Re: [patch] reminding developers to check for duplicates in ObsoleteFiles.inc and tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

2010-11-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Best (from Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:58:37 +): this change has been discussed on develop...@. Committed (r215669) with a little modification to the description. Bye, Alexander. -- Nature is a mother. http://www.Leidinger.netAlexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7

Re: syscall provider naming convention. Re: kern/152822: [patch] DTrace: syscall provider for compat/freebsd32

2010-12-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:43:05 -0800 Artem Belevich wrote: > Hi, > > I'm tinkering with DTrace syscall provider for COMPAT_FREEBSD32 and > linuxulator binaries and I wonder what would be the best way to name > those providers. Maybe a little bit related: do you know about my (unfortunately out-of

Re: syscall provider naming convention. Re: kern/152822: [patch] DTrace: syscall provider for compat/freebsd32

2010-12-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:38:32 -0800 Artem Belevich wrote: > Functionally both approaches are about the same functionally. Each has > pluses and minuses. Using module, though, looks somewhat cleaner. I agree. Bye, Alexander. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.

Re: [rfc] Replacing FNV and hash32 with Paul Hsieh's SuperFastHash

2011-01-20 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Gleb Kurtsou (from Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:46:20 +0200): Hi, I've recently noticed that hash table use in nullfs was inefficient, 1/3 to half of buckets remained unused. I've started investigating it further and came across SuperFastHash hashing function, SFH (SuperFastHash) has BSD lice

CFR: FEATURE macros for AUDIT/CAM/IPC/KTR/MAC/NFS/NTP/PMC/SYSV/...

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, during the last GSoC various FEATURE macros where added to the system. Before committing them, I would like to get some review (like if macro is in the correct file, and for those FEATURES where the description was not taken from NOTES if the description is OK). If nobody complains, I

Re: CFR: FEATURE macros for AUDIT/CAM/IPC/KTR/MAC/NFS/NTP/PMC/SYSV/...

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting John Baldwin (from Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:51:52 -0500): On Friday, February 11, 2011 4:30:28 am Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, during the last GSoC various FEATURE macros where added to the system. Before committing them, I would like to get some review (like if macro is in the correct

Re: CFR: FEATURE macros for AUDIT/CAM/IPC/KTR/MAC/NFS/NTP/PMC/SYSV/...

2011-02-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:52:48 + (GMT) Robert Watson wrote: > The one comment I'd make is that the MAC case should indicate that > "The MAC Framework" is supported, rather than mandatory access > controls being present -- the presence of the framework doesn't imply > the presence of mandatory a

Re: CFR: FEATURE macros for AUDIT/CAM/IPC/KTR/MAC/NFS/NTP/PMC/SYSV/...

2011-02-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:38:06 +0300 Anonymous wrote: > Alexander Leidinger writes: > > > Hi, > > > > during the last GSoC various FEATURE macros where added to the > > system. Before committing them, I would like to get some review > > (like if macro i

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-02-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Juergen Lock (from Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:36:11 +0100): And here comes the patch for head: linux_dvb.h is still GPLed (not taking into account that there are voices which tell that interface descriptions are not copyrightable or something like this). As already told this is a no-g

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-02-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Juergen Lock (from Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:37:53 +0100): On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Juergen Lock (from Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:36:11 +0100): > And here comes the patch for head: linux_dvb.h is still GPLed (not taking into account t

Re: CFR: FEATURE macros for AUDIT/CAM/IPC/KTR/MAC/NFS/NTP/PMC/SYSV/...

2011-02-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Robert Watson (from Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:08:59 + (GMT)): On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:52:48 + (GMT) Robert Watson wrote: The one comment I'd make is that the MAC case should indicate that "The MAC Framework" is su

dtrace sdt problem: my fault or a generic problem (SYSINIT not working as expected for modules)?

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, I'm in the process of adding some SDT probes to the linuxulator. Unfortunately I get a kernel panic while doing a "dtrace -l -P linuxulator". What I see in kgdb puzzles me. Maybe someone can help out? The id of the provider is 0x0, I would expect this is a little problem. Debugging se

Re: dtrace sdt problem: my fault or a generic problem (SYSINIT not working as expected for modules)?

