questions relating to ncurses and dialog(1)

2010-12-30 Thread Eitan Adler
.tgz Please note that program is not meant to be run by the end user so limited checking was done for insane arguments -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: questions relating to ncurses and dialog(1)

2010-12-31 Thread Eitan Adler
Thank you. I was stuck for a week on the ncurses issue - but now I don't think I will have that problem anymore. :-} On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 07:03:44PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: >> 2) The "help" screen just doesn&

[patch] have rtprio check that arguments are numeric; change atoi to strtol

2011-01-01 Thread Eitan Adler
7 +118,7 @@ } if (argv[2][0] == '-') - proc = -atoi(argv[2]); + proc = -(int)strtol(argv[2], (char **)NULL, 10); if (rtprio(RTP_SET, proc, &rtp) != 0) err(1, "%s", argv[0]); -- Eit

[patch] rtprio/idprio should use basename(3) instead of acting on its own

2011-01-01 Thread Eitan Adler
rtprio rtp; - /* find basename */ - if ((p = rindex(argv[0], '/')) == NULL) - p = argv[0]; - else - ++p; + p = basename(argv[0]); if (!strcmp(p, "rtprio")) rtp.type = RTP_PRIO_REALTIM

[patch] should crunchgen use basename(3) instead of homebrew code?

2011-01-01 Thread Eitan Adler
struct stub *ep; -slash = strrchr(path, '/'); -basename = slash? slash+1 : path; +bn = basename(slash); for(ep=entry_points; ep->name != NULL; ep++) - if(!strcmp(basename, ep->name)) + if(!strcmp(bn, ep->name)) return 1; retur

[patch] have rtprio check that arguments are numeric; change atoi to strtol

2011-01-01 Thread Eitan Adler
      if (argv[2][0] == '-') { +                       proc = -(int)strtol(argv[2], &invalidChar, 10); +                       if (*invalidChar != '\0') +                               errx(1,"Process should be a number"); +               }

Re: [patch] have rtprio check that arguments are numeric; change atoi to strtol

2011-01-02 Thread Eitan Adler
p;invalidchar, 10); + if (*invalidchar != '\0') + errx(1,"Process should be a pid"); + } if (rtprio(RTP_SET, proc, &rtp) != 0) err(1, "%s", argv[0]); -- Eitan Adler

Re: [patch] should crunchgen use basename(3) instead of homebrew code?

2011-01-02 Thread Eitan Adler
function so I decided to poke the relevant people about it. More generally - I don't like seeing old code do something on its own that we have an existing function for. However your post convinced me that gain of consistency is not worth the headaches it may cause.

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Eitan Adler
y anyone for insufficiency yet - but it will happen soon. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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

2011-03-25 Thread Eitan Adler
I even can rm -rf / by accident. > What's your solution to this? :) rm -rf / rm: "/" may not be removed -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsub

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-25 Thread Eitan Adler
ith a few different combinations as well as at the prompt. Thanks for your work! -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Recommended amount of swap

2011-09-05 Thread Eitan Adler
stinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: excessive use of gettimeofday(2) and other syscalls

2011-09-06 Thread Eitan Adler
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Manish Vachharajani wrote: > Lots of libraries assume that time is fast because it > is fast under Linux. Silly question, but why can't we make it fast too? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org m

fix some warnings with sbin/camcontrol

2011-10-14 Thread Eitan Adler
|| (((ccb->ccb_h.status & CAM_STATUS_MASK) != CAM_REQ_CMP) && (disresponse->function_result != SMP_FR_PHY_VACANT))) { - const char *warnstr = "error sending command"; + const char * const warnstr = "erro

rtadvd - WARNS and a missing break?

2011-10-14 Thread Eitan Adler
state = CM_STATE_EOM; + break; or should this be /* FALLTHROUGH? */ case CM_TYPE_NUL: cm->cm_type = CM_TYPE_ACK; cm->cm_len = sizeo

Re: rtadvd - WARNS and a missing break?

