Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > A couple of things. > > - The newer rt2661.c driver has not been MFC'd to 6.2. That is most > likely why your card is not working. > - 'ifconfig' when run as root will load the module for a network > driver provided it is a) in the path and b) name if_ name>.ko > >-Kip >

Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Forent Thoumie wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:05 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2. > > > > I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should > > be supported by the &#

Linksys WMP54G + ndis = panic

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Well - I gave up on the ral(4) driver - seems it doesn't support the WMP54Gv4.1 linksys card. So - I've got ndis working. I can ifconfig ndis0, set the ssid and wepkey, etc... And - DHCP will get the wireless configured (IP address, default route, etc...) But - on the first packet after that (

Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2. I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should be supported by the 'ral' driver. However, my pciconf says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00551737 chip=0x03011814 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor =

Re: FLEX, was Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-29 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"Randall Hyde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > BTW, if anyone is intrested in the full FLEX source, it's part of the HLA > (High Level Assembler) source package found here: > > > http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/HLA/HLAv1.84/hlasrc.zip > Just wondering if those guys knew that IBM calls their mainfra

flock() returns EHOSTUNREACH on 5.3 with 4.5 NFS server

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I'm applying flock() to a file that is on an NFS server. The program calling flock() is built on a 4.5 system, with the 4.5 libraries, etc... The NFS server is a 4.5-RELEASE system. The program running on a 4.5-release system doesn't display any problems. But - when I run that same program o

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Everyone, If I'm remembering correctly - the historical way to do this is to alias the "rm" command to something that else that checks the arguments and complains appropriately (and then executes /bin/rm.) Typically with just a shell alias. That keeps you from accidently doing something.

Re: more info on pccard insertion hang...

2002-05-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : to the end of pcic_pci_intr() - but that didn't change anything... > : got the same hang in exactly t

Re: more info on pccard insertion hang...

2002-05-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Warner - any ideas? > : pci_write_config(..., bcr,2); <<<< hangs > > Interesti

more info on pccard insertion hang...

2002-05-26 Thread Thomas David Rivers
OK - after *many* additional printf()s, and following the control flow through several twisty passages (all alike), I've figured out _where_ the hang is happening but, not why... First - the card is inserted, and the various callbacks occur... pccardd gets involved and reads the CIS to deter

Re: pccard hang - how to start debugging?

2002-05-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Ok - the next question would be - is there a way to "un-do" that? > : Since ISA interrupts w

Re: any file --> symbol in .o file

2002-05-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"E.B. Dreger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings all, > Eddy, Instead of a system-specific approach, you might want to take advantage of what the C language has to offer. For example, your multi-line issue. You realise that the C preprocessor/compiler will concatentate adjacen

Re: pccard hang - how to start debugging?

2002-05-19 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Ok - the next question would be - is there a way to "un-do" that? > : Since ISA interrupts work

Re: pccard hang - how to start debugging?

2002-05-19 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Also - I need to understand why this machine worked so well with > : 4.1-RELEASE, and doesn't

Re: pccard hang - how to start debugging?

2002-05-17 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > : OK - > : > : pccard (or, more likely, the pcic driver) hangs when I insert > : my ethernet card into the pcmcia slot on my VAIO F480 (with >

pccard hang - how to start debugging?

2002-05-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
OK - pccard (or, more likely, the pcic driver) hangs when I insert my ethernet card into the pcmcia slot on my VAIO F480 (with 4.5-RELEASE.) The entire machine is hung up tight. When I remove the card, everything comes "alive" again This clearly feels like a missed interrupt somewh

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Archie Cobbs wrote: > > Thomas David Rivers writes: > > > If I add > > > enable MSChapV2 > > > in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf - then our ppp client requires that the > > > peer (the M

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas David Rivers writes: > > > > enable MSChapV2 > > > > in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf - then our ppp client requires that the > > > > peer (the Microsoft VPN server) authenticate using MSChapV2

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Thomas David Rivers writes: > > If I add > > enable MSChapV2 > > in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf - then our ppp client requires that the > > peer (the Microsoft VPN server) authenticate using MSChapV2. But, > > the Microsoft VPN peer refuses that (it&#x

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > From the ppp.log file - it seems I have to have MSChapV2 > > both enabled and disabled at the same time. At some points > > in the negotiation it needs to be disabled (i.e. *not* used > > for authenticating the peer) - but at

mpd (was Re: Anyone using pptp?)