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Andriy Gapon (from Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:56:56 +0200): on 25/03/2011 11:52 Alexander Leidinger said the following: As I read it, it looks a little bit like the SYSINIT of the SDT probes didn't work as expected for my new probes (does this work in modules? fxr.watson.org AFAICS

Re: dtrace sdt problem: my fault or a generic problem (SYSINIT not working as expected for modules)?

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Leidinger (from Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:14:49 +0100): Quoting Andriy Gapon (from Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:56:56 +0200): on 25/03/2011 11:52 Alexander Leidinger said the following: As I read it, it looks a little bit like the SYSINIT of the SDT probes didn't work as exp

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Baptiste Daroussin (from Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:11:11 +0100): pkgng is a binary package manager written from scratch for FreeBSD. I didn't had a look at it, just some comments about some parts you explained. features supported are or will be : - the register command can analyse el

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Baptiste Daroussin (from Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:14:52 +0100): 2011/3/25 Alexander Leidinger : Quoting Baptiste Daroussin (from Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:11:11 +0100): pkgng is a binary package manager written from scratch for FreeBSD. I didn't had a look at it, just some comments

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:35:21 +0100 Pietro Cerutti wrote: > On 2011-Mar-25, 15:03, Julien Laffaye wrote: > > >>> What about DB corruption/loss? Do you keep > > >>> the /var/db/pkg//xxx files even with pkgng and only > > >>> use the DB as a way to speed up some work (so > > >>> the DB corruption j

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:47:13 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Alexander Leidinger > wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:35:21 +0100 Pietro Cerutti > > wrote: > > > >> On 2011-Mar-25, 15:03, Julien Laffaye wrote: > >> > &

Re: Prebind from OpenBSD

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jesse Smith (from Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:29:20 -0300): Thanks very much for the reply. I had thought this was a project/port that was in progress, rather than something waiting on research. Do you know if that's also the case with other projects on the Ideas list? A lot of them don't hav

Re: ask for soc project & idea

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting husaini harun (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:45:59 +): example I would like to join existing projects, will have to submit proposal too ? Yes. This is because we want to see if you have a more or less good idea what you can do during the GSoC and if you understand the complexity

Re: ask about Document all sysctls - gsoc 2011

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting husaini harun (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:20:51 +): I am interested to participate "Document all sysctls" - gsoc 2011 could provide specific to this project, such as how to start a project, in addition, I was FreeBSD 8.2, ZFS users, I have yet to send proposal on freebsd-hackers a

Re: E-Mail if updates available?

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jo Galara (from Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:31:27 +0200): Hi, on Debian I'm using apticron which sends me an email if there are updates available for installed packages. Is there a similar program for FreeBSD? If you have portupgrade installed you can change /etc/periodic.conf: ---snip--- we

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:02:03 -0700 "Devin Teske" wrote: > I was thinking that what we ought to do is support *both* numbers > *and* letters. Sounds good to me. > I envision the menuitem numbers remaining unchanged (1-7), allowing > those familiar with the numbers to use them. > > However, as f

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:55:12 -0700 "Devin Teske" wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Alexander Leidinger [mailto:alexan...@leidinger.net] > > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 1:34 PM > > To: Devin Teske > > Cc: 'Mike Meyer'; 'Free

Re: ZFS pool lost

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Stefan Esser (from Thu, 05 May 2011 13:04:59 +0200): Sorry for the follow-up to my own posting, but I noticed, that I left out significant information. The system is an Athlon64 (X2, but was running with SMP disabled at the time) in 32 bit mode (i386) with 4GB RAM running 8-STABLE in a

Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.4

2011-05-08 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 8 May 2011 10:48:55 -0700 Devin Teske wrote: > I would like to see general consensus from the community for > separating the items before moving ahead with such a non-trivial > change. IMO: - I agree that there are two different types of actions - having 2 distinct blocks looks like a

Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.4

2011-05-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 8 May 2011 13:45:55 -0700 Devin Teske wrote: > On May 8, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 May 2011 10:48:55 -0700 Devin Teske > > wrote: > > > >> I would like to see general consensus from the community for > >>

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:56:40 -0700 Sean Bruno wrote: > Silly thing I ran into today. User wanted to NFS mount a dir inside a > jail. After I groaned about the security implication of this, I noted > that there is a sysctl that looks like it should allow this. Namely, > security.jail.mount_allo

