sgmlformat & making release

1999-06-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
I'm tryingeto do a "make release" via time make release CHROOTDIR=/local/GenRelease BUILDNAME=3.2.0.-rel-wkb RELEASETAG=RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE Making docs... ===> Extracting for docproj-1.0 >> No MD5 checksum file. ===> Patching for docproj-1.0 ===> Configuring for docproj-1.0 ===> Installing

wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-06 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
I have two boxes with ATAPI Zip Drives: Box1: wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr, iordis wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk) Box2: wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, intr, iordis wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk) wfd0: buggy Zip drive, 64-block transfer limit set The drive on Box1 gets ti

Re: allocate file blocks contiguously

1999-06-06 Thread Zhihui Zhang
> > For more info about maxcontig, you can refer to the well-known > paper of McKusic et al about Fast File System. It is a parameter > that is hardware dependent. You can't get performance just by > increasing its value. Unfortunately, I don't have on-line version > of that paper. > > > --F

Word processor distractions (was Re: Kernel config script:)

1999-06-06 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
> I've seen references to people writing Towers of Hanoi in troff, but > I don't have a pointer to the actual code. Can't help you there, but here's something for you: /hanoi{/x{{exit}}def /e{exch}def /d{dup}def /l{loop}def /n exch def /m 2 n 1 sub exp cvi def[m{d 0 eq x if d[e d 0{1 add e 2 div

Re: sgmlformat & making release

1999-06-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Wilko Bulte writes: > >> sgmlformat-1.7.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > >> Attempting to fetch from > http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/ports/distfiles/. > fetch: reading reply from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu: Operation timed > out > >> Attempting to fetch from > ftp://ftp.f

a.out behavior

1999-06-06 Thread Marc Tardif
The following code should obviously segfault: #include #include char buffer[4028]; void main() { int i; for (i=0; i<=4028; i++) buffer[i]='A'; syslog(LOG_ERR, buffer); } Now here's the problem: When compiling with "gcc file.c", the program segfaults. Whe

Re: a.out behavior

1999-06-06 Thread Marc Slemko
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Marc Tardif wrote: > The following code should obviously segfault: Nope. There is no requirement that code segfault. C does not make any promises that accessing memory that you have not allocated will do anything. > #include > #include > > char buffer[4028]; > > void ma

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problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-06 Thread Brian Feldman
In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's easy to induce, but I have no idea how I'd go about fixing it myself (being very new to that part of the kernel.) Here's the program which ind

Re: PCMCIA "sio" problem with current

1999-06-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199905281615.jaa32...@whistle.com> Doug Ambrisko writes: : I wondering if I'm missing something here. I had PCMCIA stuff working : for a NE2000 ethernet card but not for serial ports. That is correct, at least for -current. : Does anyone have : serial ports working (ie. modems or se

Re: allocate file blocks contiguously

1999-06-06 Thread Mark Newton
Zhihui Zhang wrote: > My feeling is that if we allocate ALL the data blocks of a big file > contiguously, this will lead to "too much localization" as described in > the paper (or the book). However, this may be good for this big file if > the system buffering capability and hardware allow it

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-06 Thread Arun Sharma
Brian Feldman writes: > In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all > a new one. This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to > lock in inode. It's easy to induce, but I have no idea how I'd go > about fixing it myself (being very new to that part of the >

Re: Man pages for review

1999-06-06 Thread Wes Peters
Christopher Sedore wrote: > > One other thing which should be noted in the docs, or fixed in the kernel. > The aiocb struct should be bzeroed before an aio_read or aio_write because > if you happen to have garbage in the private part of the structure, the io > can be synchronous (look at the first

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-06 Thread John S. Dyson
Arun Sharma said: > bread > ffs_read > ffs_getpages > vnode_pager_getpages > vm_fault > --- > slow_copyin > ffs_write > vn_write > dofilewrite > write > syscall > > getblk finds that the buffer is marked B_BUSY and sleeps on it. But I > can't figure out who marked it busy. > This looks l