Locking etc. (Long, boring, redundant, newbie questions)

Hello again, I know this is trivial material but I believe I have finally come to an understanding about some things that I have been struggling with. Maybe by putting this in words I can help some other newbies like myself who are hoping to eventually understand more advanced topics and contribu

Re: Locking etc. (Long, boring, redundant, newbie questions)

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Duane Whitty wrote: I know this is trivial material but I believe I have finally come to an understanding about some things that I have been struggling with. Maybe by putting this in words I can help some other newbies like myself who are hoping to eventually understand m

Re: Have people started working on any Google Summer of code 2007project?

Quoting Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:16:27 +0200): Reference: From: "ajay gopalakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is FreeBSD restricting non-students from not taking up any project that is 'suitable for summer of code'? No. This markup was only done

Help with ELF's ".symtab" section

Hi, Can anybody give me some reference about the ".symtab" section of the ELF file. I've read the "Tool interface standard specification 1.2" but there is very poor information about that section there. I'm doing a code generator and I need to know how exactly that section work. Thanks

Pthreads signals

How do signals work with pthreads in FreeBSD. How are process signals delivered? - Peter - Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. ___ freebsd-hackers@fr

Re: Pthreads signals

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Peter Holmes wrote: How do signals work with pthreads in FreeBSD. How are process signals delivered? The best explanation of signals and threads in general is in the POSIX spec, or Butenhof's book. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_04.ht

Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 10:54, Steve Watt wrote: > } I guess it would be nice if the man page(s) mentioned that a firewall > could } cause EPERM. I have seen it before with other apps but the sendto() > confused } me. > > It's one of those unpleasant interactions between pluggable subsystems, >