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've always had better success using the mpd port for pptp.. OK - I went through the mpd documentation, etc.. very nice. No problems setting things up, etc... However, mpd isn't working for me either. It makes it through the authentication,

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've always had better success using the mpd port for pptp.. > It's installed now :-) I'm going to try and "give it a go" this morning! I'll let everyone know how it goes... - Thanks! - - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:47:13PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > Well - I'm still trying to get pptp to cooperate and set up > > a VPN connection to a Microsoft VPN server. > > > > I'm just

RE: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Dear Thomas, > > > > > Well - I'm still trying to get pptp to cooperate and set up > > a VPN connection to a Microsoft VPN server. > > > > I'm just wondering - is there _anyone_ out there that has > > met with success using pptp - and, if so, could you share > > your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf sett

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:47:13PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > Well - I'm still trying to get pptp to cooperate and set up > > a VPN connection to a Microsoft VPN server. > > > > I'm just

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Well - I'm still trying to get pptp to cooperate and set up > > a VPN connection to a Microsoft VPN server. > > > > I'm just wondering - is there _anyone_ out there that ha

Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Well - I'm still trying to get pptp to cooperate and set up a VPN connection to a Microsoft VPN server. I'm just wondering - is there _anyone_ out there that has met with success using pptp - and, if so, could you share your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf settings? - Many thanks! - - Dave Riv

pptp client?

2002-04-26 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I posted something on -questions, and got no reply... so, let me try here... Has _anyone_ been successfull at getting a pptp client connection to a Microsoft VPN server? I've - at last - gotten through two of the big hurdles, 1) Clearing the firewall to allow this to pass and 2) Getting the CHA

Re: locale problems with linux 7.1 base upgrade

2002-04-25 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Theo Pagtzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I upgraded to linux 7.1 base successfully for the purposes of getting > linux java 1.4. The upgrade has created a consistent problem with the > locale for any application that I am running. > > These applications are so far, Netscape and

Debugging natd?

2001-07-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
The machine I redirected telnet too has changed IP addresses... And; I discovered after simply changing my natd_flags in /etc/rc.conf that natd isn't properly redirecting the port. I checked the messages log (/var/log/alias.log) and nothing appears to be amiss. (And, I've got -l on the natd_fl

Re: C++ to C translator

2001-07-04 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> Hi, > > I have written some code in C++. However, I want to run it on an old > mainframe machine, which a C++ compiler is not available. > > I know that the old g++ is a C++ to C compiler. Does anyone know which > version it is? Also, anyone knows other C++ to C compilers? > > Thanks, > Rayso

Re: free() and const warnings

2001-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > Since some strings are non-constant (the are allocated) - I believe > > the `const' qualifier in the structure declaration is incorrect. > > 'const' just means "I will not be modifying this"; it's a way for a > function prototype to constrain the function's implementation. > Yes - it

Re: free() and const warnings

2001-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:51:54AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > > > GCC complains when I try to initialize the structure with something like: > > > > > > struct validation_fun val_init[] = { > > > {"init"

Re: free() and const warnings

2001-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > GCC complains when I try to initialize the structure with something like: > > struct validation_fun val_init[] = { > {"init",valfun_init,0} > }; > > This can be avoided by: > > struct validation_fun val_init[] = { > {(char *) (uintptr_t) "init", valfun_init,0}

Re: free() and const warnings

2001-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:20:51AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On 07-Jun-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:07:22PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Is free((void *) (size_t) ptr) the only way to fr

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-02-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM > S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a > whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to my > surprise, it was taken seriously. > > So, has anyone done any wor

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-23 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Farooq Mela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Usually when I write programs, I have functions such as the following: > > void * > xmalloc(size_t size) > { > > } > > void * > xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size) > { > > } > > And then I use these instead of malloc and realloc t

Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII

2001-01-29 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Josef Grosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one > time FreeBSD had one of these. > > > Josef Check out the `dd' command.. particularly the `conv' suboption: conv= value[, value ...] Where value is one

Re: Question about -Wchar-subscripts

2000-10-03 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Robert Nordier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > > So why is using a "char" as an array subscript wrong? I had always > > > > avoided it because the compiler complained and that was good enough > > &g

Re: Question about -Wchar-subscripts

2000-10-03 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > In the last episode (Oct 03), Larry Lile said: > > > > ...we get scores of warnings about using characters as subscripts > > to an array (-Wchar-subscripts), which generates so much noise as > > to mask real warnings burried within. Therefore, I would like to > > suppress thi

Re: AW: Redirect stdout/stderr to syslog [OFF-TOPIC]

2000-09-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > -Ursprungliche Nachricht- > > Von: Peter Pentchev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Gesendet: Freitag, 1. September 2000 14:00 > > > > man 1 logger > > > > pipe your stdout/stderr to logger(1), and you're all set. > > You may even > > specify a facility/level to log with. > > > >

Re: An IA-64 port?

2000-06-04 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > > > I believe HP provides a IA64 emultor which runs on Linux/Windows? I recall > > stumbling into when looking at the IA64 compiler that SGI recently > > releases. > > It was mentioned on SGI's pages, but I couldn't find it anywhere on HP's > site (the link didn't work). If you have

Re: An IA-64 port?

2000-06-04 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Intel has furnished us with IA-64 hardware and a porting effort is > > already underway. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would like to > > help out in some way with the process. > > What can those of us just out here do? > > I believe

Re: Building customized kernel without root passwd

2000-02-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> My professor plans to use FreeBSD for teaching purpose. We will allow > students to build their kernel but do not want to give them root password. > So it's better to find a way to let students build kernel under their own > account, save the kernel on a floppy and then boot from the floppy. >

IBM releases JFS for Linux.

2000-02-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
This came across the Linux/390 mailing list today, I thought it might be interesting for people: >"IBM makes JFS technology available for Linux - Technology based on OS/2 >Warp Journaled File System goes open source". See >http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/features/jfs_featur

Re: mktime(3) and strange struct tm entries

2000-01-07 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Hello! > > Try the following: > > Take any year, minute, seconds, hours (etc...). > > set the struct tm accordingly. > set the tm->tm_mon = 10 (November) > set the tm->tm_mday = 31 (november has only 31 days) > > mktime(3) with this tm returns the date 1 Dezember. > > Does POSIX want thi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

2000-01-05 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> Yes, according to the strict letter of the law, all of these other system > include files don't even have to exist, and if they do exist, they could > contain any garbage you want, including random binary bytes that drive the > compiler absolutely mad. The ANSI C standard has _nothing_ to say a

Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

2000-01-05 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >... If you have examples where it breaks, send them to me, please. > > Here is a list of a few system include file problems, in no particular > order. Most of these are ANSI conformance problems. > > >

Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeBSD?

2000-01-05 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > P.S. Actually, although Martin Cracauer's suggested replacement for > the existing Mozilla code is certainly better than what Mozilla is > using now, it may perhaps need to be slightly augmented with an > additional check to see if the value of `d' is a NaN prior to per- > forming the range

RE: modifying an object file

1999-12-21 Thread Thomas David Rivers
David - The man page for the ELF linker says: ld accepts Linker Command Language files to provide ex- plicit and total control over the linking process. This man page does not describe the command language; see the `ld' entry in `info', or the manual ld: the

Re: ncr scsi timeout

1999-12-15 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > The kernel hangs (rather an endless loop) with messages like: > > ncr0: timeout nccb=0xc0c38000 > > if I attach a fujitsu M2513A2 640MB MO drive. From a quick glance in the > ncr source it seems there's a problem with the script stuff in case of a > timeout. Anyway, this doesn't hap

Re: error

1999-12-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Include before - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Human readable df

1999-11-30 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Stephen McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And to Thomas: I've used dfspace before on ISC Unix, but never really > liked it. I prefer df to do what I want. Am I greedy? :-) Not at all - it just seems to me the question should be asked, that's all. Since not a single person agreed - it s