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Arnaud Lacombe (from Wed, 18 May 2011 22:37:24 -0400): Hi, On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: There are some file systems types that can't be securely mounted within a jail no matter what, like UFS, MSDOFS, EXTFS, XFS, REISERFS, NTFS, etc.  because the

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko wrote: > doesn't have access to it anymore either. Running an X server in a > vimage has some issues. Most are pretty easy to over-come. Are you using my patch (http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/0_jail.diff) + a custom devfs

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-20 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Doug Ambrisko (from Thu, 19 May 2011 14:38:40 -0700 (PDT)): Alexander Leidinger writes: | On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko | wrote: | | > doesn't have access to it anymore either. Running an X server in a | > vimage has some issues. Most are pre

X11 in a jail (was: Re: NFS mount inside jail fails)

2011-05-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Doug Ambrisko (from Wed, 25 May 2011 09:42:20 -0700 (PDT)): CCing jails@ Alexander Leidinger writes: | Quoting Doug Ambrisko (from Thu, 19 May 2011 | 14:38:40 -0700 (PDT)): | | > Alexander Leidinger writes: | > | On Thu, 19 May 2011 10:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko | >

Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Kurt Lidl (from Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:06:45 -0400): On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: Second, the perl/tcl interpreter support; you can apply a perl/tcl command to the file whiling you are editing. I beg no one here used this feature before. Bzzt. I've used t

Re: Is there a step by step howto for dtrace on 9.0 ?

2011-10-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 20:05:21 +0800 Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > the subject says it all - does anyone have a step by step howto for > doing userland and kernel dtrace on 9.0? Are you talking about the setup of dtrace? -> Wiki Are you talking about how to trace something? -> Solaris Dynamic T

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, yesterday I wrote some words in my how we could put the power how long a branch lives a little bit more into he hands of the users. It's available at http://www.leidinger.net/blog/ and also has some sentences how we could improve our knowledge about what bugs our users the most. Maybe it g

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-20 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, I think some tools could help here. If users are able to submit patches to branches they are interested in and some automatic compile/style/whatever testing for them, it would already help. See http://www.leidinger.net/blog/ for a more detailed explanation of this. Bye, Alexander. -- Sen

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-20 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting per...@pluto.rain.com (from Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:13:48 -0800): Doug Barton wrote: On 02/18/2012 10:43, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> loading modules through loader.conf is >> veeryy slooww ... > > Is it noticeably slower to load (say)

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Mehmet Erol Sanliturk (from Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:57:00 -0500): On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Alexander Leidinger < alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: The goal of my work is to produce something like GENERIC+more, just as much as possible loaded as kld's (the "+m

Re: DTrace: Where do we run CTFCONVERT for kernel modules

2012-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Shrikanth Kamath (from Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:24:19 +0530): ...meaning, I see the following line in "sys/conf/kmod.mk", but that is a CTFMERGE command. .if defined(MK_CTF) && ${MK_CTF} != "no" ${CTFMERGE} ${CTFFLAGS} -o ${.TARGET} ${OBJS} .endif Where do we run the CTFCONVERT on ke

Re: CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-04 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:27:43 -0700 Jerry Toung wrote: > On 4/3/12, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > It would be interesting to see your patch. I always run HEAD but > > maybe I could use it as a base for my own mods/tests. > > > > Here is the patch This looks fair if all your disks are working at

Re: Solving the great resource problem, take 42 (Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:06:15 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Royce Williams > wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Adrian Chadd > > wrote: > >> On 13 June 2012 21:26, Mark Linimon wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:50:24AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote

Re: Solving the great resource problem, take 42 (Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:32:08 -0800 Royce Williams wrote: > Even one item from my wish list would lower the branches so that more > people could reach the fruit. :-) Well... maybe this year for the crashdump auto-submit part. For the rest I suggest to provide some text suitable for the ideas list

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-06-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:33:17 -0700 Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > My advise is to leave disk mirroring to H/W or firmware solutions and > use FreeBSD mirroring for FreeBSD partitions only. If you want to > mirror the whole disk, don't partition the disk with non-FreeBSD > partitioning schemes and part

priv_check/make_dev/devfs.rules: What is preventing a device to show up in a jail?

2013-05-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, big picture: I want to get access to my USB DVB device in a jail. First I explain what works (to show what I already know in this regard), then I explain what doesn't work (where I seem to lack some knowledge). What I did so far: I already patched my kernel to give access to /dev/io and /dev/

Re: priv_check/make_dev/devfs.rules: What is preventing a device to show up in a jail?

