Re: PATCH: drivers/char/vt.c allows virtually locking up nonnetworkedmachine

2001-07-02 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Rudolf Polzer wrote: > There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a > > bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done > > which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never > on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed the kernel source code

Re: A Possible 2.5 Idea, maybe?

2001-06-29 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Brent D. Norris wrote: > Recently one more than one subject there have been comments along the > lines of, "Do x, y and z because it would be great on desktops" and then > someone else will say "NO! becausing doing x, y, and z will make servers > run slow." Then as a final n

Re: 2.4.5-ac20, make menuconfig problem

2001-06-28 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, f5ibh wrote: > make[4]: Entre dans le répertoire > `/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.5-ac20/drivers/pnp' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.5-ac20/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer > -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mp

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-28 Thread Dan Podeanu
Ok, my two cents. Print all copyright, config, etc. as KERN_DEBUG. Then use a 'verbose' or similar parameter to lilo/kernel to enable console printing of KERN_DEBUG, to be used when the system fails to boot, etc. Dan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-20 Thread Dan Podeanu
export IFS=$'\n' > lines=`ls -l | awk '{print "\""$0"\""}'` > for i in $lines > do > echo line:$i > done - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-17 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:13:43PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > Is there any logical reason why if, given fd is a connected, AF_INET, > > SOCK_STREAM socket, and one does a write(fd, buffer, len); close(fd); > > to the peer, over a rather slow network (read modem, satelite link, etc), > > t

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-17 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:17:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 2. There is a flaw in the TCP protocol itself that is extremely unlikely > > to bite people but can in theory cause wrong data in some unusual > > circumstances that Ian Heavans found and has yet to be fixed by > > the

Re: 2.4 VM & swap question

2001-06-17 Thread Dan Podeanu
> Yes, I know there's no hard and fast rule for the exact ammount of ram/swap one > needs that will always work. However, in 2.2 for a 'workstation' one could > usually quite happily get away with having 128:128 and never have much of a > problem. with 2.4.0 and up this isn't the case. This has

Re: 2.4 VM & swap question

2001-06-17 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:48:36AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > 'lo all. I've got a question about swap and RAM requirements in 2.4. Now, > when 2.4.0 was kicked out, the fact that you need swap=2xRAM was mentioned. > But what I'm wondering is what exactly are the limits on this. Right now > I've g

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac6

2001-05-08 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: ... > 2.4.4-ac6 ... To be sincere I was expecting the Athlone pre-pre-pre-patch/fix to be included. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.ke

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-06 Thread Dan Podeanu
> No matter if I use the mandrake 8 gcc 2.96 or a self compiled gcc 2.95.3. Mandrake 8's kernel comes with i586 CPU support, it is alredy known it works. Remember that the instability occurs only when Athlon optimizations are used. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-21 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So how risky is this? Risky enough. I had to chkdsk once for half an hour after copying on an NTFS 5. Of course, I'm not familiar with the internals of it. > > Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does anyone > know

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Dan Podeanu
On 13 Apr 2001, Doug McNaught wrote: > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Here might be one of the resons for the trouble with VIA chipsets: > > > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html > > > > > > Some DMA error corrupting data, sounds like a really nasty bug. The > >

linux-2.4.0-test11-pre6 fails to compile

2000-11-17 Thread Dan Podeanu
rious executions of /sbin/hotplug * during boot-up */ net_notifier_init(); +#endif /* Mount the root filesystem.. */ mount_root(); After this, everything seems and runs okay. Be seeing you around. -- Dan Podeanu, Extreme Solutions Inc., Bucharest, Romania. - To unsubscrib

Re: uid

2000-09-19 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Christopher Allen Wing wrote: .. snipped .. > tar should work okay, I think; by default it uses textual user names > instead of numeric UIDs. Not true. All the kernels I download from a certain local mirror are owned by the local user 'tarabas' since the uid happens to be