Greg Black wrote:
> Jan Grant writes:
>
> > > Better still would be /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh called automatically
> > > with parameter stop. To do so, insert
> >
> > This is all nice (BTDT) although I find the *.sh pattern quite anno
to use
the SysV-style S* and K* patterns - that means you get to control the
order of startup _and_ shutdown (which might need a different sequence).
jan
PS. Yeah, an all-singing, all-dancing subsystem mechanism would make all
of this moot, but this method is cheap and simple, and already here.
-
The original question still stands, and I'm quite interested in hearing
an answer.
I think Ryan's looking for an equivalent to Solaris' F_FREESP fcntl; I'm
not aware that one exists in FBSD - right?
jan
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> help.
You'll notice a lot of DNS traffic from your machine if you do
this. Include -n at least!
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Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to
source isn't so much
of a hardship. But it makes the path f least resistance the installation
of a better alternative :-)
jan
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