2013-05-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
line to the jail's fstab file. It should give > full access to everything in the host's /dev. > > On 5/9/2013 4:07 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > big picture: I want to get access to my USB DVB device in a jail. > > First I explain wha

Re: priv_check/make_dev/devfs.rules: What is preventing a device to show up in a jail?

2013-05-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 10 May 2013 13:43:47 +0200 Uffe Jakobsen wrote: > On 2013-05-10 12:11, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > I worry about what is going on. We have something which is supposed > > to provide security as required, but is does not seem to work as > > described

Re: Order of canonical upgrade sequence

2013-05-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
> On May 29, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > Back in 2005, when Alexander Leidinger wrote the make delete-old > > target, he documented the order of upgrade such that it should be > > run before mergemaster [1]; > > > > #

Re: sin()/cos()/tan() for kernel code? '_ 'a

2007-02-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:00:12 -0600 (CST)): On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Daniel Eischen wrote: Can't you do this in userland? Teach moused? Since you will only need sin and cos evalu

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-02-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Olivier Warin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:54:09 +0100): This issue is not only related to portupgrade, pkg_add a new port takes far too long now... and make index each time I upgrade my ports is awfull too. Regarding "make index": try "make fetchindex" right after t

Re: How to contribute to the pkg_* tools project ?

2007-02-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Lockless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:30:19 +0100): We (Lucas H. and Alexandre C.) are two young students from France. We have a quite good theoretical knowledge of C programing, but we would like to improve our experience in real projects. So we looked at the Projects

Re: HEADS UP: interrupt filtering & newbus API breakage

2007-02-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Hans Petter Selasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:03:42 +0100): > Was __FreeBSD_version bumped when this change was introduced? Yes (700031). Not in the same commit, but shortly after it. Bye, Alexander. -- BOFH excuse #151: Some one needed the powerstrip, so they pulled t

Re: Anybody working on 'Super tunnel Daemon'. I would like to join in this project.

2007-02-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting ajay gopalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:25:26 +0530): Hey all, Anybody started work on the project 'Super tunnel Daemon' ? I was searching for some project for some time. And i recently came to know about this project at the project ideas page of FreeBSD. I r

Re: Floating-point in kernel space

2007-03-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting "Michael M. Press" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:10:25 -0500): > > I think i've seen somewhere but i don't remember that floating point > > arithmetic is not allowed in kernel space, if that's right, can anyone > > please tell why ??? > > and why not not emulate the floating poin

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

2007-03-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting "ajay gopalakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:53:11 +0530): > Have people started working on any Google Summer of code 2007 project? I saw > some project ideas marked as "Suitable for Summer of code" on the project > ideas web page. But have any of those projects been tak

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

2007-03-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
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

RE: Deny system call using ptrace

2007-04-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Thijs Eilander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 2 Apr 2007 00:48:20 +0200): If you are interested in doing some development to make it work, I am porting systrace to FreeBSD but due to time restrictions development is slow. More information about systrace can be found on http://www.citi.

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

2007-04-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
n project is taken by a SoC student. I suggest you talk with mlaier@ (project mentor) if there's a way to collaborate. Bye, Alexander. Awaiting a reply, Ajay. On 3/26/07, Julian H. Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting "ajay gopalakrishnan&quo

Re: prebind support status

2007-04-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Tyrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:24:16 +0300): Has anyone started working on porting 'prebind' from OpenBSD? We are not aware of such work. Has there been any discussion over this matter; as to how much work this would require ? I would be interested into looking

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 11 May 2007 10:33:29 +0200): The existence of .la files is a bug. I fully agree. We already have a mechanism for recording dependencies between libraries; it's built into the ELF format, and does not require hardcoding any directo

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 14 May 2007 11:31:25 +0200): Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The existence of .la files is a bug. I fully agree [but this needs to be addressed

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 14 May 2007 13:44:37 +0200): Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Isn't this a property which can be set at build time? I mean: isn't there a $OSNAME case where this can be set for a specific OS? S

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 14 May 2007 14:27:33 +0200): Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If this works well, you just have to submit this patch to the libtool maintainers and wait until all (relevant) software packages are update

