Re: c99 project

2013-02-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 02/04/2013 08:48 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > Is the following page still useful? > > Would there be any objection to me removing it? > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html We are still working on complex and long double functions. ___ free

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 09/17/12 11:14, Lorenzo Cogotti wrote: Il 17/09/2012 17:42, Poul-Henning Kamp ha scritto: In message , Lorenzo Cogotti writ es: Hi, I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official supported graphical environment. We already do: It's called "X11" :-) (sending back

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-05 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Find some mailing lists that have nothing to do with FreeBSD, and barrage them with spam promoting FreeBSD. :-) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

Re: Odd RAID Performance Issue

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Sanders
window. > > Not realistic but illustrative, imagine 5 1 second NCQ operations > terminating in the 1 second window. The current code will calculate the > duration as 5 seconds, dividing by 1 will yield 500%. > > Thanks > > > On 02/13/2012 11:51 AM, Ivan Voras wrote:

Odd RAID Performance Issue

2012-02-13 Thread Stephen Sanders
We've an application that logs data on one very large raid6 array and updates/accesses a database on another smaller raid5 array. Both arrays are connected to the same PCIe 3ware RAID controller. The system has 2 six core 3Ghz processors and 24 GB of RAM. The system is running FreeBSD 8.1. The

Re: Getting PRs fixed (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle)

2012-01-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 01/18/2012 06:57 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: Andriy writes: And dealing with PRs is not always exciting. Neither is brushing your teeth or cleaning the kitchen, but most of us manage to do them at least occasionally. Part of being a grown up. Instead of looking for a stick to hold over developer

VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?

2011-09-06 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi all, Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of network interfaces that are offered by VMWare & Virtual box. I know that on some Linux VMs I run, performance went from 20MB/s to 30MB/s to an NFS server which I swicthed to the virtio network interfaces. Ste

Best GB Nic for 8.2?

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi all, Am currently using an onboard GB nic, on my main fileserver (8.2 64bit, AMD, 8GB mem) which is seen as nfe0 (Nvidia, basically). Is there a better one available? I have a one lane PCIe slot and any number of PCI slots available. Stephen

Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Stephen Hocking
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 25/07/2011, at 11:03, Stephen Hocking wrote: >> Now this is all very interesting, but I would like to be able to map >> that back to a /dev/adXpY device entry, so when I offline them I can >> then go to

Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Stephen Hocking
to a /dev/adXpY device entry, so when I offline them I can then go to the appropriate physical disk. I thought that gpart show -r might help, but the numbers emitted from that don't match up. Looking at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does anyone have an idea?

Re: Building kernels broken under AMD64 Releng 8

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Hocking
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:19 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: >            Garrett Cooper writes: > : On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Stephen Hocking > : wrote: > : > Hi all, > : > > : > Am noticing the following when attempting to build a kernel: >

Building kernels broken under AMD64 Releng 8

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Hocking
lieve it's related to the COMPAT_IA32 option being replaced (I haven't built a kernel since the beginning of the month). Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers T

Re: package building failure irritation

2010-02-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
t needs to be tabs not spaces and the beginning of lines.) #!/usr/bin/make -f PACKAGES?=/usr/home/stephen/packages-8-amd PKG_DBDIR?=/var/db/pkg PORTSDIR?=/usr/ports PKG_LIST!=ls ${PKG_DBDIR} all:${PKG_LIST:C+(.*)+${PACKAGES}/All/\1.tbz+} .for target in ${PKG_LIST} ${PACKAGES}/All/${t

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

2010-01-05 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Victor Sudakov wrote: But to hell with this. I started the topic because I think something is wrong with SVN to CVS export, which upsets cvsup and causes "Checksum mismatch" errors. Is anybody willing to look at it? I second Victor's request. ___ f

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

2010-01-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Doug Barton wrote: I was not going to reply on this thread at all, but the amount of random speculation has now reached a pathological level. The spurious new line at the end of a file has nothing to do with svn, it is an artifact of how the file was originally transferred to the cvsup mirror. T

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

2009-12-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I would like to introduce a program into the base called "screw-the-whole-system." It would do something like this: while true; do \ echo "Please wait while your system is being destroyed..." sleep 10 done ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Common interface for sensors/health monitoring

2009-08-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Julian Elischer wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alexander Leidinger [090822 10:44] wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:04:10 -0700 Julian Elischer wrote: The purists won out in that one by shouting loudly and screaming about socialized

