Re: Attempting to roll back zfs transactions on a disk to recover a destroyed ZFS filesystem

2013-07-11 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Alan Somers wrote: > "zpool export" does not wipe the transaction history. It does, > however, write new labels and some metadata, so there is a very slight > chance that it might overwrite some of the blocks that you're trying > to recover. But it's probably saf

Re: Kernel dumps [was Re: possible changes from Panzura]

2013-07-10 Thread Will Andrews
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Absolutely. In fact, before the advent of remote network debugging, FW was > totally the debugging method of choice since firewire target DMA lets you do > all kinds of useful things (as well as a few things that simply scare the > secur

CFR: Fix a panic in userspace dtrace

2013-03-28 Thread Will Andrews
Diff: http://people.freebsd.org/~will/patches/fix-fasttrap-panic.diff Commit log: Fix a panic in userspace dtrace. The bug here is that the proc lock is already held in the case of fasttrap_fork(), which then calls proc_ops(), which tries to hold it again.

CFR: FireWire: Don't allow a tlabel to reference an xfer after free

2013-03-28 Thread Will Andrews
Diff: http://people.freebsd.org/~will/patches/fix-fwmem-use-after-free.diff >From the commit log: FireWire: Don't allow a tlabel to reference an xfer after free. sys/dev/firewire/firewire.c: - fw_xfer_unload(): Since we are about to free this xfer, call

Re: gvinum during bootup

2005-04-22 Thread Will Andrews
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:09:50AM -0400, Rex Roof wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD6 machine current as of a few days ago and I'm > working on a gvinum configuration, I couldn't find any place where it > referenced gvinum on startup so after fussing around with the rc > system a little, I wrote an /e

Re: Intel 82802 Hardware RNG

2002-09-19 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:56:23PM -0600, Stacy Millions wrote: > I am pleased (and nervous :-) to announce release 0.0.0 of my driver > for the Intel 82802 Hardware Random Number Generator. You can get > it at http://www.millions.ca/~stacy/82802rng.html > > I will now run for cover :-) Cool, I

Re: microuptime() and nanouptime() library?

2002-08-16 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 07:14:24PM -0700, Sean Hamilton wrote: > Greetings, > > I just tried to use nanouptime, then microuptime, but was disappointed to > find that a quick grep of /usr/lib revealed no libraries containing these > symbols. > > Are they only available to the kernel. If so, how c

Re: Building ports into packages, outside of /usr/ports

2002-08-12 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:48:14PM +, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Has anybody thought about hacking the above to support building packages > outside of the ports tree, and without installing them? Strikes me as > something that could be neatly solved with judicious use of chroot(1). > > This is

Re: Where are the TCP patches for 4.4?

2002-03-08 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:59:56PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I remember someone saying that they were going to make a repository > for patches for releases. > > In particular I[m looking at teh TCP patches that fixed the slow transfers > in some situations. Thes changes were put in befo

RFR: spic(4)/moused(8) -CURRENT and -STABLE patches

2002-02-10 Thread Will Andrews
Hi all, As an idle src committer, I'm requesting additional peer review for the following patches: http://csociety.org/~will/jogdial-current-2.diff http://csociety.org/~will/jogdial-stable-2.diff These patches: 1) Modify the spic(4) driver to support additional Sony

Re: Linking libc before libc_r into application causes weird problems

2002-02-08 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:00:57PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:51:26PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > But no library has it here! libc comes out of blue just before libc_r > > > - see attached script. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I can't > > > figure out whe

Re: Linking libc before libc_r into application causes weird problems

2002-02-08 Thread Will Andrews
[ cc:-list from hell snipped ] On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:51:26PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > But no library has it here! libc comes out of blue just before libc_r > - see attached script. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I can't > figure out where it comes from, could you? It is added autom

Re: Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD (full status)

2002-02-04 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:42:21PM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > Hackers, Please properly format your email so it doesn't look like the below so I can read it. > Here is full status report on project i was working on. I apologize for > the > wide distribution, but i think that might be intere

Re: 4.3 vs 4.4

2001-10-03 Thread Will Andrews
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:11:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, and not to the other fellow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who > chose to just make a snide remark. Snide? That's what you call snide? Wow, I'd hate to hear what you consider only to be the doing of a true jerk.