Re: Using shell commands versus C equivalents

2007-06-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:55:18 -0700): Another simple question (I hope): Is there any reason why shell commands should be used in place of a C command (in this case chmod via vsystem instead of the chmod(2) function)? It seems like the fork / exec

Re: Using shell commands versus C equivalents

2007-06-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:17:18 -0700 (PDT)): On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: Now another question is whether the pkg_* tools can handle multiple processes managing the ports at the same time. For the mostpart, this is true. Without looking at the code,

Re: rewrite src/sys/i386/i386/in_cksum.c

2007-07-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting zhouyi zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:55:47 +0800): Hey, Since FreeBSD update gcc from 3.4.x to 4.2.0, the FreeBSD gdb remote debugger in i386 platform will find the TCP/UPD checksum will not be computed right, when calling macro in_cksum which calls in_cksum

Re: Audio driver template

2007-07-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Christopher Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:47:14 -0700): http://people.freebsd.org/~cg/template.c Thought I would take a look at the audio driver template as part of my task to modernize drivers, soc2007. I would simplify the read and write functions to avoid using

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:46:11 -0500): > I appreciate that most people won't have this problem, but it has bitten me. > > After you have made and installed a port, but don't clean it, and then > made a bunch of other ports, if you go back to the

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:16:56 -0500): > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 > > 19:46:11 -0500): > >> It seems to me that the cure is t

Re: Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

2007-07-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:11:47 -0500): > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 > > 19:46:11 -0500): > > > >> I appreciate that most people

Re: Hierarchical jails - any current work?

2007-09-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting James Gritton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:03:12 -0600): I've been doing some work on a hierarchical jail setup, but I've got this nagging feeling it's been done before. Does anyone know of such an existing project? If not, I'll put forward my own code. At http:/

Re: Pluggable Disk Scheduler Project

2007-10-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Fabio Checconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:48:28 +0200): From: Ulf Lilleengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 10:07:34AM +0200 On tor, okt 11, 2007 at 04:20:01 +0200, Fabio Checconi wrote: > o What can be an interface for disk schedulers? I think t

Re: Project Ideas and a question

2007-10-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting David Naylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:59:45 +0200): > I have some project ideas (due to lack of technical skills I can not pursue > them at this time but that is no reason not to share :-). If someone thinks > an idea is a good one could you please add it to the appropri

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Fred Bertram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:40:23 +0800): Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software community in some way. I enjoy C programming in particular, havn't really mastered it or other languages. I'd like to practice by d

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:47:33 -0800): > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. > > > > George Bush? I don't know. It's output from fortune, so you

Re: How to add wake on lan support for your card (was: Re: FreeBSD WOL sis on)

2007-11-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Stefan Sperling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:06:18 +0100): > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:13:28PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Well, I hope I haven't missed anything important, but I guess > > > that's about it. > > > > Wow ! seems like you spent a fair time assembling t

Re: How to add wake on lan support for your card (was: Re: FreeBSD WOL sis on)

2007-11-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Remko Lodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:19:36 +0100 (CET)): On Thu, November 29, 2007 12:01 am, Stefan Sperling wrote: OK, I've created an account in the wiki. My login is StefanSperling Thanks :) I added you to the list. I created http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wa

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-01 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:49:03 -0800): This is better suited in emulation@ > I am trying to run Linux version of Skype and am getting the following error: > /usr/home/yuri/skype/current/skype: error while loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib/librt.so.1: ELF file OS AB

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:01:46 + (GMT)): > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Have a look at the search order of libs in linux. Correlate this with the > > fact that when in linux an access is done t

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:07:55 +0100): > Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 1 Dec 2007 23:01:46 + > (GMT)): > > > > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > >

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:23:33 -0500): You've gotten some good suggestions, but I might add one more, I don't think it's been mentioned. I have foound, myself in the last 2 weeks, some FreeBSD ports putting in Linux tools, installing stuff in the wrong

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-05 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:30:50 -0500): Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:23:33 -0500): You've gotten some good suggestions, but I might add one more, I don't think i

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:33:18 -0500): Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:30:50 -0500): Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 02

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alex Dupre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:52:15 +0100): Alexander Leidinger ha scritto: To achieve this goal we have 2 possibilities, either we install everything into LINUXBASE and install a wrapper in LOCALBASE, or we install everything in a safe locat

Re: Linux version of libusb that works with FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:26:58 +1030): I am wondering if anyone has tried building such a beast? ie a Lunux libusb that will be able to access devices in FreeBSD.. The reason I'd like it is that I want to use this http://rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/ i

Re: Linux version of libusb that works with FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:39:39 +1030): On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: AFAIR HPS' USB stack has linux compatibility, maybe you should ask him / have a look at it. I had a look at the code but I can't see a

Re: Anybody have a patch for pdksh derivatives, for jails?

