.
Hmm.. sneaky :)
I should have read the man page more thoroughly it would seem.
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On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote:
> Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why
> should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured
> hardware?
Since when has PC hardware followed the specs?
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t a lot of PC's are shipped with a CDrom a secondary slave.. I'm not
saying its RIGHT but it IS reality.
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Hi,
I am looking at the STAILQ macros defined in and I am curious why
it is necessary to declare stqh_last in the STAILQ_HEAD as a pointer to
pointer, rather than just a pointer? (like the head pointer)
Please don't laugh too hard.. my head hurts :)
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args->which,
gb->g_link.stqe_next,
buildlist.stqh_last);
}
}
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n of the list (the code I showed you). The list in question is
used by _nothing_ else (the list is built and then 'transfered' to the list the
interrupt handler will used). The corruption seems to occur while the list is
being built, but only with some specific buffer sizes :-/
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that we can try to be more compatible with.
Yay.. It would be quite handy.. No more digging through the source tree for a
version of getopt.c and adding it by hand to the port..
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On 17-Aug-99 Julian Elischer wrote:
> vnc is cool, but also check out back-orafice
> (not sure where you get it but the new one can take over NT as well as
> W95)
BO2K does NT (much to MS's chagrin)...
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it works) and write some nice shell scripts
to do it automatically..
Alternativly you could just use MSDOSFS for all intermachine transfers, its
crap, but everything reads it and you don't get those nasty UID:GID problems
either ;)
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want proper username mapping shouldn't you be using a distributed user
map (like NIS)?
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override UID:GID's would be useful in a normal mount because
umapfs adds more complexity to work. (Though I can see that doing it in the
various FS's would suck royally)
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ixed it, but it might
be broken again :)
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it in your
machine.
Ahh, the complexities are endless :)
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fragile, and it works out better if we keep that information
> on the mounted media rather than on the root volume.
You could wire all the disks down.. :)
What happens with conflicting names?
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like ->
option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING
Phew, that was tough.
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;cut in half": Half duplex, but split into seperate TX and RX
> lines. I'm also looking at a scaleable way to go up or down in speed,
> without dealing with async... A layer two device if you will.
RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to noise
:)
t I feel like
> cutting into. I'm going to be bearing the financial end of this project
> of mine, so I'm going to save where I can. :-)
Well serial ports come free on all new computers ;)
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On 28-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote:
> So what's wrong with PLIP? Last time I used it, I was getting about
> 50 kB/s out of it.
PLIP has a terrible CPU/speed ratio.. You have to busy wait while bashing the
parallel port which is just yech :(
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's 20. MHz crystal oscillator and feeding it a
> lower speed signal. I'm going to walk them down to see just how far I
> can go. After all, 2 Mbps isn't bad, it just requires a little more
> work.
Ahh eeww :)
I hope you have a lot of spare time ;)
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only 8 proccess, for this current scenario.
> >
> > do you understand now, what i meant?
> >
> > Linux already have such a facility!
Hack ps and turn off procfs :)
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ly use ps on them.. Even so you could have
2 implementations of ps, or a ps which allows you to compile in a different
'back end'. That way you can use either easily.
> Unfortunately I don't have my proposal written in diff(1) at the
> moment, but writing all this out makes m
One could also #ifdef the kvm version.
Yeah.. well I await the patches 8-)
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jumpers on the mobo to help with this? The ones I have seen
(Supermicro and Epox) are labelled 'Save PD State' and 'PIIX4 Ctl'..The later
is the one you want.
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On 10-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote:
> > Does it do IMAP?
> It doesn't even do POP, I use fetchmail/procmailrc to get my email,
> which works *MUCH* better than anything else I've found.
Woe is me.
Oh well.. back to xfmail :)
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ve only seen *1* emailer which does IMAP properly (xfmail)
all the others either don't support it at all, or treat IMAP like POP (ie just
fetch mail from INBOX).
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ention Netscape.. OK no mailer with a memory footprint
smaller than 20 meg BESIDES xfmail does IMAP :)
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pe FreeBSD/NT use different mechanisms to build
> its "folder summaries" :(
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone has a similar config. (i guess
I have Cyrus IMAP on my server box and my workstation dual boots freebsd/win95
so I use xfmail under freebsd and netscape under wi
sible candidate for contrib'ifying I could see would be mount_nwfs
because building it without the kernel source could be a problem, but the rest
of it could be a port I think :)
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the 'ipfw' command a port and leave the
> kernel bits in the tree. Since all this stuff depends on being in sync,
> the only reasonable way to do this is to put it in the tree.
Why? What kernel code does this need?
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arters. :)
Bah like I care enough to care ;)
If it has a fair amount of kernel code then its a good idea..
Also as you pointed out, it aids interoperability..
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daily for all of my internal
> stuff.
No.. I meant that XFMail worked properly, but Pine didn't.
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I can find out if you want to know)
It seemed to work perfectly (SMP enabled etc etc).. I did a build world and ran
X on it.
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way to force it..
You can get 8x drives and 6x media.. Not a good idea put them together unless
you change the write speed.
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isa card.
Look in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/if_ed.c
You might want to look at something less complex like the fxp driver
(/usr/src/sys/pci/if_fxp.c). It has less cruft about PCMCIA and other junk.
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&q
On 27-Oct-99 Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> If you mean Xt (and possibly Motif) - the answer is "very carefully."
Or you could just use a toolkit written for C++ or with C++ shims already.. ie
Qt or GTK..
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On 27-Oct-99 Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> And, wasn't there a freely available C++ shim for motif floating around
> at one time?
I don't know.. My X experience begins and ends with Tk :)
(Don't like Motif either ;)
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f
h the fsck.. Of course if fsck
had to delete files then they're gone, but if you value its ability to stay up
without human intervention its handy.