Re: Human readable df

1999-11-30 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Stephen McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write > > On Tuesday, 30th November 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > > FilesystemSize UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/da0s1a 62.0M 31.0M 26.1M54% / > > /dev/da0s1e 192M 167M 9.22M95% /usr > > /dev/da0s1d 61.4M 11.3M 45.2M

Re: Human readable df

1999-11-30 Thread Thomas David Rivers
In message <19991129230436.A6501@badmofo> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : [badmofo@/home/matt] df -h : FilesystemSize UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on : /dev/wd0s1a 722M20M 644M 3% / : /dev/wd0s2h 9.9G 4.4G 4.8G48% /usr : procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%

Re: Included file errors

1999-11-17 Thread Thomas David Rivers
You're missing a #include of - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Kernel debug assistance?

1999-11-15 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I'm trying to track down a problem in 3.3-RELEASE (which I _think_ might be a linux emu bug that's crashing the kernel.) Anyway - I thought I might ask here for some kernel debugging assistance... I've got a debuggable kernel, with DDB. When the panic occurs (which I can readily reproduce) I

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-11-03 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chuck Robey >writes: > : Uhhh? I've long since got the answer I wanted, but this seems a complete > : mystery, so I'll bite, what's a OI_add_event? From some package? Can't > : find a man page on it. > > OI was a native C++ toolkit that had a nice interface

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-10-26 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> Then you just stick a C wrapper function around every C++ callback you > want to register, is that it? Seems a bit inelegant, but I suppose, if > the ultimate test of elegance is that "it's the only one that works", then > it's perhaps elegant *enough*. I believe someone posted a better solu

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-10-26 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > On 27-Oct-99 Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > If you mean Xt (and possibly Motif) - the answer is "very carefully." > > Or you could just use a toolkit written for C++ or with C++ shims already.. ie > Qt or GTK.. > Good point! Also - I think there were

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-10-26 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Does anyone (anyone, that is, who's coded X11 applications) know how you > handle X11 callbacks to C++ object methods? > > Thanks, If you mean Xt (and possibly Motif) - the answer is "very carefully." The Xt callbacks are C based, so you typically can't directly call a C++ method. Bu

Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-25 Thread Thomas David Rivers
And - to add to this - I still can freeze up my pentium laptop rather quickly (3.2-RELEASE, 40meg memory, P90) running setiathome. And - I've got DDB in the kernel, and ensured it's not overheating (it will freeze up in less than a minute from a _very_ cold start.) I don't get a panic, ddb promp

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > :Will you be assigning the copyright to the FSF? (ie: you'll never be able > :to change your mind? 50 years is a long time...) > > 70 now I believe. Changed to be compatible with the euros, who are all 70 > years apparently. If I understand th

Re: Minor numbers in shared libraries.

1999-09-17 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > In a discussion with Nate Williams, I have learned that the reason FreeBSD > doesn't use minor numbers with shared libraries because standard ELF doesn't > support it. Is this a hard-and-fast unbreakable rule, or is this something > that could be implemented if it can be done in a way that's c

Re: Minor numbers in shared libraries.

1999-09-17 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > In a discussion with Nate Williams, I have learned that the reason FreeBSD > doesn't use minor numbers with shared libraries because standard ELF doesn't > support it. Is this a hard-and-fast unbreakable rule, or is this something > that could be implemented if it can be done in a way that's

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Jay West wrote: > > > Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by > > Intel at all. > >=20 > > It was created almost completely by HP (by the same group responsible for > > PA-RISC), with Intel as merely the production facilities. For obvious > >

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Jay West wrote: > > > Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by > > Intel at all. > >=20 > > It was created almost completely by HP (by the same group responsible for > > PA-RISC), with Intel as merely the production facilities. For obvious > >

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Kenny Drobnack > Lately i have seen a lot of speculation as to what will happen when the > Intel Merced comes out. Will people wait 12-18 months for a 64 bit > Windows (that's the amount of time I keep hearing it will take them to get > Win2000 running on it) or will they just buy it and pop Lin

