Re: FireWire for kernel hackers

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >Quoted from 00README in >http://people.freebsd.org/~simokawa/firewire-20020412.tar.gz > As you know, IEEE1394 is a bus and OHCI supports physical access >to the host memory. This means that you can access the remote >host over firewir

Re: anyone familier with bktr driver?

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >I'd like to add support to the mplayer/mencoder software (which is turning out >to be a fantastic tool, can playback and encode to all sorts of formats, from >VCD's, to DVD's, to AVI files, to DIVX, etc..). There is support for the >video4linux driver, as wll

Re: Severe I/O Problems

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >There appear to be a lot of changes that went into the filesystem and I/O >code between 4.3 and 4.4. A little over a week ago I upgraded my 4.3 box >to 4.4-STABLE and immediately I started having I/O slowdown. I do >development and QA on a program that is ve

Re: KEvent doesnt return and KEvent sample troubles

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >>* Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010502 14:29] wrote: >> > I've been looking to start using the KEvent system and I've been >> > experimenting with it. However I've been having several problems, with >>my >> > own code as well as samples from http://www.

Re: Netscape and shared objects.

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >:02pm ghast /home/jamie %netscape >ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXt.so.6.0" >4:02pm ghast /home/jamie %runas ldconfig -r | grep libXt.so >77:-lXt.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 >I'm curious, is there something special about netsape th

Re: Staticaly allocated buffers in library. Is it correct?

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >: >:So, if I send problem report with my patches, I should inherit usage of >:staticaly allocated buffers. >:Am I right? >: >:milunovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >:> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: known pthread bug?

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:59:37AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> * Paul D. Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010204 23:23] wrote: >> > Are there currently any known bugs with pthread_mutex_init >> > and pthread_cond_init returning 0, but pthread_cond_wait >> >

Re: IDE CDRW

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Just a simple question, FreeBSD doesn't support/emulate any IDE CDRW? See burncd(1). I know for a fact that it works with: acd0: CD-RW at ata1-master using WDMA2 Don't think you can use IDE CD/RW with any programs tha

Re: Shared Memory

In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >Could anyone enlighten me on how to set the amount of shared memory? If you mean the wretched System V IPCs, the parameters are in LINT. Search for "SHM". >I'd like that info for FreeBSD 2.2.2, 3.x, 4.x The parameters only have descriptive comments in 4.2,

Re: Other Linux stuff...

In local.freebsd-current you write: >> "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: >> > >> > If memory serves me right, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> > >> > > So, from a pure >> > > ELF layout point of view, both shared objects and executables are the >> > > same. But a shared library is not guaranteed to be executable

Re: RFC: /dev/console -> /var/log/messages idea/patch

In local.freebsd-current you write: >< said: >> Another particular thing I remember was that some syslog-challenged >> daemons whine on /dev/console long after /etc/rc has finished. >They can try, but by the time they do the console has already been >revoke()d, so they no longer have access to

Re: profiling a daemon process

In local.freebsd-hackers you write: >I am trying to profile a daemon process, but no gmon.out >file is ever created on FreeBSD. When I brought my code >to Linux, I managed to get the graph profile file. >First, I compiled everything with the -pg flag, as I would >any other program. Then, I run t

Re: Need quick help.

In local.freebsd-hackers Doug White wrote: >On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, petro wrote: >> I tried to change smth in my interfaces and now receive such message in >> /var/log/messages >> /kernel: arp: IP_number is on rl2 but got reply from MAC_ADDRESS an ed1 >Your networks are broken. It appears the two

Re: Critical (or equivalent) section in Userland?

Karl Pielorz wrote: >Warner Losh wrote: >> If advisory locks won't work (and they almost always will for things >> like this), then you could walk the process tree. For all processes >> that aren't suspended or yourself, send a SIGSTOP, keep a list. >I don't think advisory locks will work - th

Re: LD_PRELOAD odities / Documentation?

In local.freebsd-hackers you write: >Hi All, >I'm working on some code that runs fine on Linux, but not under FreeBSD... >Trying to port the code is proving to be a pain... >The code is a 'wrapper' / 'shim' that's meant to be LD_PRELOAD'ed before an >executable... I've gotten everything to comp