Re: Common interface for sensors/health monitoring

2009-08-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alexander Leidinger [090822 10:44] wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:04:10 -0700 Julian Elischer wrote: The purists won out in that one by shouting loudly and screaming about socialized healthware. Consequently we have 47 million unsupported devices. You forgot to tell

Re: c question: *printf'ing arrays

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
ple, the printf command demands that you tell the printf command what are the data types of the data you give to it. So I think that the kind of long winded print command you are advocating is the correct way to do it. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@fre

Re: the web site

2009-03-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
RW wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:40:30 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote: I just had to see if I could locate if there was a gnome project page by looking at the FreeBSD web pages. Why don't you try that yourself? I'll tell you, it's really FAR from being obvious. I'm just saying, even if folks don't

Re: RFC: small syscons and kbd patch

2008-12-05 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Nate Eldredge wrote: int bangbang(int x) { return !!x; } int ternary(int x) { return x ? 1 : 0; } Stylewise, I prefer int notzero(int x) { return x!=0; } ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Calling malloc from a signal handler

2008-09-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
D-7.x? If so, should the man page of "sigaction(2)" be upgraded to say this? Thanks, Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Recommend literature for beginner programer

2008-08-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jingshao Chen wrote: Hi, Since you have been unix admin for a few years, I guess you probably have some experience with C programming. This book is more advanced, but it is a really good one. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment: Paperback Edition (2nd Edition) http://www.amazon.com/Adv

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Rob Lytle wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Lytle wrote: Hi Kevin, The sysinstall dependency problem has existed for 10 years, so I doubt that its unique to me. It has occurred in every installation I have ever done.

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Rob Lytle wrote: Hi Kevin, The sysinstall dependency problem has existed for 10 years, so I doubt that its unique to me. It has occurred in every installation I have ever done. I use portupgrade for all ports. i strongly disagree with using ports for huge packages. I don't have the time to

Re: time used by a thread

2008-07-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Sergey Babkin wrote: I want to use getrusage to see how much time a program is using. But this is a multithreaded program, and I just want the time taken by that particular thread! I know this info must be available somewhere, because top -H seems to provide it. But getrusage seems to give

time used by a thread

2008-07-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I want to use getrusage to see how much time a program is using. But this is a multithreaded program, and I just want the time taken by that particular thread! I know this info must be available somewhere, because top -H seems to provide it. But getrusage seems to give the total rusage for t

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Lothar Braun wrote: What about having two utilities for the installation process? Something like a very small (non-gui/non-X) version of "sysinstall" that just installs a base system and only has the functionality to - partition/label a disk - configure the network (if needed for installation

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-02 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
uires switching around 40 times, then that is bad. But it should be something easily fixable, without greatly modifying the rest of the process. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hacke

Re: AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)

2008-06-30 Thread Stephen Clark
Niki Denev wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile it on 6.2 and get make: don't know how to make cryptodev_if.h. Stop ??? where is this file? Thanks, Steve Have you applied the 6.2 patch included in the late

Re: AMD Geode LX crypto accelerator (glxsb)

2008-06-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Niki Denev wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Patrick Lamaizière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:41:35 +0200, Patrick Lamaizière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Hello, I'm trying to port the glxsb driver from OpenBSD to FreeBSD 7-STABLE (via the NetBSD port). " The glxsb d

Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-18 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hi, Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (preferably PCI-E) card with 3D acceleration? Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Small change to top

2008-06-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
top doesn't get TIME right for threaded processes. How about this small change: --- usr.bin/top/machine.c-orig 2008-06-12 23:06:08.0 -0500 +++ usr.bin/top/machine.c 2008-06-12 23:06:51.0 -0500 @@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ prev_pp = pp; } els

Re: nvidia working?

