Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Trever writes: > With regard to 8.0 RC2&3, simply using the src/install.sh script for > the src works without the errors and corrupted files. I wonder why we still bother splitting the tarballs... it's not like anyone is going to try installing 8.0 from floppies. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:47:28 -0500 Jim Wilcoxson wrote: > I've been working on a new backup program, HashBackup, and believe I > have found a memory leak with ACLs in PCBSD/FreeBSD 7.1 and OSX > (Leopard). > > acl_from_text is a function that takes a text string as input, and > returns a pointer

how to build libthr except other components of 'world'

2009-11-16 Thread Jiandong Lu
--- 09年11月16日，周一, Jiandong Lu 写道： 发件人: Jiandong Lu 主题: how to build libthr except other components of 'world' 收件人: freebsd-thre...@freebsd.org 日期: 2009年11月16日,周一,下午6:48 Hi,everyone,     I checkout FreeBSD‘s source codes to my /usr/src     I use command     make buildworld     int directory

Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:51:56 +0100 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Trever writes: > > With regard to 8.0 RC2&3, simply using the src/install.sh script for > > the src works without the errors and corrupted files. > > I wonder why we still bother splitting the tarballs... it's not like > anyone is

Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bruce Cran writes: > See > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-October/052241.html > - apparently people are still wanting to install from floppies. The mind boggles. If you can't boot from CD-ROM, use a USB stick. If you can't boot from a USB stick, use PXE. If your NIC doe

Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > If you really want to install 7.2 from floppies, you will need 76 disks > just to get a bootable system. For 8.0, you will need 84. That's for i386, btw. For amd64, the numbers are 83 for 7.2 and 93 for 8.0. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no __

Re: bad source in the distro iso's

2009-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Bruce Cran writes: See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-October/052241.html - apparently people are still wanting to install from floppies. The mind boggles. If you can't boot from CD-ROM, use a USB stick. If you can't boot from a USB stick,

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread volker
On 01/-10/63 20:59, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: > I've been working on a new backup program, HashBackup, and believe I > have found a memory leak with ACLs in PCBSD/FreeBSD 7.1 and OSX > (Leopard). > > acl_from_text is a function that takes a text string as input, and > returns a pointer to a malloc'd ac

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:47 +0100 vol...@vwsoft.com wrote: > you may want to have a look at the manpage acl_from_text(3): > > "...This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should > free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by > calling acl_free(3) with

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
The man page is correct and should not be changed. In the example program I submitted, it does call acl_free; this is not where the leak occurs. The leak occurs because of a temporary string that acl_from_text allocates to parse the text. Jim On 11/16/09, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread volker
On 11/16/09 22:21, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: > The man page is correct and should not be changed. > > In the example program I submitted, it does call acl_free; this is not > where the leak occurs. The leak occurs because of a temporary string > that acl_from_text allocates to parse the text. > > Jim