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Kenny Drobnack <[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Lately i have seen a lot of speculation as to what will happen when the > Intel Merced comes out. Will people wait 12-18 months for a 64 bit > Windows (that's the amount of time I keep hearing it will take them to get > Win2000 running on it) or will

RE: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> All the files under Tandem's NSK has mandatory locking. The file cannot be > opened if another process has it opened. some thing like > > * if the file is opened for reading, any one can open it for > reading but opening for writing gives error > * if the file is open for writing, it can

RE: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> All the files under Tandem's NSK has mandatory locking. The file cannot be > opened if another process has it opened. some thing like > > * if the file is opened for reading, any one can open it for > reading but opening for writing gives error > * if the file is open for writing, it ca

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-18 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I had a thought on this It seems you are trying to provide the "floppy model" that users currently have with their PCs. User A writes the floppy, User B can read it and do whatever he wants... (I know this is Apple - but I'll stick to MSDOS for the discussion, and "floppy" indicates any re

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-18 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I had a thought on this It seems you are trying to provide the "floppy model" that users currently have with their PCs. User A writes the floppy, User B can read it and do whatever he wants... (I know this is Apple - but I'll stick to MSDOS for the discussion, and "floppy" indicates any r

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-05 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > Bill Fumerola writes: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm > > > > The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes. > > > > Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Coo

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-05 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > Bill Fumerola writes: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm > > > > The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes. > > > > Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Co

Re: interesting bug in /usr/bin/cmp

1999-07-29 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > > > > > If someone is interested to solve a problem: > > > > > > $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=8848 count=1 of=a 2>/dev/null > > > $ cp a b > > > $ cmp a b 0 0x300 > > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > $ cmp a b 0 0x200 > > > cmp: EOF on b > > > $ cmp a b 0x300 0 > > > cmp: EOF on a > > > >

Re: interesting bug in /usr/bin/cmp

1999-07-29 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > > > > > If someone is interested to solve a problem: > > > > > > $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=8848 count=1 of=a 2>/dev/null > > > $ cp a b > > > $ cmp a b 0 0x300 > > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > $ cmp a b 0 0x200 > > > cmp: EOF on b > > > $ cmp a b 0x300 0 > > > cmp: EOF on a > > >

Re: interesting bug in /usr/bin/cmp

1999-07-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > If someone is interested to solve a problem: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=8848 count=1 of=a 2>/dev/null > $ cp a b > $ cmp a b 0 0x300 > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > $ cmp a b 0 0x200 > cmp: EOF on b > $ cmp a b 0x300 0 > cmp: EOF on a > > Jean-Marc > I've seen a similar problem when do

Re: interesting bug in /usr/bin/cmp

1999-07-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > If someone is interested to solve a problem: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=8848 count=1 of=a 2>/dev/null > $ cp a b > $ cmp a b 0 0x300 > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > $ cmp a b 0 0x200 > cmp: EOF on b > $ cmp a b 0x300 0 > cmp: EOF on a > > Jean-Marc > I've seen a similar problem when d

Re: sigaction inconsistancy (here I go again)

1999-07-09 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> >Also, I haven't gone into the code yet, but the floating point > registers are not saved into the sigcontext so that they can be > inspected and modified as appropriate. > > Thanks, > John If I recall correctly - I think there's a discussion of why this is the case in the -hackers ma

Re: sigaction inconsistancy (here I go again)

1999-07-09 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> >Also, I haven't gone into the code yet, but the floating point > registers are not saved into the sigcontext so that they can be > inspected and modified as appropriate. > > Thanks, > John If I recall correctly - I think there's a discussion of why this is the case in the -hackers m

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports it would "have it" - and the programs that "used it" wouldn't have to know anything special. I only have a

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports it would "have it" - and the programs that "used it" wouldn't have to know anything special. I only have

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-03 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Hi, > > After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that > I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and > suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading > up on the ix86 support for hardware watch points. Using this facility >

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-03 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Hi, > > After recently debugging a very elusive memory overwrite problem that > I was only able to find by setting up a debugger watch point, and > suffering through the slowness that this introduced, I began reading > up on the ix86 support for hardware watch points. Using this facility > o

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all > > FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed > > tone: "You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to install RedHat!'. > > *sigh* I'm not bitching... just being loyal :) > > That's ridiculous.