2008-01-14 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can a

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Kip Macy wrote: I just want to add my 2 cents, that my recent experience with FreeBSD MP has been extremely positive. I tend to use highly CPU bound MP programs, typically lots and lots of floating point operations. It used to be that Linux beat FreeBSD hands down - now

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 02:41:35PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Robert Watson wrote: In FreeBSD 8, I expect we'll see a continued focus on both locking granularity and impr

Re: Before & After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
s for its performance improvements - I should add that Linux didn't do at all well at taking advantage of hyperthreading, running at the same speed as with 2 threads.) Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

FreeBSD & Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)

2007-07-26 Thread Stephen Hocking
-pluggable disks under the control of GEOM? Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problems with +CONTENTS being messed up by pkg_delete -f

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:56 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: If you "pkg_delete -f" a package and then install the port again (but after it has been bumped up a version), then the +CONTENTS of ports that require the original port will be incorrect. This

Problems with +CONTENTS being messed up by pkg_delete -f

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
eramaproto-1.1.3 @comment DEPORIGIN:x11/xineramaproto A further benefit of this approach is that one could also accurately reconstruct the +REQUIRED_BY of the port just reinstalled - right now this is left empty and thus inaccurate. What do you guys think? I know I could write the code

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:46:11 -0500): I appreciate that most people won't have this problem, but it has bitten me. After you have made and installed a port, but don't clean it, and then made a bunc

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:46:11 -0500): I appreciate that most people won't have this problem, but it has bitten me. After you have made and installed a port, but don't clean it, and then made a bunc

Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-17 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
nts, I'll submit this as a PR as well. Stephen --- bsd.port.mk-old 2007-07-17 19:31:08.0 -0500 +++ bsd.port.mk 2007-07-17 19:29:16.0 -0500 @@ -5485,7 +5485,9 @@ done ACTUAL-PACKAGE-DEPENDS?= \ - if [ "${_LIB_RUN_DEPENDS}" != " " ]; t

CPUTYPE in general - was Re: Which CPUTYPE for a dualcore Xeon on AMD64

2007-06-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
of difference to performance? Right now I have no CPUTYPE set at all. Thanks, Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Using shell commands versus C equivalents

2007-06-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
ant to do a lot of profiling and see where the speed bottlenecks really are before writing lots of code. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Bakul Shah wrote: Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex Mk/*.mk what is is ne

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Roman Divacky wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:34:24AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:52:16PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make index" and pkg_v

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
written. The only possibility I see of making it go a lot faster is a complete redesign, e.g. my just in time idea for processing variables. Stephen Just in time (jit), if I remember correctly, is a term used by java interpreters which compile the byte code into machine code!!! Perhaps this

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Ivan Voras wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make index" and pkg_version and things like that. So for example, in pkg_version, it calls "make -V PKGNAME" for every installed package. Now "make -V PK

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:52:16PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make index" and pkg_version and things like that. So for example, in pkg_version, it calls "make -V PKG

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Hartmut Brandt wrote: Having done a great deal of rewriting of make some two years ago I can tell you that even a small change to make is a tough job testing-wise: run all the combinations of !-j and -j on all architectures and run the change through the port-building cluster. That's a warning

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
dback, either of the form of "this won't work," or of the form "I will do it," or "I have tried to do this." Best regards, Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org m

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:52:16PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make index" and pkg_version and things like that. So for example, in pkg_version, it calls "make -V PKG

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index"

2007-05-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Mon, 28 May 2007, Michel Talon wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith said: I suggest rewriting "make" so that variables are only evaluated on a "need to know" basis. or "I have tried to do this." Of course a lot of people have thinked about it, and quickly

Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
o throw this idea out there to get some feedback, either of the form of "this won't work," or of the form "I will do it," or "I have tried to do this." Best regards, Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: sin()/cos()/tan() for kernel code? '_ 'a

2007-02-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Eugene M. Kim wrote: Hello all, I am writing a mouse device driver for my Wacom tablet (Intuos 2 9x12). The tablet comes with a mouse and I managed to get valid

Re: sin()/cos()/tan() for kernel code? '_ 'a

2007-02-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
method, I think, but I suspect that the look up table will be so much easier to program, and negligable extra space overhead. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubsc

Re: top delay value

2007-01-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
is seems to have been fixed with more recent versions. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Reading in real time from a file without pipes

2007-01-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Matthew Hudson wrote: Mon Dec 11 09:08:37 PST 2006 c0re dumped wrote: I wonder if is possible to read data from a certain file without using a pipe. Let me explain: I have a process already writing messages to a logfile. I want to read all written data (without neither stop nor interfere norm

Re: "Syncing cpus" on a multi-cpu, dual core system

2006-12-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
it is closer to 250% cpu usage. The other thing I have noticed is that when I split jobs using threads so that I can use several processors, the speed up to the program is far less than one might expect - indeed sometimes it even gets slower. Stephen

Inconsistent snapshots?

