Re: dot.core ??

2013-02-15 Thread Mike Bristow
omly (e.g., if you run it with the same input it does not fail all the time). Cheers, Mike -- Mike Bristow m...@urgle.com http://www.urgle.com/~mike/CV/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailin

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-09 Thread Mike Bristow
/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [root@cheddar ~]# -- Mike Bristow m...@urgle.com ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-08 Thread Mike Bristow
the POLA, we should add an option, as Daniel > mentioned above? To output the CIDR? Non-contigous netmasks are legal in IPv4. What do you do if someone adds the CIDR flag but the netmask cannot be represented in CIDR notation? Cheers, Mike -- Mike Bristow

Re: readahead(2) - Linux

2008-03-06 Thread Mike Bristow
Julian Elischer wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Ed Schouten wrote: * carlos neira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is there an equivalent of readahead syscall in linux , for freebsd ?. i was looking at http://preload.sourceforge.net/ , and it needs this . Maybe a mmap(), followed by a madvise()? Or

Re: 'periodic daily' memory usage

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Bristow
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: An entirely different issue is why named uses so much memory... does anybody know of a way to specify how much memory named may use for its cache? Something like : options { directory "/etc/namedb"; pid-file"/var/run/named/pid";

Re: Using get_system_info() - Obtaining the CPU states...

2007-05-29 Thread Mike Bristow
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:24:27PM +0530, Suresh Kumar J wrote: > I learnt that the "top" command uses the get_system_info() function > for printing the CPU state detail. But I could not locate the source > code of this function. Could anybody help me in locating the > header/source file in whi

Re: Library (ab)use in kernel land

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Bristow
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:40:50PM -0700, Brian O'Shea wrote: > That being said, there are a few analogs of the standard C > library functions in the kernel, such as printf, strcpy, bcmp, > qsort, etc. You can find sources for them in src/sys/libkern/ > with prototypes in the src/sys/sys/libkern.h

md(8) panic

2004-05-12 Thread Mike Bristow
or, and reject, such requests, but should md(8) allow people to create such devices? Or am I being silly in even asking for it? Cheers, Mike -- Mike Bristow - http://www.urgle.com/~mike/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who is the most famous woman in America? Squash.

Re: Network pipes

2003-07-25 Thread Mike Bristow
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:51, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:48:23PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Another approach would be to add a new option to SSH > > so that it could encrypt only the initial authentication, > > then pass data unencrypted after that. Th

Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Bristow
[ Reply-To set to me: This is probably off topic for all of the lists: all of the ones I read, anyway. ] On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:03:53AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote: > > 2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning > > behind the decisions? > > They differ in most technical area

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-23 Thread Mike Bristow
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:36:44PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Sat 2002-06-22 (00:06), Chris Dillon wrote: > > There is always the option > > to use SSL, which is my preference, but unfortunately neither SSL nor > > SASL have widespread IMAP client support yet. > > Most IMAP clients I k

Re: In-Kernel HTTP Server (name preference)

2002-02-21 Thread Mike Bristow
through to the userland web server, and cache the results. This is the approach that Sun took (except they used a STREAMS module, rather than an accept filter). -- Mike Bristow, embonpointful, but not managerial, damnit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-18 Thread Mike Bristow
lso bet that it'll be available in a FreeBSD-release before I'd trust data to a port of JFS or XFS. [1] If you've missed it, the basic idea is: for $fs in $all_filesystems ; do if is_a_softupdate_filesystem($fs) ; then fsck $fs & else

Re: chroot

2001-10-08 Thread Mike Bristow
with root privilages. While it's clearly running in a chrooted enviroment, you can still do Very Bad Things. (This, of course, assumes that you have write permissions somewhere on the same file system as a suid program. This is probably true on many systems) -- Mike Bristow, seebit

Re: OpenBSD's FFS/dirpref/softupdates improvements

2001-04-19 Thread Mike Bristow
#x27;s tests, documented here:" > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dirpref&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=2&; > seld=905073910&ic=1 > > Does anyone know anything about this ? Commited to -current about 10 April. I suspect that Jordan would shoot someone

Re: A novel idea....

2001-04-04 Thread Mike Bristow
n a kernel and a bunch of loosly-associated utilities that a bunch of differnet people have used to create a dozen or so OSes from. -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: A novel idea....

2001-04-04 Thread Mike Bristow
reeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html >and create a filesystem in that. That's a very good idea. Performance would probably suck rocks. OTOH, if you suddenly need to install X and so need another 200M, growfs (available in -current only) might enable you to grow your backing file, t

Re: waiting for new files in a directory

2000-12-27 Thread Mike Bristow
Note that a filename you get from readdir is (indirectly) from the user, and unlink counts as dangerous. Basically, you need to "untaint" $fname in OnePass before using it in the unlink call; this is fairly trivial to do, and if you can't work it out from perlsec(1), feel free to

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Bristow
n async it's not hard to use it in threaded apps even if it isn't). Thirdly, adns is GPLed, which means you'll have a hell of a job getting people to include it into the base system. -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: MD5 usage in the kernel.

2000-04-20 Thread Mike Bristow
ng time critical, or does it only appear in the moral equivilent of LCP? -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Bristow
here's a fairly good set of source we could use as a base which I've got lieing around on a HDD somewhere. I got it from cvsup3.uk.freebsd.org; you might have heard of them... > I think it is time to think to something else NetBSD ? OpenBSD ? Linux > (which one?) If I were yo

Re: ntop

2000-02-07 Thread Mike Bristow
27;m wondering what sort of feature I'm missing > here. /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-04 Thread Mike Bristow
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Mike Bristow wrote: > > > > True; but linux has support for a bigger variety of soundcards > > (my Win98^H^H^H^H^H^HEverQuest machine now has a Live! in it; supported > > under Linux but not under FreeBSD

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-03 Thread Mike Bristow
SD. I may be talking rubbish, though ;-) [1] SoundCards; funky USB magic to talk to your digital camera; that kind of thing. -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: moving CVS repository

2000-01-09 Thread Mike Bristow
Wilko (who is not a cvs guru by any standard ;-) Me neither, there's probably a better method (I'd guess that you can frib some the files in CVS/ in the working direcrory, but I can't experiment or read the docs for assorted reasons right now) -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large

Re: cdrom speed adjustment ioctl

1999-11-29 Thread Mike Bristow
rol (slow down!) the speed that a cdrom will operate at. SYOPSIS cdspeed YADDA yadda yadda yadda FreeBSD 3.3 November 29 19991 -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' GK/RT0011 - Essential readin

Re: Class C hack instead of ifconfig aliases

1999-10-20 Thread Mike Bristow
$?=255&256+$!-$_;$!=$_;++$.%4-2? $;:$,.$;,",1SUB#$.<-#$?"}map{ord}split//,pack"b*",unpack"B*","@ARGV$/";print `echo "$,$;,1<-#$.@_$;READ OUT,1$;GIVE UP">,.i;ick ,.i;./,`' Mike Bristow.\ Just Another Hacker http://sig.jellybaby.net/ ce

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Bristow
tor for Unix. * version 1.1.3, for Netscape Navigator 1.1 and newer. michaelb@singsing:~$ -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large GK/RM0501 Nobody's ugly after 2AM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: More press

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Bristow
awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 18,579 [text/plain] 0K -> .. [100%] 11:41:08 (29.55 KB/s) - `remote.c' saved [18579/18579] micha...@singsing:~$ head -3 remote.c /* -*- Mode:C; tab-width: 8 -*- * remote.c --- remote control of Netscape Navigator for Unix. * version 1.1.