Re: File trees: the deeper, the weirder

2006-10-29 Thread Matt Emmerton
uwk" state) while the vnlru kernel thread does it's thing (which is to recycle vnodes.) Either the vnlru kernel thread has to work faster, or the caller has to sleep less, in order to avoid this lock-step behaviour. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton _

Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-28 Thread Matt Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "Steve Kargl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Randall Hyde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:10 PM Subject: Re: Return value of malloc(0) > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:41:05PM -0700, Randall Hyde wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to port my c

Re: Config(8) dependency checking - first patches

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Emmerton
ccessary, but didn't have any examples. Now I do. Thanks! -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Config(8) dependency checking - first patches

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
read, parse and use dependency information; however, no dependency meta-data has been generated yet. Notes and patches against 7-CURRENT are at http://www.gsicomp.on.ca/projects/freebsd/configdep.html. Comments and suggestions appreciated. Regards, -- Matt Emm

Re: Named requests filling up T1

2006-01-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
n for these queries to be directed to your DNS server from the Internet. If the answer to 2) is NO, then there's no reason for these queries to be directed to your DNS server from the Internet. Source IP filtering is likely your best option, although it doesn't help

Re: Using pkg_add fetch only

2006-01-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
p lots of jails each being > identical. > > Clearly pkg_add does not provide this option. Even if it would, it would > declare some dependencies fulfilled since packages are installed in the > hostsystem already. > > Anyone having an idea here, besides rewriting pkg_a

Compiling kernel/modules without INET?

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
quot;do the right thing", but I'm sure I'm wading into murky waters. Any guidance would be appreciated. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problem about libnet on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-31 Thread Matt Emmerton
urrent development version of libnet (net/libnet-devel), by renaming the ether_addr structure to libnet_ether_addr. The net/libnet port should be marked BROKEN because of this issue (I've opened a PR) and folks should use libnet-devel instead, until the net/libnet port is updated to a newer

RFC: porting NetBSD fsdb enhancements to FreeBSD

2005-10-27 Thread Matt Emmerton
n/fsdb/fsdb.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25&f=h Is this something that folks would like to see on FreeBSD? I've got RELENG_5_4 and RELENG_6_0 boxes here in my office so I can whip up the patches and do some testing in short order. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton _

Re: vmstat reporting incorrect cpu usage

2005-06-04 Thread Matt Emmerton
happen for anyone else? (Mabe someone running 5.4 can test > this?) The first line is the average since the system was last booted; all other lines are instantaneous. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: isp driver not 64 bit?

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Matt Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, Nov

Re: isp driver not 64 bit?

2004-11-29 Thread Matt Emmerton
u built & run a kernel compiled with "options CAMDEBUG" ? This may provide more insight into where things are going wrong. -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-25 Thread Matt Emmerton
> This may be a dumb question, but if you make a cpio tape archive from > data on an SCO system (HTFS filesystem), you can still restore the data > off the tape to another system, like FreeBSD with a UFS filesystem, > right? This should work. If you run into any issues they will be incompatibilit

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-10-07 Thread Matt Emmerton
on it from 1998 so it has been sitting in a box > for awhile). However, the card is very old too. Any ideas? > > -john "medium error unrecorvered read error" really sounds like a phsycial medium (drive) error. If the controller

Re: hacking SCO....

2004-09-27 Thread Matt Emmerton
I believe DAT is what you want to tell SCO. -- Matt - Original Message - From: "John Von Essen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:33 PM Subject: Re: hacking SCO > Well, > > I was able to get a boot/install floppy made. Then install a fre

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matt Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matt Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Avleen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, Sept

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Emmerton
of "good, fast, cheap -- choose two". There's nothing preventing us from implementing all three and leaving the choice of which two to use up to the end-user. -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mount name length limit (MNAMELEN)

2004-08-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
de, they never store a "char blah[MNAMELEN]" in their structures, but rather, a pointer to that data element (in the name cache, I think). Thus, they are free to change the size of the element without affecting the majority of structures that use it. -- Matt Emmerton ___

Re: Is this LOST??

2004-05-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
386. > why keep libc(5-current) support 80386? The 5-current kernel *does* support 80386 -- you have to recompile your kernel to add 80386 support first. -- Matt Emmerton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Adventures with gcc: code vs object-code size

2004-03-20 Thread Matt Emmerton
ch a minor code-change can POSSIBLY cause such a > huge change in resulting object file... I also wonder if this same > issue pops up in other programs, too. I don't know why the code bloats so much on i386, but I do question the use of strcmp() for a single-character compare. Someth

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Emmerton
front of me) that are Pentium- or Pentium II-class machines that cannot boot from CD-ROM or PXE, thus floppies are my only choice. Thus, I am genuinely interested in the effort to maintain working floppy images and can help out -- but not to the point of being "maintainer" yet. However, I

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Emmerton
ng people and waiting for feedback (and getting absolutely none), I just stopped working on it. It's these kinds of impasses that prevent people who have the skills and time from actually contributing to the project. There really isn't any use opening PRs and creating

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
e submitter can't be found or cannot reproduce the situation. I think the problem is that too many commiters are focused on their own corner of the project, and there's nobody left to handle all the "general" sort of PRs. -- Matt Emmerton _