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ds to become quite sluggish, while BSD
> has a better balance between keeping active processes and
> filesystem-cache.
Is there anyway to tune this behaviour under FreeBSD? I know the argument is
that 'FreeBSD is self tuning' but some of us are unable to resist fiddling =)
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> even if it's unneeded. This takes ages for me. I believe I submitted a PR
> with a 'fix' to fsck.
Yeah, the machines we have don't get shutdown except for a power failure so
that wasn't a problem :)
I'
a device on it? If not it won't show up.
If it only has a slave on it, it won't be detected either - its supposed to
have a master as well - or just a master (this might have changed recently
though)
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On 19-Nov-99 Wes Peters wrote:
> install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 obliterate.8.gz /usr/local/man8
This should install to /usr/local/man/man8
> /usr/local/man//man8/obliterate.8: No such file or directory
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On 22-Nov-99 Bryan Collins wrote:
> Anyway, I issue commans such as 'halt' and 'shutdown -h'
> but I still get a message saying its safe to turn off the power.
You need apm turned on, and then do shutdown -p now.
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evice
can be handled by your driver.
Read /usr/src/sys/pci/if_fxp.c
Actually all of /usr/src/sys/pci/* is interesting reading :)
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t to do IrDA for FreeBSD..
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turns. Replacing sleep() with nanosleep() or something else that
> is
> thread-safe should solve that problem.
Stupid question time..
If that is so why doesn't sleep just use nanosleep? :)
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fects people that port code because if the way FreeBSD works is
non standard you have to patch...
ie for just about any Linux app which does FPU stuff :)
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here was a way to make sure that when your
app closed the keyboard was unborked again..
Its really annoying having to find another machine when your app
coredumps so you can restore the keyboard to sanity :)
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On 13-Jan-00 Matthew Dillon wrote:
> The last two paragraphs are the most relevant to us.
> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-encryption.html
So does this mean we OpenSSH in the base system some time soon? :)
(Post RSA patent expiry?)
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nes but I don't know how far that got.
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On 10-Feb-00 Mark Newton wrote:
> Those clauses aren't enforcible - Yet. They will be when (if) the
> Digital Millenium Copyright Act passes.
Has it been proposed yet? (For .au)
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On 10-Feb-00 Mark Newton wrote:
> > Has it been proposed yet? (For .au)
> Not for .au, no. Give us five years, though... the companies
> pushing
> the DMCA have a lot of cash...
True, as long as I don't have to panic yet :)
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get a NO CARRIER back how do I know to read that as a
> command instead of data?
Your '+++ATH0' won't work because there is no delay between the +++ and the
ATH0. ie do '+++' wait 2 seconds then send 'ATH0'
Or you could set the modem to go into comma
disable it (otherwise you get dropped with a simple ping...).
>The default value is 43 ('+').
Depends how cheap your modem is.. Hayes patented the guard time between the
+'s and the ATH0. They license this, but some modem vendors are too cheap to
implement it..
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figure X by hand).
It adds distributions and packages automatically though.
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eg b is dependant on a?
Try looking at the miibus code for network devices..
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On 15-Mar-00 Adam Crawford wrote:
> Whats involved in doing it myself?
Read the Linux source and find out how it talks to the card
Read the FreeBSD source for an equivalent device
Write the FreeBSD device.
Simple! :)
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depends on the bug, sometimes you'll just spin forever, or end up keeping
processes stuck in your driver etc.. Othertimes the system will panic (ie try to
reference memory you shouldn't etc..)
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55 to
'debug' but pressing the keys don't trigger it :(
Does anyone know if/how I can use them? Suggestions thus far have been to
patch syscons to print all the scan codes it gets :)
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ime.
Well, I can probably get FreeBSD to grok em... No idea about X though 8-)
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;ve altered atkbd.c to grok the new keys, I also added 'power' and 'halt'
to kbdcontrol/syscons - so now the power button works 8-)
I think for a lot of the other keys we'll need a userland daemon which
talks to syscons to handle stuff.
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mm OK.. I was thinking about something like apmd (and usbd) which spends most
of its time blocked waiting for events, but a unified daemon would be nice :)
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mbase.reshandle)) +
offset));
rman_get_virtual() gets the kernel virtual address out of the memeory handle,
vtophys turns it into a physical address (hmm.. come to think of it I could
probably replace those two with rman_get_start), and i386_btop does, err, magic
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?
2) How much stuff well get moved over to sit under the new interface, and how
hard will that be to accomplish? :)
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On 19-May-00 Warner Losh wrote:
> Actually, forget what I said. Mike smith's way is much cleaner.
> Assuming that the batteries have enough juice in them to do the
> reboot.
Doesn't matter if they do or not though..
If it powers down while you are starting up, so what? :)
tch is at ->
http://urquell.pilsnet.sunet.se:8000/cron-utc-patch.txt
Any chance of having this committed? IMHO it is very useful to have.
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ile ago and it worked (note its stolen
from the linux_base port)
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gt; It's splitting hairs, but I would opt for A since the memory cache should
> help with the slower memory access.
Well.. its not 'the ALU' anymore.. A modern CPU has many execution units.
The processor can parallelize
> x = d & MASK;
> y = d >>
On 11-Jun-00 Leif Neland wrote:
> How does handle it when one ups drives many machines?
Use the NUT port.. /usr/ports/sysutils/nut/
Last I looked it was a little unpolished, but the basic framework is there to
have a single UPS work for multiple machines.
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Could be :-/
I couldn't find any info about the technical jiggery pokery of them on the web
though :(
I will see if I can try what Anatoly suggests.. :)
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