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting cali clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:42:01 +0100): Hi. pdksh and derivatives (openbsd ksh, mirbsd mksh etc) all have the same "bug" with regards to jails. On all of my systems, trying to start *ksh in a jail results in a message that /dev/tty could not be opened (

Re: Modular type GENERIC?

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:26:04 +0900): G'day, I was just wondering why we're not shipping a GENERIC type configuration that simply loads the modules at startup, rather than a statically linked kernel. I thought that was a large part of the push for th

Re: Preparing an Oracle Database XE port/package -- any tips ?

2008-03-07 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Adrian Penisoara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:36:56 +0200): Hi, After having to deploy an Oracle Database XE [1] installation (with Linux 32bit binaries from the official RPM package) on a production FreeBSD 6.2machine I realized it would be very much feasible to pro

Re: Documentation on writing a custom socket

2008-03-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:33:36 -0700): Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2008, Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: For example, do you anticipate using or even needing the routing facilities, and ho

Re: Is describing sysctl variables useful?

2008-04-04 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Sofian Brabez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 4 Apr 2008 05:11:41 +0200): About syscl(3) OID description lack, i send my Google Summer Code application to complete it this summer ;). Unfortunately this is not suitable for the SoC. Google wants code contributions, not pure documenta

Re: Announcing PathDB

2010-05-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 29 May 2010 23:17:40 +0700 "C. Bergström" wrote: > Thordur I Bjornsson wrote: > >> PathScale is slowly open sourcing and porting some of our core > >> software technology and thought the BSD community might be > >> interested in PathDB. Months ago we gave a few FBSD developers You may w

Re: GSoC: registration of optional kernel features via sysctl: a question to the community

2010-06-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Kostik Belousov (from Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:25:43 +0300): I can not think of any viable reason why one would want to "spoof" this when it is not available. Many ports are doing wrong thing there, checking for run-time features at the build-time, turning on/off some functionality dependi

Re: GSoC: registration of optional kernel features via sysctl: a question to the community

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting jhell (from Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:54:16 -0400): That would lead me to believe that the elimination of this sysctl would be better suited to solve the outcome of cases like this. And leads me to believe that it still rests on the end-user to tell whether or not they have that compatibilit

Re: GSoC: registration of optional kernel features via sysctl: a question to the community

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
gt;> Hi hackers! >>> >>> While discussing my project's implementation details with my mentor, >>> Alexander Leidinger, we've found that one of the ideas needs to be discussed with community, >>> to find out possible use cases. >>> That is,

Re: GSoC: registration of optional kernel features via sysctl: a question to the community

2010-06-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Adrian Chadd (from Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:28:58 +0800): How about exposing a simple userspace API for doing this, rather than doing it via sysctl? That way you could "simply" tie alternative overrides in as needed for builds (eg, environment variables setting overrides; and/or pointing

Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management

2010-09-01 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Motin (from Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:10:00 +0300): I have actively tested this code for a few days on my amd64 Core2Duo laptop and i386 Core-i5 desktop system. With C2/C3 states enabled systems experience only about 100-150 interrupts per second, having HZ set to 1000. These even

Re: Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

2010-10-04 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Paul B Mahol (from Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:53:26 +): Hi, diff --git a/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc b/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc index d3aa4b2..2123107 100644 --- a/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc +++ b/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc @@ -141,

Re: Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Paul B Mahol (from Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:01:45 +): On 10/4/10, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Paul B Mahol (from Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:53:26 +): Hi, diff --git a/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc b/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc index d3aa4b2..2123107

Re: Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Gonzalo Nemmi (from Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:30:00 +0200): On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/4/10, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:01:45AM +, Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/4/10, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > At least status-mailq is st

Re: Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting rank1see...@gmail.com (from Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:48:23 +0200): - Original Message - From: Alexander Leidinger To: Gonzalo Nemmi Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:23 +0200 Subject: Re: Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc As the one who wrote the

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