Re: current strstr(3) implementation is slow

2001-10-01 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:32:12AM +0400, Andrew L. Neporada wrote: > If the length of substring is M and the length of string is N, then > current algorithm takes O(N*M) operations. > It is possible to perform search faster -- O(N+M) operations only. Please send-pr them. -- wca To Unsubscribe

Re: (a bit offtopic) KDE2.1.1 install

2001-07-10 Thread Will Andrews
[ redirected to -questions ] On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:27:35PM -0500, Lakey, Jeremy # IHTUL ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm running a p233 with 128mgs of ram, and KDE 2.1.1 install has been > compiling ALL MORNING! > > Is this unusual? No. It takes 6 hours on my dual Pentium III 600MHz w

Re: what #define for thread-safeness?

2001-06-27 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:43:02PM -0400, David Petrou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. On linux, I know that when compiling threaded code I need to > #define _REENTRANT. What's the right thing to do on FreeBSD? I've > searched around the FreeBSD pages and have come up empty. I googled > aroun

Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..

2001-06-22 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:43:58AM -0700, Matthew Jacob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, and you're right. But we'll probably never do this (tm). Never say never. I for one am in favor of that system. =) Unfortunately at the moment we have sys/${MACHINE}/compile rather than sys/arch/${MACHINE

Re: Two Junior Kernel Hacker tasks..

2001-06-22 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:50:00AM -0700, Matthew Jacob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Why can't we do it like NetBSD and have > > sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile? I thought it was sys/arch/${MACHINE_ARCH}/compile? ;) Aren't you a NetBSD developer[*]? -- wca [*] Sorry, couldn't resist. To Unsubsc

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:37:49PM -0500, Andrew Hesford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > New "modules"? Isn't that just the same as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ ? I side > with Mr. Dillon, I hope things stay the way they are. You acted rashly. It's like /usr/local/etc/rc.d, only it becomes extended to the

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:32:50AM -0500, Andrew Hesford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The XFree86 4.0.1 sources *did* offer a helpful hint. I have posted > another email which includes a patch to fix the buggy i810 driver. Are you people talking about XFree86 4.1.0 or 4.0.1? Because 4.0.1 is >WA

Re: Kqueue and FreeBSD versions

2001-05-15 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:16:23PM -0700, Farooq Mela wrote: > Hi -hackers, > > Just a quick question. > What value of __FreeBSD_version should I require for kqueue? (I mean > ) - was it introduced in 4.1 or 4.2 (memory fails me)? was introduced a loong time ago, and it was subsequently obsolet

Re: IBM ACP modem driver

2001-04-06 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:21:05PM -0700, Simon Walton wrote: >I think that would be a lot of work. Might be easier to persuade > IBM to release just the kernel portion under a BSD licence. Or just to offer a kernel module that's not enabled by default. -- wca PGP signature

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Will Andrews
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:12:34PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > For your info, Bub, what makes the BSD license attractive is its usability > by commercial vendors, so maybe you should go play in Linuxland because > you are the one in the wrong camp, not me. the ability to take code, fix it > and inc

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Will Andrews
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:11:54PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > Most drivers are written without full docs. Intel supplied drivers for > linux are available for both eepro100 and gigabit cards. The info is out > there. Cobbling together the info to produce a driver...THATS what open > source is all a

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-24 Thread Will Andrews
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:49:14PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > You use the term "our developers" as if you are some sort of closed cult. They have something in common, and it's not a cult. It's called being an "open source developer". > I have NEVER complained about Intel not releasing full informa

Re: any decently supported scanner around ?