2011-10-16 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> I was playing around with WARNS on some programs and noticed that >> usr.sbin/rtadvd builds with WARNS=3 with both clang and gcc (and >> WARNS=6 with gcc). Perhap

Re: performance of fork() syscalls

2011-11-11 Thread Eitan Adler
at is causing the slow down (if there is any difference at all, see part a) I understand that the numbers look bad, and that this is a lot of work to do to see if there is a difference, but benchmarking is a non-trivial exercise :) If I'm wrong here, please correct me. I am always open t

Re: CPUTYPE and friends, from 'make.conf' benchmark

2011-12-05 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Oliver Pinter wrote: >... benchmarks ... http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: CPUTYPE and friends, from 'make.conf' benchmark

2011-12-06 Thread Eitan Adler
is requires more than one test. I'm not trying to be difficult - but statistics and benchmarking is non-trivial. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe

Re: Building ports with gcc46

2011-12-14 Thread Eitan Adler
to take a look at this (outdated) article: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/custom-gcc/article.html This post should have been on ports@ not hackers@. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

dup3 syscall - atomic set O_CLOEXEC with dup2

2012-01-11 Thread Eitan Adler
uint32_t offset1, uint32_t offset2,\ uint32_t len1, uint32_t len2, \ int advice); } +532AUE_NULLSTD { int dup3(u_int from, u_int to, int flags); } -- Eitan Adler ___

Re: dup3 syscall - atomic set O_CLOEXEC with dup2

2012-01-12 Thread Eitan Adler
es the versioning for the new syscall symbols in libc. > The symbols not listed in the Symbol.maps are made local during the > final linkage. Cut me a bit slack, this is my first attempt at adding a syscall ;) -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: dup3 syscall - atomic set O_CLOEXEC with dup2

2012-01-12 Thread Eitan Adler
== --- lib/libc/sys/Symbol.map (revision 229830) +++ lib/libc/sys/Symbol.map (working copy) @@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ FBSD_1.3 { posix_fadvise; + dup3; }; FBSDprivate_1.0 { -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing li

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

2012-01-17 Thread Eitan Adler
ut compromising the quality checks committers (should) do. If you have ideas to make this process easier or more efficient we are all eager to hear them. I am especially interested to know what *I* could do to help speed things along in areas I don't know well enough to commit to. -- Eitan Adler ___

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

2012-01-18 Thread Eitan Adler
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > On 18 January 2012 01:11, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> It takes time to review and test patches. There are a lot of people >> that think "it only takes 30 seconds to download the patch, apply, and >> commit.&q

Re: compiler configuration regression in 9.0?

2012-01-18 Thread Eitan Adler
in:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > # WORKS everywhere > #export PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin" > > cpp  -I/usr/local/include  conftest.c pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/cpp -- Eitan Adler __

Re: Getting PRs fixed

2012-01-19 Thread Eitan Adler
;t have been closed. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: dup3 syscall - atomic set O_CLOEXEC with dup2

2012-01-20 Thread Eitan Adler
I figure this isn't wanted? On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > Okay - here is version 2 (compile and run tested) > > Index: sys/kern/kern_descrip.c > === > --- sys/kern/kern_descrip.c

Re: dup3 syscall - atomic set O_CLOEXEC with dup2

2012-01-20 Thread Eitan Adler
2012/1/20 Kostik Belousov : > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:25:42PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: >> I figure this isn't wanted? > You silently ignored part of the notes that were provided, I fixed the style violations you pointed out and removed _SYS_SYSPROTO_H_ and friends. Which els

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Eitan Adler
ww.eecs.umich.edu/~taustin/papers/MICRO32-diva.pdf Another example: www.ee.duke.edu/~sorin/papers/ieeemicro08_argus.pdf These don't use existing cores on a multi-core chip, but instead use a "functional correctness" chip but I've seen designs that use

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-04 Thread Eitan Adler
On 4 April 2012 01:41, Julian Elischer wrote: > should be in ports? Not unless someone decides to become the new upstream and make a release. We do not maintain software in ports. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-05 Thread Eitan Adler
quot;continue development". In all cases the goal should be to upstream the patch ASAP. If there is no active upstream and the patch does more than the above that is a sign that someone needs to be willing to become the upstream maintainer first. -- Eitan Adler _

