Re: 64 bit endian routines

2003-02-28 Thread Mike Barcroft
ns in both aligned and unaligned access forms. After these functions > are there, I'd like us to unify use of them and remove driver-private > versions. Sounds good, though would be more appropriate unless they're MD. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: 64 bit endian routines

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Barcroft
x27;m not sure if there would be an advantage to moving the geom byte ordering functions to (I guess phk didn't either). Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: fork rate limit

2002-02-03 Thread Mike Barcroft
e solved administratively. Obviously he is intending his changes to be committed; hence, the patches will be applicable to -CURRENT. This is an area where FreeBSD is lacking. I can't understand why you wish to stifle his work. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: The Hurd

2002-01-01 Thread Mike Barcroft
Ashutosh S. Rajekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > GPL conflicts with FreeBSD's artistic license. [...] FreeBSD is actually licensed under a much less restrictive license, the BSD license. See any source file out of src/gnu for details. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Uns

kldload(2) family (was Re: loadable aio)

2001-12-31 Thread Mike Barcroft
calls _kldload(2). o kldload(8) uses kldload(3) o kldunload(8) uses kldunload(2) The main advantage of this design is that it allows a Unix programmer to utilize it. :) Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: loadable aio

2001-12-31 Thread Mike Barcroft
; /* XXX: this doesn't work. */ %%% If that's not black magic, I'd like to know what is. I'd like to refer you to the kldload(2) manual, but unfortunately it doesn't document how kldload(2) works. :( Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: loadable aio

2001-12-30 Thread Mike Barcroft
o make me cringe. The way in which it locates a module to load appears to be black magic. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Adding si_fd to struct __siginfo ...

2001-12-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
cussion mistakenly took place on a FreeBSD mailing list intended for administrative-only issues, so it isn't publicly available on our end. Luckily, a Samba mailing list was on the CC line. You should be able to find it on the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives circa September 2001. Best regards,

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-20 Thread Mike Barcroft
ver, No mixer control > with any app that I have tried; aumix, xmms, etc. (which all worked before > the sup) You're half way there. Now, just add the name/model of your sound card, when it broke, and you've got a PR. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-20 Thread Mike Barcroft
Paul Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My soundcard on my lappy has been broken since 4.4. And to be > brutally honest, it's really starting to piss me off. Enough to open a PR? Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &qu

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-20 Thread Mike Barcroft
4.4. Care to elaborate? Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Barcroft
sition of Webmin by Caldera, all past and future versions of Webmin are available under the BSD license." Perhaps Caldera would be interested in releasing this gem into the open source community. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New feutures...........

2001-12-14 Thread Mike Barcroft
Rafter Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. I hope that in the furture the FreeBSD developers will rewrite the system in C++. I think you're alone on that one. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers&

Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?

2001-12-07 Thread Mike Barcroft
Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Barcroft writes: > : 386 support has been removed from -CURRENT. -CURRENT also doesn't > : support 486SX's out of the box, one is required to load a kernel > : module from the loader

Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?

2001-12-06 Thread Mike Barcroft
in a cracker jack box should be able > to click the 'use an obscene amount of memory to make everything > faster' button, without having to understand the 300+ things he > could tune in a kernel, or loader.conf, or whereever else you can > set things. Great, I'd love to s

Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?

2001-12-06 Thread Mike Barcroft
n removed from -CURRENT. -CURRENT also doesn't support 486SX's out of the box, one is required to load a kernel module from the loader if they need FPU emulation. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Barcroft
Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:51:02AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > > Jim Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Duh... right. OGS..(Old Guy Syndrome). I actually just did a cvsup to > > > RELENG_4_4 and it didn

Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Barcroft
ecurity fixes only. Consider using -STABLE if you require additional improvements. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Please commit this port: ports/31188: New port: www/orion-cur rent

2001-11-12 Thread Mike Barcroft
e to -java and one to -hackers. > > I'm open to other ideas on how to get this port committed. The best advice I can give is to just be patient. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Please commit this port: ports/31188: New port: www/orion-current

2001-11-12 Thread Mike Barcroft
riate discussion for -hackers so you're unlikely to find a response here. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-28 Thread Mike Barcroft
er > > If I didn't want syslogd to log something, I would not have it in > syslog.conf. syslog.conf would require fields for user:group and permissions in order for that to work, otherwise syslogd would have no idea how you want your log files created. Best regards, Mike B

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Mike Barcroft
Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > I assume you mean "as soon as the configuration file is modified"? > > > That would be a big viol

Re: syslogd and kqueue

2001-10-26 Thread Mike Barcroft
ation dance goes something like: > > mv log log.0 > touch log > kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` > gzip log.0 > > I'm suggesting that the "kill" could be left out if syslogd got the same > smarts as "tail -F". I recommend using newsyslog(8) f

strnstr(3) - New libc function for review

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Barcroft
gards, Mike Barcroft strnstr.diff Add a new libc function, strnstr(3), which allows one to limit the number of characters that are searched. This is especially useful with file operations and non-NUL terminated strings. Index: lib/libc/string/Makefil

Re: corrupted 'w' output

2001-09-06 Thread Mike Barcroft
. 1.68 (and Rev 1.36 of Makefile)? You will ofcourse have to relogin to see whether the w(1) output has changed. BTW, I can't reproduce this problem locally. Is there any special about your local configuration, particularly regarding PAM? Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Mike Barcroft
? Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [RFC] whois(1) - recursive IP searches

2001-06-26 Thread Mike Barcroft
Mike Barcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would appreciate comments on the following patch: > http://testbed.q9media.net/freebsd/whois.20010622.patch > > It does the following: > > o Implement recursive IP Address searches based on the results of > a query to A

Re: [RFC] whois(1) - recursive IP searches

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Barcroft
you want to find out who owns an IP block, you want to type 'whois (dotted-quad)' without having to know which country it was assigned to. Similarly, if you want to know who owns a .com, you're not going to be required to know which registrar they chose. whois(1) is an information gathe

[RFC] whois(1) - recursive IP searches

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
e expected results. [Requested by joe and phk] o Update documentation to reflect this. o Clean up some grammar nearby. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: whois(1) patch for review

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
this work. From looking at your patch, your using an old copy of my work. The newest one is available at: http://testbed.q9media.net/freebsd/whois.patch and will be committed very-shortly-now(tm). Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message