FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for October - December 2009

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects between October and December 2009. This is the last of the four reports covering 2009, which has shown to be a very important year for the FreeBSD Project. Besides other notable things, a new major version of FreeBSD, 8.0-RELE

Re: ptrace bug or feature?

2010-01-17 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 09:01:37PM +0200, Ali Polatel wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Problem: ptrace's PT_SETREGS request can't alter system calls. > Code: http://alip.github.com/code/ptrace-freebsd-deny.c > Expected: The file foo.bar shouldn't be created. > Got: The file is created. Other efforts lik

Re: ptrace bug or feature?

2010-01-17 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote: It may be a missed feature, not a bug. There is obvious hack value in ability to modify syscall arguments from the debugger. Do you know whether other operating systems allow this ? Linux does, I've used it. -- Nate Eldredge n...@thatsmathematics.

Re: ptrace bug or feature?

2010-01-17 Thread Ali Polatel
Nate Eldredge yazmış: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > >It may be a missed feature, not a bug. There is obvious hack value > >in ability to modify syscall arguments from the debugger. > > > >Do you know whether other operating systems allow this ? > > Linux does, I've used it. Y

Weekend PR smashing

2010-01-17 Thread R. Tyler Ballance
Howdy all, I've recently taken up perusing the PR database looking for small(ish) bugs that will help me: (1) start contributing to FreeBSD again (2) familiarize myself with -CURRENT. Last weekend I knocked off #43337 (to which my patch still remains unaddressed) and started looking for more and m

limits for run away Firefox ?

2010-01-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi hackers I'm tired of my X server occasionaly freezing, swap thrasing, & firefox dumps: 4,346,937,344 ~/firefox-bin.core so as a temporary cludge I ran touch ~/firefox-bin.core ; chmod 000 ~/firefox-bin.core I could put X users in another group, & reduce limits, per man l

Re: limits for run away Firefox ?

2010-01-17 Thread jhell
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:07, jhs@ wrote: Hi hackers I'm tired of my X server occasionaly freezing, swap thrasing, & firefox dumps: 4,346,937,344 ~/firefox-bin.core so as a temporary cludge I ran touch ~/firefox-bin.core ; chmod 000 ~/firefox-bin.core I could put X users in another

what's "Exception: t_mutex::lock failed" in ports/net/twinkle/ ?

2010-01-17 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, I have installed ports/net/twinkle/ v. 1.4.2 on 8.0-RELEASE. When started, it displays the "Exception: t_mutex::lock failed" messagebox and exits after pressing the "OK" button. What is this error? I really need a SIP softphone on a FreeBSD box. Google was not particularly helpful,