2001-03-20 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 06:37:57AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > is there any scanner (USB i presume by now) which is decently > supported by FreeBSD, perhaps something that can be driven > using a command line interface rather than SANE or some > other huge piece of software ? > > In the past i ha

Re: Routing latency

2001-03-19 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:11:55PM -0800, Devin Butterfield wrote: > I'm not defending Dennis here, but this statement infers that nothing gets > done unless maintainers are > > a) paid > > or > > b) someone else does the work for them. > > I certainly hope this is not the case. No, it is n

Re: Routing latency

2001-03-19 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:46:53PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > I never got an answer (as usual) from bill paul when I made the > suggestions, and noone seemed interested in getting it fixed. He seems to > get insulted when I infer that he did something wrong. It's like they say: "money talks". Simi

Re: Routing latency

2001-03-19 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:14:54PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > Cool. Is the 21143 now started in store-and-forward mode and has the > mandatory watchdog timeout been fixed? Im getting tired of hacking it every > release. Submit a PR to fix the problem? -- wca PGP signature

Re: Generating SYN packets.

2001-03-09 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:03:58AM -0800, Walter Goralski wrote: > The missing piece has been DOS SYN attacks. I have the really common > "synk4.c" source that is all over the Web, but I get errors when I try to > compile it ("it's the linux includes" someone told me). Now, I last used my They're

Re: cvsup7.freebsd.org downtime for upgrades

2001-01-16 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 06:47:14PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > cvsup12 carries OpenBSD.. As the admin of cvsup.usa.openbsd.org/cvsup12, this is correct. :) -- wca PGP signature

Re: 3ware 3dmd control/reporting utility for 3ware ide raid card

2001-01-08 Thread Will Andrews
[.. redirected to hackers@ and msmith@, quotes kept for context ..] On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:22:30PM -0800, Peter Brezny wrote: > I've been trying to find the port for this utility. > > Mike Smith mentioned that it was in the testing phase, close to being > released, but I'm not sure what cate

Re: make(1) -DREMOTE?

2000-12-30 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:01:33AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > So, I'm wondering who uses it, and what purpose it serves. There is > nothing in the manpage about this "feature". So from general consensus, people who desire this functionality can get it from ports/dev

make(1) -DREMOTE?

2000-12-26 Thread Will Andrews
Hi all, I'm a bit confused about a certain "feature" in make(1). There is a compile-time option that can be enabled: -DREMOTE. This enables (as far as I can tell) some kind of remote job management capability. In three or four years that I've used FreeBSD (as well as other Unix variants), I've

Re: Julian's World tour

2000-12-22 Thread Will Andrews
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:30:56PM +, Aled Morris wrote: > __--_|\ Julian Elischer > / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ( OZ) World tour 2000 > ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest > v > > Is that map strictly correct? Or is Budapest also a suburb of Perth? I

Re: SNDCTL_DSP_CHANNELS not defined in soundcard.h when installing KDE 2.0.1

2000-12-14 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:20:43PM -0500, Raymond Law wrote: > Any idea on why SNDCTL_DSP_CHANNELS is not defined in soundcard.h? Any idea why you are not using the ports to compile KDE2? It's no secret that KDE is Linux-centric, and as such they don't bother to check for problems like slight di

Re: APACHE PROBLEMS (fwd)

2000-12-04 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:43:04PM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: > I don;t know if I will be on this list anymore after reporting the abuse > Bill Fumerola has done as he works for freebsd.orgif i am now removed > from this list please cc me any thing he says about me ...thankyou. What? Where do

Re: APACHE PROBLEMS (fwd)

2000-12-04 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:18:51PM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: > you gave this guy efnet irc privs!!! Who's "we"? Why did you post this crap to -hackers? It's totally off-topic and irrelevant. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

"mortal" mount

2000-12-04 Thread Will Andrews
Hi all, I spotted this PR in the database today: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11031 I'd like to know: why can't our mount optionally allow configuration of non-root mounting to a fixed mountpoint? This patch (obviously, it will need to be updated to sync with the current

Re: UDP limits in dns server?

