libc threadsafe ?

2001-05-20 Thread Arun Sharma
I see some changes to -current as of Jan 2001, that attempt to make libc threadsafe without -pthread and _THREAD_SAFE. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Daniel+Eischen&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2001&as_maxd=20&; as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2001&rnum=4&ic=1&selm=94a

Re: ppp problems on 4.3-RELEASE and PPPoE

2001-05-20 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to James Housley: > and I am not in Canada. I am using natd and ipfw for NAT and the > firewall. The link has a static IP if it matters. Below I am attaching > ppp.conf. I have watched some of the data with tcpdump on both tun0 and I'm also using ppp + ng_pppoe on a 4.3-STABLE syste

_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF

2001-05-20 Thread Arun Sharma
Single UNIX spec doesn't include the above sysconf(3) argument, but many UNIX variants do. What's the BSD way of doing this ? -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [pthreads-devel] Bug in pth_native.c ? + FreeBSD port

2001-05-20 Thread Arun Sharma
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:05:19AM -0400, Bill Abt wrote: > Yeah, your right about slot. It should be allocated off the heap... Hmm, > that would probably explain a few inconsistencies we've seen as well. > Thanks > > As far as incorporating your changes into the release, sure!!! Another >

Re: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF

2001-05-20 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Arun Sharma writes: > Single UNIX spec doesn't include the above sysconf(3) argument, but > many UNIX variants do. What's the BSD way of doing this ? How about the hw.ncpu sysctl? Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr System

Re: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF

2001-05-20 Thread Arun Sharma
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:57:17PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Arun Sharma writes: > > Single UNIX spec doesn't include the above sysconf(3) argument, but > > many UNIX variants do. What's the BSD way of doing this ? > > How about the hw.ncpu sysctl? Any objections to a patch implemen

syscons problem

2001-05-20 Thread Gregory Sutter
Yokota-san, I am experiencing a problem with syscons and init when I have a certain line in my kernel configuration file, and am hoping that you can fix the bug. My system is a recent 4-STABLE, although the problem also showed up in an April 24 4-STABLE. I do not have a -CURRENT box. FreeB

Re: De-setgid-ifying ipcs(1)

2001-05-20 Thread Dima Dorfman
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably not the commentary you're looking for, however the > getopt parsing shouldn't be done like this: Some comments is usually better than no comments: to have noticed this problem, you had to have at least skimmed through the other (kernel) part

Boot time memory issue

2001-05-20 Thread Barry Lustig
I was curious whether the memory limitation on the Sony VAIO Z505 machines was an actual hardware limitation or a marketing issue. I just tried adding a 256MB module to my machine. The BIOS seemed to mostly recognize it. It did see 320MB of RAM, but had problems when testing all of it. Current

background_fsck rc.conf option

2001-05-20 Thread Dima Dorfman
Does anybody object to adding a background_fsck rc.conf option to facilitate easy switching of background fsck on or off? Robert Watson suggested this on cvs-all some time ago, but the discussion drifted off. Attached is a very short patch to implement it; it basically makes rev. 1.263 of src/et

Re: background_fsck rc.conf option

2001-05-20 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Looks good! Excellent! Go for it! :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

upgrading packages

2001-05-20 Thread Eric Melville
Currently, upgrading packages is more painful than it should be. However, it would not take much work to make things significantly more friendly - 1. pkg_add - when a package is installed, it should check for an older version of itself, and if the new version provides everything

Re: syscons problem

2001-05-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 20), Gregory Sutter said: > I am experiencing a problem with syscons and init when I have a > certain line in my kernel configuration file, and am hoping that you > can fix the bug. My system is a recent 4-STABLE, although the > problem also showed up in an April 24 4-STA

vmspace leak (+ tentative fix)

2001-05-20 Thread Brian F. Feldman
There's a certain issue that when several processes sharing a vmspace are exiting at the same time, there is a race condition such that the shared memory is going to be lost because the check for vm->vm_refcnt being the check for the last decrement happening before the last decrement is actuall

Re: syscons problem

2001-05-20 Thread .
Gregory Sutter writes: > I am experiencing a problem with syscons and init when I have a > certain line in my kernel configuration file, and am hoping that > you can fix the bug. My system is a recent 4-STABLE, although > the problem also showed up in an April 24 4-STABLE. I do not > have a -C

Re: Should I worryy?

2001-05-20 Thread Marty Leisner
> I have a cdrom that defies logic: > > 1:14am harmony:/cdrom[51]> df /cdrom > Filesystem 1024-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/acd0a 54 540 100%/cdrom > 1:14am harmony:/cdrom[52]> du /cdrom > 325460/cdrom/chujiten/data > 146 /cdrom/chu

Re: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF

2001-05-20 Thread Arun Sharma
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:55PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:57:17PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > Arun Sharma writes: > > > Single UNIX spec doesn't include the above sysconf(3) argument, but > > > many UNIX variants do. What's the BSD way of doing this ?