2006-07-08 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
sjr MODE=100600 SIZE=18099 MTIME=Jul 8 22:57 2006 FILE LINKUP IN SNAPSHOT CLEAR? no ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups CANNOT ADJUST NUMBER OF FREE BLOCKS: -8 CONTINUE? [yn] n Othertimes when I run the same commands, I get a consistent snapshot. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, -SR -- Steph

Re: PCI Express graphics reliability/functionality in 6.1?

2006-06-08 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
upgrade. So what I am saying is that the problem might be motherboard specific rather than graphics card specific. Stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: state of growfs?

2006-05-23 Thread Stephen Bartlett
er* and install 6.1 from scratch. That's just my tale - Stephen -- Stephen Bartlett President, Bartlett Software, Inc. http://www.bartlettsoftware.biz/ pgpHhvN5qi0eu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Files in C.

2005-05-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
might have hesitation over Vol 2, but only because it covers stuff that you might not need. He writes extremely well. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen McKay
r to non-blocking. Right? Personally, I have no qualms being non-POSIX compliant in a good cause. Wouldn't being non-POSIX on this issue be easier? Hmm. Should this be on -arch now? Stephen. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen McKay
On Thursday, 13th January 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On Wed, 2005-Jan-12 23:54:38 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: >>a) Rewrite file descriptor handling in libc_r so it does not set O_NONBLOCK >>on tty file descriptors unless it is in the foreground. I don't know how >>hard

Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-12 Thread Stephen McKay
Specification). Should tail be coded such that EAGAIN on stdout is detected and worked around? That seems like too much to expect tail (and every other ordinary utility) to know about, so I hope my other efforts yield fruit. Stephen. ___ freebsd-ha

Re: Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-12 Thread Stephen McKay
On Wednesday, 12th January 2005, Stephen McKay wrote: >[Problems during Open Office compilation on FreeBSD 4.11-RC2] >After some tracing, I have worked out that the tty is being alternately >set to nonblocking and back to normal hundreds of times during the compilation >of Open

Background processes setting O_NONBLOCK on ttys

2005-01-12 Thread Stephen McKay
for putchar(). This is the documented behaviour (at least it is in the Single Unix Specification). Should tail be coded such that EAGAIN on stdout is detected and worked around? That seems like too much to expect tail (and every other ordinary utility) to k

Re: HTT/SMP Dual Xeon systems unstable

2004-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
elps a lot. Stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: UInaqble to install OpenOffice 1.1.3 from porte, 5.3R

2004-12-07 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
blems like that. I found that the solution was to build jdk14 before building apache-ant and openoffice - jdk14 seemed to work better than linux-jdk14. But this was a while back, and so your problem might be something else. But worth a try. St

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Søren Schmidt wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Thomas Wolf wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote: Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular. There are: Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8 I have one of these, and I am

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Thomas Wolf wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote: Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular. There are: Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8 I have one of these, and I am really impressed by its performance. I added one

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
it is the 8M cache as compared to the 2M cache. The Seagate 7200.7 had similar performance to a Seagate 160MHz SCSI drive that I have on another computer. Stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions?

2004-07-19 Thread Stephen Hocking
nk how to do it with FreeBSD. Stephen -- "Opiates are the religion of the masses." - David Cameron Staples ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Fw: Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-17 Thread Stephen Hurd
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:01:27 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephen Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Locking: kern/50827 On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:06:45PM -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote: > >

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-04 Thread Stephen Hurd
> Right, if you just make it cross-platform in the first place using > higher- level primitives you don't have to worry what the specific > kernel and operating system and file system you are using provides. > It's my opinion tha there won't be other people adopting this API for > file locking sin

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-06-30 Thread Stephen Hurd
> > Has anyone looked at this? Does anyone have any comments? > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/50827 > > I don't think you'll ever find anyone interested in file locking > anymore. Since they're all advisory, anyway, you can just implement them > at a higher level in your a

Locking: kern/50827

2004-06-24 Thread Stephen Hurd
Well, possibly due to editorial content, kern/50827 has been completely ignored. Not sure exactly the correct method of bringing something like this up, but am I the only one who finds flock(), dotlock, and fcntl() locks insufficient for their needs? Originally, this patch resulted from porting a

Vendors of multi-port PCI ethernet cards?

