Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-18 Thread David Feuer
er on the pretty much completely random skew between several independent clocks. Any particular oscillator will vary in speed semi-randomly, and if you compare multiple clocks you can get pretty random numbers. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open So

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-17 Thread David Feuer
ame >problem. > >(I last observed this problem using linux-2.4.0-test12, though. >Now I'm running test13-pre3 and it has not yet occurred.) >- -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-17 Thread David Feuer
> By the way, I now checked the syslog, and I see that the last cron message was logged about an hour before I reset the system. So it looks like a total lockup. BTW, what does it mean when this gets logged? Dec 17 19:01:09 localhost kernel: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. Dec 17 19:01:0

APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-17 Thread David Feuer
I get this problem both in Linux and Windows, so I won't rule out hardware/bios bugs, but I find that often when my monitor (backlight) gets turned off automatically after a long period of non-use, the computer freezes up. I think it only happens when I've left it that way for a long time, though

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-13 Thread David Feuer
to be able to include at least two date-time pairs in a filename... especially for scientific stuff. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: swapoff weird

2000-12-10 Thread David Feuer
At 01:56 AM 12/10/2000 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: >[David Feuer] > > Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that > > this is not the last link to a swapfile. > >Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and >clear immu

Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

2000-12-09 Thread David Feuer
I just see the word "dangerous". -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: swapoff weird

2000-12-09 Thread David Feuer
don't belong to any user process and may remain active after unlink? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally; act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir

2000-11-16 Thread David Feuer
cases that would make the graph disconnected. How could the graph become disconnected? What does connectedness have to do with naming? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally, act globally. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsu

Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir

2000-11-16 Thread David Feuer
It rarely hurts to violate even a written standard when it says something like this... If it says something like this (which can only happen intentionally, afaict) should fail, but you can do something intelligent instead, you probably should. -- This message has been brought to you by the le

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-15 Thread David Feuer
eeds to be paged in any case. The network card COULD be dead, in which case the administrator needs to replace it. Otherwise, a reboot could solve the problem. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. Open Source: Think locally, act globally. David Feuer [EMA

pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Feuer
What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-08 Thread David Feuer
to write one, as I would hope that most linux users are willing to compile their own kernels... -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

national problems

2000-11-07 Thread David Feuer
, etc Be afraid. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: malloc (1/0) ??

2000-11-07 Thread David Feuer
27;s territory, but as long as you don't call malloc again, you should be fine. This way you can get any amount of scribble space. Of course, this only works on normal versions of malloc that don't try to return memory to the OS, etc. -- This message has been brought to you by the

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread David Feuer
ether on one page. I hope I didn't miss anything, or make any big mistakes. My own guess is that the first option is the most reliable, and that the last one is the most flexible. -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTEC

sound driver persistent state

2000-11-06 Thread David Feuer
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Select

2000-11-04 Thread David Feuer
wakes up the process after a certain amount of time if there are _any_ bytes in the pipe/dev? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Can EINTR be handled the way BSD handles it? -- a plea from a user-land programmer...

2000-11-03 Thread David Feuer
least) to create a race-free signalling system? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-13 Thread David Feuer
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Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread David Feuer
y the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/