FreeBSD and Information handling

2007-06-16 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I was wondering if there was any tool available in freebsd for handling information, specifically configuration files, package information and such. I know all information is available via text files however in order to access the information the program might have to hard code the retreva

Re: FreeBSD and Information handling

2007-06-16 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Saturday, 16 June 2007 at 14:22:50 +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there was any tool available in freebsd for handling > information, specifically configuration files, package information and such. > I know all information is available via text files however in order

Re: FreeBSD and Information handling

2007-06-16 Thread Ivan Voras
David Naylor wrote: > So: > 1) What tools are there for accessing information (i.e. libraries)? > 2) If so is there any unification of the interface? > 3) If no to any of the above, is there a need for such tools and should it be > a unified interface (not just specific subsets)? If everything g

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Dieter
So who, exactly, is the best person to write to requesting docs for AMD/ATI graphics/video chips? We need to politely inform them that There are a lot of operating systems out there, and they all need high quality, fully functional drivers. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan-9

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Dieter wrote.. > So who, exactly, is the best person to write to requesting > docs for AMD/ATI graphics/video chips? > > We need to politely inform them that > > There are a lot of operating systems out there, > and they all need high quality,

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Dieter wrote.. So who, exactly, is the best person to write to requesting docs for AMD/ATI graphics/video chips? We need to politely inform them that There are a lot of operating systems out there, and they all nee

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:16:48PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Dieter wrote.. > > > >>So who, exactly, is the best person to write to requesting > >>docs for AMD/ATI graphics/video chips? > >> > >>We need to politely inform them

Re: Using shell commands versus C equivalents

2007-06-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tim Kientzle wrote: As Joerg said, though, you're not likely to gain much from this. pkg_install is almost entirely disk bound. Going back to this particular comment, has anybody really looked into the speed of mtree(3)? That was the next stop that I planned on looking at after I make my ch

Re: Using shell commands versus C equivalents

2007-06-16 Thread Tim Kientzle
Also, were the bottlenecks seen in pkg_delete and pkg_add, or does it appear to be distributed across the board? The biggest time sink in pkg_add is writing each file to a temp dir then copying it to its final location. There are a couple of strategies for avoiding this (by writing the files

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread mal content
What does this program do? #include int main(void) { printf("%u\n", 0x2a); return 0; } Docs are more important than drivers. Please ask for docs. MC ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hac

Re: Using shell commands versus C equivalents

2007-06-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tim Kientzle wrote: Also, were the bottlenecks seen in pkg_delete and pkg_add, or does it appear to be distributed across the board? The biggest time sink in pkg_add is writing each file to a temp dir then copying it to its final location. There are a couple of strategies for avoiding this