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-05 Thread Eitan Adler
nature? That way we could just point the port at the distfile and we don't have to maintain a seperate patchfile in the ports tree. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

disabling generic attach for hptrr

2012-06-07 Thread Eitan Adler
I was sent this patch by a user that has been having trouble with his hardware until attach_generic was disabled in loader.conf. Is there any reason to have this on by default? Would anyone object to me committing this patch? -- Eitan Adler freebsd-9.0-disable-hptrr-generic-attach.patch

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Eitan Adler
booted or powered cycled dozens of times a >> day, and boot time can be VERY important.  Don't assume that the way you >> use FreeBSD is the only way. >> >> -- Ian > > Try setting: > > sysctl hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1 Can you explain in a bit more detail what th

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Eitan Adler
g at boot. Does setting this sysctl mean that my { printer, phone, keyboard } won't function?*** -- Eitan Adler *** I'm being rhetorical here, but we don't have good sysctl documentation. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Eitan Adler
hould be documented somewhere. Thanks! -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: BIO_DELETE equivalent for file on FFS filesystem

2012-06-17 Thread Eitan Adler
files or just no one wrote the code? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: sockstat.c

2012-06-20 Thread Eitan Adler
ewhere and give the url? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Eitan Adler
ll, I >> know which I prefer - and others have made similar comments. > > That's crazy- this is the logic that led to our sh having tab completion > and history disabled by default for years. How many people honestly knew > it was there? The people who would benefit from this feature are the ones > who wouldn't know it was there. The system should be optimized for new users by default. Whether this means enabling or disabling a feature is feature-specific. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: freebsd.org git repositories and svn ids

2012-09-02 Thread Eitan Adler
them always. This makes it inconvenient > to go from svn revision to git commit hash or vice versa. > > > And this is something that is and will be fixed, it's just not high on > my priority list. If someone wants to help out, that would be great! Why isn't git.freebsd.org a straight "git svn clone" ? AFAIK that isn't broken. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: freebsd.org git repositories and svn ids

2012-09-03 Thread Eitan Adler
On 3 September 2012 10:19, Ryan Stone wrote: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Why isn't git.freebsd.org a straight "git svn clone" ? AFAIK that isn't >> broken. > > Well, let's put it this way: I started a git svn clone of the

Re: freebsd.org git repositories and svn ids

2012-09-03 Thread Eitan Adler
On 3 September 2012 11:12, Ryan Stone wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> I've done the same and it only took me a few hours although the ports >> repo took a few days. > > Hm. Maybe you were working from a local, svnsync'ed repo?

Re: freebsd.org git repositories and svn ids

2012-09-03 Thread Eitan Adler
On 3 September 2012 12:01, wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 3 September 2012 10:19, Ryan Stone wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>> Why isn't git.freebsd.org a straight "git svn clone"

Re: freebsd.org git repositories and svn ids

2012-09-03 Thread Eitan Adler
On 3 September 2012 12:09, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 3 September 2012 12:01, wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> On 3 September 2012 10:19, Ryan Stone wrote: >>>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>>

Re: Building with WITH_DEBUG (-g) in make.conf

2012-09-04 Thread Eitan Adler
ce hits Yes. Code size grows and the flags may enable internal debugging in the program itself. > or security risks with this? no. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Building with WITH_DEBUG (-g) in make.conf

2012-09-04 Thread Eitan Adler
On 4 September 2012 17:50, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2012-09-04 17:53, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> On 4 September 2012 05:26, Jake Smith wrote: > > ... > >>> It got me thinking, is there any reason why it would be a bad idea to >>> build >&

heads up: conversation about removing CVS from HEAD on arch@

2012-09-08 Thread Eitan Adler
Hi all, I started a thread about removing CVS from HEAD on arch. If you are interested in following or have something to say please use that list. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [RFC] Add *.orig/*.rej to svn:ignore in src?