2000-11-19 Thread Will Andrews
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:45:50PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > I've had the suggestion to up maxusers to 512. I'm a little leery of > this, having heard of problems > 128 on this list for seemingly years. Is > there a better way to size the network buffers and anything else which > needs to be

Re: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why?

2000-10-24 Thread Will Andrews
an option to disable this flag.. no idea why. One could simply invoke `ls' as a normal user (say, `nobody') if they so desired. -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Physics Computer Network wench To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

2000-07-24 Thread Will Andrews
any emulation. They are also fast and seldom crash. IMNSHO, the FreeBSD Netscape ports should be axed if Netscape won't ever make ELF binaries. -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ P

Re: Remove

2000-07-23 Thread Will Andrews
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:09:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [.. 480 lines of spam snipped ..] Why don't you remove yourself and save everybody else the bandwidth, time, and money you just wasted by posting this cruft to this list?? -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[E

Re: ld static search path?

2000-07-11 Thread Will Andrews
emove the static search paths hardcoded into ld.. Of course, I'm not 100% sure of everything I'm saying, but this has been my experience with static libs. I always just refer to them by their full path when linking. -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCS/E

Re: ld static search path?

2000-07-11 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 02:55:51PM -0400, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > Could someone tell me how I can find out what the *static* search path for > ld is? Also, how can I add my own directories to the static search path? As far as I know, there's no such thing as a static search path

Re: An IA-64 port?

2000-06-04 Thread Will Andrews
the IA-64 support is; I'm just assuming that because there's some code in there to support IA-64, some work is underway to support it. -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++

Re: An IA-64 port?

2000-06-04 Thread Will Andrews
't be left out Hi, Just new information for you: David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> imported GCC 2.96 into -current's tree early this morning. The build succeeded on my system, so I should have a compiler with rudimentary (i.e. "pre-alpha") support for IA-64 onc

Re: An IA-64 port?

2000-06-03 Thread Will Andrews
seems Intel is trying to push IA-64 > to be 'the platform' for servers and workstations, and I think > FreeBSD definitely can't be left out There is definitely some effort being put into supporting IA-64. Right now it's not part of the tree. :-) -- Will Andrews &

Re: 3Com's all-in-one XJack modem/NIC

2000-05-04 Thread Will Andrews
Cardbus code in the tree (which MAY be in by 4.1, but more likely 4.2). However, if it's anything like the other 3Com cards, writing the actual driver will be easy (what's needed at this point is the base code for pccard + cardbus). So, as soon as we get done with the base code, I'

Re: floating point exceptions

2000-04-25 Thread Will Andrews
SD__ fpsetmask(0); #endif BTW: if you update httperf, let me know so I can update the port (I'm the maintainer for the httperf port). -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t

Re: zsh compdef collection for FreeBSD

2000-03-28 Thread Will Andrews
people.freebsd.org/~knu/etc/zsh/functions/ > > The stock contents: > - cvsup > - kldload / kldunload > - pkg_add / pkg_delete / pkg_info > - mount / umount (very poor for the present) I have a couple CVS compctls, but that's about it for really useful compctls

Re: Temperature

1999-12-30 Thread Will Andrews
n 32C (~90F). As I touch the grill where some of the air goes out, it feels quite cold. 32C as reported by wmhm through the intpm device. I might add this is a single PII-450 machine, with no overclocking or any stupid things like that. -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>

RE: Temperature

1999-12-30 Thread Will Andrews
so I'm a little curious about your problem. I doubt it has anything to do with the OS. [ Note: These temperatures are obtained from the intpm device via wmhm. I had to calculate the F's by the formula F = (C)(9/5) + 32. ] I admit I haven't seen this machine above 60 days uptim