2004-04-26 Thread Stephen Hocking
All, Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on one of those 4 port ethernet cards that used to be around a while back? Stephen -- "Opiates are the religion of the masses." - David Cameron Staples ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Reason for LINK_MAX set to 32K?

2004-03-05 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
Is there a technical reason why LINK_MAX is set to 32K? Would anything bad happen if this value was raised? Thanks, -- Stephen J. Roznowski([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: USB keyboard thoughts.

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen Hilton
t; screen. David, The extra characters on the screen may have something to do with this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57273 Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Port bonding on nc3122 ( dual fxp ) NIC

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
particular the FreeBSD docs were better at explaining how it worked.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubs

Re: raw socket programming

2003-07-07 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
well. Sorry - it is I who is the complete idiot. Please totalyl ignore my last post. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: raw socket programming

2003-07-07 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
pt_time is not defined anywhere. It looks to me like netinet/ip.h is broken. What is it that you need netinet/ip.h for? Maybe there are some other include files that would work just as well. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.ed

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
of file. Thus select will not block and will say that this file is ready for reading. In essence, calling select will always say that a file is ready for reading, and calling select serves no purpose. Well I definitely learned something. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAI

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
tat(), but do I have any other choices? I would say, use select(2). Is there a reason this wouldn't work? -- Josh Either select(2) or poll(2) should work. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen ___

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
pentium 4 or better. - Remove ext2 support (GPL encumbered). Remove ffs support also (BSD license encumbered). - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base. I agree - perl makes a perfect replacement for tar. - Remove Sendmail and replace it with Postfix. I prefer USPS. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [E

Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-02 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:27:23 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Hilton write > s: > > >> maybe we should make some sort of geographical registration > >> web page so that people can find each other? > > Well, new commi

Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-02 Thread Stephen Hilton
occasion ;-) Why not base it on latitude and longitude, along with an email address and text fields to allow for some self expression of areas of interest etc...? A clickable map would be a nice interface for the database lookups with a max radius factor, but really is just icing on the cake.

Re: HD data recovery

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:04:35 +0300 (MSK) "."@babolo.ru wrote: > > When multi-boot system operators go bad :-) > > > > Using my PC's bios I could select either IDE or SCSI as the > > boot device, so I could boot either FreeBSD/W2K with the > > FreeBSD bootmanager on the 1st SCSI drive, run the b

HD data recovery

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Hilton
ect file I created. Is it possible to use "forensic" tools to track that down and then copy it and write it back to the correct location? Am up and running now on the spare HD, and can work on my "big mistake" at my lesiure, thanks in advance. Regards, Stephen Hilton

Re: malloc

2002-10-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
if ((*s = realloc(*s,len+1))==NULL) { fprintf(stderr,"Allocation error\n"); exit(1); } } else { if (*s!=NULL) free(*s); *s = NULL; } return *s; } -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Strange: syscons SC_PIXEL_MODE and userconfig interactions

2002-10-12 Thread Stephen Roome
So far I think that this is the weirdest problem I've had with any FreeBSD box. I've just recompiled a kernel for this laptop (old Compaq Armada 1550) which is a P133 with 16Mb of RAM. (Stop laughing you at the back!) This is running 4.7-RELEASE. Anyway, it's a reasonably cut down kernel which w

Making one's own wireless base station

2002-09-30 Thread Stephen Hocking
on it and hand out addresses. Do I have to do any thing else to get it going? What would I use to set ESSIDs and passords? Stephen - -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce t

Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]

2002-09-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
/query-pr.cgi?pr=20352 -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Which archiver handles the ICE format?

2002-09-23 Thread Stephen Hocking
I'm wanting to extract data files off the original Quake 1 CD. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks

Re: runtime

2002-08-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
It looks like exactly what I want. Thanks. Sergey Lyubka wrote: > Would getrusage() help ? > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >>How do I do the following: >> >>1) Find out how much time a program has currentl

runtime

2002-08-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
nanosleep won't work). I looked at the man pages, but all I could find was runtime which seems only to be accessible from the kernel. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: Uptime of a system

2002-07-09 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
sysctl(mib, 2, &boottime, &size, NULL, 0) != -1 && boottime.tv_sec != 0) { uptime = now - boottime.tv_sec; + uptime += 5; if (uptime > 60) uptime += 30; days = uptime / 86400;

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