2012-09-17 Thread Eitan Adler
to avoid checking in patch `artifact` files? >> >> Do you have an example where this has happened? > > I don't offhand; it was just a hypothetical issue that I > considered might occur in the future if someone wasn't careful. +1 to including this. I imagine its

Re: SMP Version of tar

2012-10-01 Thread Eitan Adler
questions on the mailing list with him CCed so we all learn. :) -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: machine/cpu.h in userland

2012-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On 7 October 2012 10:11, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > What I do not understand is why do you spam lists instead of > commmitting the obvious changes ? It is not spam to ask for review. He was uncertain, and asked for some clarification. -- Eitan

-lpthread vs -pthread: does -D_REENTRANT matter?

2012-10-08 Thread Eitan Adler
ed in identical binaries, let alone identical results. Is there an actual difference between -pthread and -lpthread or is this just a historical artifact? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: -lpthread vs -pthread: does -D_REENTRANT matter?

2012-10-14 Thread Eitan Adler
th the preprocessor and linker. It does not affect the thread safety of object code produced by the compiler or that of libraries supplied with it. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-23 Thread Eitan Adler
ne's interests were. Google code-in is aimed at *coders* and there is an expectation of people writing *code*. The biggest complaint for GCI last year was "not enough coding tasks" -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org ma

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-23 Thread Eitan Adler
tps://www.google-melange.com/gci/tasks/google/gci2011 -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-24 Thread Eitan Adler
e (or all) of these tasks be > listed also in JuniorTasks[3]? I'll link the page: good point. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-25 Thread Eitan Adler
ports tree isn't the only concern. We also need to think about upstream users of bmake that relied on :U and the like working as it does now. We will either need to patch them, or implement a USE_OLD_MAKE flag. -- Eitan Adler ___ fr

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-27 Thread Eitan Adler
ple probably have custom Makefiles they use for their own projects which may rely on existing behavior. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: -lpthread vs -pthread: does -D_REENTRANT matter?

2012-11-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On 8 October 2012 12:17, Eitan Adler wrote: > The only difference between -lpthread and -pthread that I could see is > that the latter also sets -D_REENTRANT. > However, I can't find any uses of _REENTRANT anywhere outside of a few > utilities that seem to define it manually.

Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

2012-11-12 Thread Eitan Adler
What do people think of this? Maybe /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb is a better pointer? commit fb03b777daf2c69bb9612902e38fdb25b256be72 Author: Eitan Adler Date: Mon Nov 12 22:05:55 2012 -0500 Give users a hint when their locate database is too small. Reviwed by: ??? Approved by

Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

2012-11-13 Thread Eitan Adler
On 13 November 2012 09:33, Warren Block wrote: ... Ack to all. Final patch sent for approval: commit 33ed38e54bf7c7c5f0531afa5501f501e1a67279 Author: Eitan Adler Date: Mon Nov 12 22:05:55 2012 -0500 Give users a hint when their locate database is too small. Reviwed by: wblock

Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

2012-11-13 Thread Eitan Adler
On 13 November 2012 10:55, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 13 November 2012 09:33, Warren Block wrote: > ... > > Ack to all. Final patch sent for approval: > > commit 33ed38e54bf7c7c5f0531afa5501f501e1a67279 > Author: Eitan Adler > Date: Mon Nov 12 22:05:55 2012 -0500 > &

Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

2012-11-13 Thread Eitan Adler
On 13 November 2012 10:58, Eitan Adler wrote: Okay... sorry for the spam. I remember there was a reason I used /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate instead of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb. The latter must not be run as root, and the former takes care of this work. Since the default is to enable

Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

2012-11-13 Thread Eitan Adler
"Do this" is more helpful than "See this which tells you what to do." -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Give users a hint when their locate database is too small.