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all > > FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed > > tone: "You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to install RedHat!'. > > *sigh* I'm not bitching... just being loyal :) > > That's ridiculous.

Re: setiathome crashes 3.2?

1999-06-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Would everyone agree that it's not a "good thing" for a user-mode > > program to be able to lock up the OS? > > > There are severall resons. > One of them is that I got panics with a to high set MAXUSER in kernel options. > I don't know if it's a problem with 3.2. > The other possible reason

Re: setiathome crashes 3.2?

1999-06-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Would everyone agree that it's not a "good thing" for a user-mode > > program to be able to lock up the OS? > > > There are severall resons. > One of them is that I got panics with a to high set MAXUSER in kernel options. > I don't know if it's a problem with 3.2. > The other possible reason m

setiathome crashes 3.2?

1999-06-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I seem to recall seeing this someone (this may not be the right list.) But - I downloaded the 3.2 s...@home and starting running it on a left-over 75mhz laptop I have. It seems to crash the laptop (silently lock it up, actually) fairly quickly. Did I recall someone else mentioning that? Would

Re: 3.2 SL/IP Install - can't get ifconfig to work...

1999-06-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > To add more to this - tracing through in.c in the kernel, > > I see that when you configure an interface it eventually > > works its way down to rtrequest - to add a route for > > the new interface. > > > > I

More on ifconfig sl0 issue...

1999-06-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Well - I've added some printf()s to determine that what I suspected was correct. The route is being entered into the table twice. If looks like in_ifinit() is calling the sioctl() routine, which calls if_up(), which then adds the route. Then, in_ifinit() goes on to add another route and *p

Re: 3.2 SL/IP Install - can't get ifconfig to work...

1999-06-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
To add more to this - tracing through in.c in the kernel, I see that when you configure an interface it eventually works its way down to rtrequest - to add a route for the new interface. I believe rtrequest() is the one returning EEXIST which is what causes ifconfig on sl0 to always complain "Fil

Re: 3.2 SL/IP Install - can't get ifconfig to work...

1999-06-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > > I don't seem to be able to get 3.2 to do a SL/IP > install (this is for a laptop which seems to be > having PAO problems...) > > Turning on DEBUG in the install options, I can watch > it nicely execute: > > ifconfig sl0 inet 10.0.0.98 10.0.0.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > but - not matter

3.2 SL/IP Install - can't get ifconfig to work...

1999-06-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I don't seem to be able to get 3.2 to do a SL/IP install (this is for a laptop which seems to be having PAO problems...) Turning on DEBUG in the install options, I can watch it nicely execute: ifconfig sl0 inet 10.0.0.98 10.0.0.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 but - not matter what - that always seems

Re: compiler warnings (was: RE: Typo: sys/pci/pcisupport.c)

1999-06-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > There is a story behind it: our product was shipping for hpux > and was later ported to sinix. It had some instabilities during > development (it was first developed for hpux, then the enhancements were > ported to sinix, almost in parallel). > > A colleague wrote (paraphrased)

Re: symlink question

1999-06-15 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > symlinks have caused me grief (Pyramid OSx) and never joy. I hope it fails > > yet again to appear in FreeBSD. Just think of the new security holes for a > > start. > > Name one, please. You can currently point a symlink anyplace you > like; whether the user has permission to *read* or exec

Re: Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-09 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:40:46AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > > Can someone comment please? Is this a bug in the way the gcc2.8 is > > > installed, or is it a bug in my understanding? (probably the latter). > > > > Perhaps you need a gcc-compiled version of libstdc++. It's just

Re: Segfault in longjmp() ?

1999-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > The machine is a SMP 3.0-RELEASE box. > > A heavily threaded program is segfaulting in the longjmp() function. > Any ideas what would cause this? > > Regards, > > Dan > > You could have trashed your jmp_buf... (i.e. you're passing bad data to longjmp().) Just a thought... -

Re: Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > (gdb) bt > > > #0 0x8052c0f in ostream::flush () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 > > > #1 0x8052912 in ostream::operator<< () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 > > > #2 0x804995f in m

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