Re: crash partition

2002-03-03 Thread Michael Lucas
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 06:20:09PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Make a separate swap partition for each since you are going to be > using the disk space anyway if you go with another setup. Hmmm... yes, suppose you're right. Thanks for directing me to the obvious. -- Michael Lucas

Re: Multicast problem with sis interface?

2002-03-03 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, The padding thing is a red herring - sorry about that. The real problem seems to be the interface's filtering, because setting the interface promiscuous makes the problem go away. See kern/35511 for details and a workaround. I imagine the proper fix is a 2 minute job for someone who under

A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Conrad Sabatier
Am I just completely stupid, or do we have a few things that could use a little cleaning up in /usr/include as well as in the man page for kvm_*? System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 1) The man page for the kvm_* functions lists the following #include dependencies: #include #include #

Re: A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Ian
> > In : > > /* > * pargs, used to hold a copy of the command line, if it had a sane > * length > */ > struct pargs { > u_int ar_ref; /* Reference count */ > u_int ar_length; /* Length */ > u_char ar_args[0]; /* Arguments */ > }; > > This does indeed seem to make little o

Re: A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, Ian wrote: > > > > In : > > > > /* > > * pargs, used to hold a copy of the command line, if it had a sane > > * length > > */ > > struct pargs { > > u_int ar_ref; /* Reference count */ > > u_int ar_length; /* Length */ > > u_char ar_ar

December 2001, January 2002 Bi-Monthly FreeBSD Status Report

2002-03-03 Thread Robert Watson
Attached below, please find the text version of the bi-monthloy status report. It's actually been up on the web for a few days. Apologies for any delays :-). It's worth noting that report submission has dropped off a bit for this report, and I hope for better on the next report, for

Re: A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
On Sunday 03 March 2002 10:19 am, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Am I just completely stupid, or do we have a few things that could use a > little cleaning up in /usr/include as well as in the man page for kvm_*? > > System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE > > 2) If compiling with the -pedantic switch, one might see

periodic firewire max-out question

2002-03-03 Thread John Kozubik
I still do not yet own 63 firewire devices, and so, once again, I am wondering if anyone here has ever actually connected 128 devices to a firewire host adaptor and had operational success... (or heard reports of it being successfully done in the wild ?) Comments welcome. thanks. - John K

Re: A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
On Sunday 03 March 2002 01:00 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, Ian wrote: > > > In : > > > > > > /* > > > * pargs, used to hold a copy of the command line, if it had a sane > > > * length > > > */ > > > struct pargs { > > > u_int ar_ref; /* Reference

Re: A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Terry Lambert
"Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote: > I can't even imagine how one *would* write a compiler where this would > fail--does anybody know the putative risk that led ANSI to "ban" this (IMHO) > perfectly-reasonable bahvior? Order of structure elements is undefined. Zero length arrays are undefined. Als

Re: A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Greg Black
Terry Lambert wrote: | Order of structure elements is undefined. Zero length arrays | are undefined. Also, packing is undefined. Close, but no cigar. The /order/ is defined in C89 (Section 6.5.2.1) with the following words: Within a structure object, the non-bit-field members and the

Re: A few questions about a few includes

2002-03-03 Thread Conrad Sabatier
Thanks for all the very interesting followups, folks. I learned something today! I really must start reading this list more often. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bennett's Laws of Horticulture: (1) Houses are for people to live in. (2) Gardens are for plants to li