2012-11-14 Thread Eitan Adler
Run >>> /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb", db); >> >> >> That looks longer than 80 characters, a limit given implicitly in style.9. I think he meant the source line is too long. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-18 Thread Eitan Adler
On 18 November 2012 09:09, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > Integrity could be provided by storing some kind of commit ( each, and > additionally each 1000nd full) checksums (even for svn) somewhere on > readonly format. Google "Merkle Tree" for a method of verifying a log

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-19 Thread Eitan Adler
others up to date, but fail at times. > Also, local branching and merging is amazing. +1 - but one can always use git-svn. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubs

old style kernel configuration

2012-11-21 Thread Eitan Adler
uot;make buildkernel" or should it be treated as an implementation detail? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: old style kernel configuration

2012-11-21 Thread Eitan Adler
On 21 November 2012 23:52, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 11/21/12 5:58 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents. >> While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the >> "old style&qu

Re: old style kernel configuration

2012-11-23 Thread Eitan Adler
entation and - what are the man differences between the old and new ways. and it is starting to turn into a flame/bikeshed. Thanks for the information. I'll restore the documentation with updated information shortly. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hack

Re: Missing quote in comment in 8.3 & 9.0 & 9.1RC2 etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc

2012-12-04 Thread Eitan Adler
made it (check the freebsd-bugs mailing list) but the web interface can't find it. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: Missing quote in comment in 8.3 & 9.0 & 9.1RC2 etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc

2012-12-04 Thread Eitan Adler
On 4 December 2012 21:23, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Reference: >> From: Eitan Adler >> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:58:20 -0500 >> Message-id: >> > > Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 4 December 2012 20:21, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >&g

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance? (was: Re: 9.x -- New Install -- serious partition misalignment)

2012-12-08 Thread Eitan Adler
if you use ahci(4) instead of the old ata(4) you have NCQ. If you still use ata(4), you don't. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance? (was: Re: 9.x -- New Install -- serious partition misalignment)

2012-12-08 Thread Eitan Adler
rrect. > > If you don't believe me - look in sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c, look for > ata_ncq_cmd(). Thanks for the correction - my memory was wrong. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: GELI on USB

2012-12-09 Thread Eitan Adler
et lost in the archives of the mailing list? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

use after free in grep?

2012-12-19 Thread Eitan Adler
table, new_ptr, (int)new_size, file, line, func); 343 } -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: [PATCH] Add WITH_DEBUG_FILES knob to enable separate debug files

2012-12-23 Thread Eitan Adler
ings > in ports). If the old defaults aren't the best defaults - I'd change them. If someone depends on the old defaults they should be explicitly set. POLA should not impede progress. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: About QUOTA support in stock kernel (resent)

2012-12-25 Thread Eitan Adler
ht be, it is reasonable to just enable it now. Unless somebody provide > valid objections and I do not forget, I will do it in a week for HEAD. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-25 Thread Eitan Adler
u got confused at least 10 others got even more confused. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-28 Thread Eitan Adler
27;K' vs 'k' is > used in the output, and which invalid parameters will cause an > assertion, along with some changes to wording mostly relating to the > 1024 vs 1000 divisor. > > I think I'm done playing with it now.

Fwd: regression: if_rue device doesn't attach on HEAD

2013-01-06 Thread Eitan Adler
idProduct = 0x8150 bcdDevice = 0x0100 iManufacturer = 0x0001 iProduct = 0x0002 iSerialNumber = 0x0003 <8628> -- Forwarded message -- From: Hans Petter Selasky Date: 6 January 2013 14:04 Subject: Re: regression: if_rue device doesn't attach on HEAD To: Eitan Adler

removing plip from GENERIC

2013-01-30 Thread Eitan Adler
There has been some discussion about removing plip support from GENERIC kernels. plip still appears in sys/conf/NOTES Does anyone object to the following? commit f4efd3cf43514bcb1378e2c5e8879a411b943be2 Author: Eitan Adler Date: Mon Jan 28 15:13:57 2013 -0500 Remove support for plip from

Re: removing plip from GENERIC

2013-01-30 Thread Eitan Adler
On 30 January 2013 16:39, Eitan Adler wrote: > There has been some discussion about removing plip support from GENERIC > kernels. > plip still appears in sys/conf/NOTES A quick follow up to this: -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@fr

Re: removing plip from GENERIC

2013-01-30 Thread Eitan Adler
On 30 January 2013 16:39, Eitan Adler wrote: > There has been some discussion about removing plip support from GENERIC > kernels. > plip still appears in sys/conf/NOTES A quick follow up to this: the documentation about plip from the handbook has already been removed by others.

c99 project

2013-02-04 Thread Eitan Adler
Is the following page still useful? Would there be any objection to me removing it? http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: c99 project

2013-02-04 Thread Eitan Adler
On 4 February 2013 22:08, Adrian Chadd wrote: > .. is it actually completed? No idea, hence my question ;) -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Reviewing a FAQ change about LORs

2013-02-07 Thread Eitan Adler
Does someone here mind reviewing http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174226 for correctness. Please feel free to post alternate diffs as a reply as well. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Reviewing a FAQ change about LORs

2013-02-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On 8 February 2013 16:31, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 19:32 -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Does someone here mind reviewing >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174226 for correctness. >> >> Please feel free to post alternate diffs as a reply a

Re: sched_ule developers handbook

2013-02-22 Thread Eitan Adler
of FreeBSD" in which scheduling algorithm has to > be changed. Could u please provide the developers manual for sched_ule.c > file explaining the structures, variables and functions? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@free

Re: Help porting Linux app - getting Free Memory and Real Memory

2013-03-29 Thread Eitan Adler
mes insufficient according to the program? The application should trust the operating system to manage this correctly unless it has *very* good reason not to (for instance, database programs often perform their own swapping/paging). My suggestion if you are to patch this program at all is to

considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-03-31 Thread Eitan Adler
ier 1. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Eitan Adler
s what PC-BSD offers. They may already have similar things. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Eitan Adler
On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools > do not offer at the moment? A GUI. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Some improvements to rm(1)

2013-04-25 Thread Eitan Adler
Anyone have thoughts on the following? commit 82c78ba923d8ce4a1bfbb309658c49021c8bb384 Author: Eitan Adler Date: Thu Apr 25 22:14:49 2013 -0400 Take some improvements from DragonFlyBSD: - add const where appropriate - add static where appropriate - fix a whitespace

Re: Some improvements to rm(1)

2013-04-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On 25 April 2013 22:50, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Anyone have thoughts on the following? >> >> commit 82c78ba923d8ce4a1bfbb309658c49021c8bb384 >> Author: Eitan Adler >> Date: Thu Apr 25 22:14:

Re: Some improvements to rm(1)

2013-04-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On 25 April 2013 22:56, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 25 April 2013 22:50, Brooks Davis wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> Anyone have thoughts on the following? >>> >>> commit 82c78ba923d8ce4a1bfbb309658c49021c8bb384 >>

Re: Some improvements to rm(1)

2013-04-26 Thread Eitan Adler
On 26 April 2013 08:22, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:56:10PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 25 April 2013 22:50, Brooks Davis wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> Anyone have thoughts on

makeman issues

2013-04-26 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm trying to regenerate src.conf.5 after my recent WITH*_IDEA removal but the diff shows: Does anyone know why WITHOUT_BIND_UTILS is showing up a bazillion times? diff --git a/share/man/man5/src.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/src.conf.5 index 17afca2..54b63db 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/src.conf.5 +++

sys/dev/hptiop cleanup & bugfix

2013-04-28 Thread Eitan Adler
Thoughts? commit 17adf7957edc9d3512a02bcc3436e2718469002c Author: Eitan Adler Date: Sun Apr 28 20:11:42 2013 -0400 Remove ancient compatibility cruft. diff --git a/sys/dev/hptiop/hptiop.c b/sys/dev/hptiop/hptiop.c index 1191718..8ded436 100644 --- a/sys/dev/hptiop/hptiop.c +++ b/sys/dev

Re: UNIVERSE_TARGET doesn't seem to work

2013-06-03 Thread Eitan Adler
ith an empty /usr/obj too > but that didn't help either. Does anyone know of a way around this? > Building without -j is quite tedious. try the parameter JFLAG ? from man build: JFLAG Pass the value of this variable to each make(1) invo- cation

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