Linus Torvalds writes:
> NOTE! I detest the centralized SCM model, but if push comes to shove,
> and we just _can't_ get a reasonable parallell merge thing going in
> the short timeframe (ie month or two), I'll use something like SVN
> on a trusted site with just a few committers, and at least try
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 17:38 +0200, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> Albert, allowing access based on tty sounds nice, but it _is_ expansive.
> More importantly, perhaps, it would "virtualize" /proc: every user would
> see different permissions for certain files in there. That's too comlex
> for my taste.
I
On Nov 28, 2007 6:31 AM, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > * Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Nov 27, 2007 7:49 PM, Guillaume Chazarain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a lot of w
On Nov 28, 2007 5:46 AM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Nov 27, 2007 7:49 PM, Guillaume Chazarain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > We ma
On Nov 29, 2007 4:40 PM, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Nov 28, 2007 6:31 AM, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
existence, and programs relying on
> this interface will loudly break on older kernels, unlike with the
> proposed interface change.
>
> Ccing Albert Cahalan as he made the change to /proc/self in the first
> place:
Changing /proc/self is somewhat risky, and probably
undesirabl
> OK, folks, another try to enhance privacy by hiding
> process details from other users. Why not simply use
> chmod to set the permissions of /proc/ directories?
> This patch implements it.
>
> Children processes inherit their parents' proc
> permissions on fork. You can only set (and remove)
>
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:42 +0100, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > This is a bad idea. Users should not be allowed to
> > make this decision. This is rightly a decision for
> > the admin to make.
>
> Why do you think users should not be allowed to chmo
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 12:27 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:04:07PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > > > > > > > +static inline cycle_t read_timesource(struct timesource_t* ts)
> > > > > > > > +{
> > > > > > > > + switch (ts->type) {
> > > > > > > > + case TIMESOURC
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:08 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:42 +0100, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> > > Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> > > Why do you think users should not be allowed to chmod their processes
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 19:22 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> > When the vsyscall page is created, copy the one needed function
> > into it. The kernel is already self-modifying in many places; this
> > is nothing new.
>
&
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:31 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> (snipped the CC list - hope that's ok)
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:08 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> &g
Russell King, the latest person to notice defects, writes:
> However, the way the kernel is setup today, this seems
> impossible to achieve, which tends to make the whole
> idea of capabilities completely and utterly useless.
>
> How is this stuff supposed to work? Are my ideas of
> what's suppos
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 03:39 +0100, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> So, I gather from the feedback I've got that chmod'able /proc/
> would be a bit over the top. 8-) While providing the easiest and most
> intuitive user interface for changing the permissions on those
> directories, it is overkill. Paul is r
Better interface:
/sbin/sysctl -w proc.maps=0440
/sbin/sysctl -w proc.cmdline=0444
/sbin/sysctl -w proc.status=0444
The /etc/sysctl.conf file can be used to set these
at boot time.
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On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:55 +, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:23:54AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 19:22 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > >
> > > > When the
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 01:22 +0100, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> The permissions of files in /proc/1 (usually belonging to init) are
> kept as they are. The idea is to let system processes be freely
> visible by anyone, just as before. Especially interesting in this
> regard would be instances of login.
[quoting various people...]
> Here is a new entry developed for /proc that prints for each process
> memory area (VMA) the size of rss. The maps from original kernel is
> able to present the virtual size for each vma, but not the physical
> size (rss). This entry can provide an additional in
Assuming you'd like ps to print the LUID, how about
putting it with all the others? There are "Uid:"
lines in the /proc/*/status files.
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On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 22:49 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Albert Cahalan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Assuming you'd like ps to print the LUID, how about
> > putting it with all the others? There are "Uid:"
> > lines in the /proc/*/status files.
>
>
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 07:40:06PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 00:04 +, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> The user interface is still bogus.
>>
>> I presume you are talking about the ioctl. I have tried to engage you
>> and others on what exactly
Lennart Sorensen writes:
> You forgot the very important:
>- Only works on architecture it was compiled for. So anyone not
> using i386 (and maybe later x86-64) is simply out of luck. What do
> nvidia users that want accelerated nvidia drivers for X DRI do
> right now if they
Peter Chubb writes:
> There are three new system calls:
>
> long usr_pci_open(int bus, int slot, int function, __u64 dma_mask);
> Returns a filedescriptor for the PCI device described
> by bus,slot,function. It also enables the device, and sets it
> up as a bus-ma
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 19:15 +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You forgot the PCI domain (a.k.a. hose, phb...) number.
> > Also, you might encode bus,slot,function according to
> > the PCI spec. So that gives:
> >
> > long usr_pci_open(unsigned pcidomain, unsigned devspec, __u64 dmamask);
>
> Still insuf
greg k-h writes:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:30:20PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
>> That's the problem, it's not spelled out explicitly anywhere.
>> That file does not address the issue of whether a driver is
>> a "derived work". This is the part he should talk to a lawyer
>> about, right?
>
> How a
On 12/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've originally thought about util-linux upstream fork,
>> but as usually an fork is bad step. So.. I'd like to start
>> some discussion before this step.
> ...
>> after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng"
>> project.
On 12/20/06, David Wragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:50:08PM +, David Wragg wrote:
>> This patch (against 2.6.19/2.6.19.1) adds the four context
>> switch values (voluntary con
Linus Torvalds writes:
So it would appear that for OS X, the
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 /* AIX 5.3L needs this */
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#define _BSD_SOURCE
sequence actually _disables_ those things.
Yes, of course. The odd one here is glibc.
Normal systems enable everyt
There are big nasty bugs related to threaded processes exiting,
especially when involving: zombie leaders, clone w/o SIGCHLD,
and ptrace. I can make tasks that remain until reboot. I've seen
things stuck in "X" state. I've seen pending SIGKILL and even
blocked SIGKILL. I've seen "D" state pretendi
Linus Torvalds writes:
[probably Mikael Pettersson] writes:
The suggestions I've had so far which I have not yet tried:
- Select a different x86 CPU in the config.
- Unfortunately the C3-2 flags seem to simply tell GCC to
schedule for ppro (like i686) and enabled MMX and SSE
- Probabl
On 2/28/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Starting with kernel 2.6.19, the process directories in
> /proc are sorted by number. They were sorted by process
> start time in 2.6.18 and earlier. This makes the output
> of procps come out in
David Singleton writes:
Add variation of /proc/PID/smaps called /proc/PID/pagemaps.
Shows reference counts for individual pages instead of aggregate totals.
Allows more detailed memory usage information for memory analysis tools.
An example of the output shows the shared text VMA for ld.so and
t
I have a fun little test program for people to try. It creates zombies
that persist until reboot, despite being reparented to init. Sometimes
it creates processes that block SIGKILL, sit around with pending SIGKILL,
or both.
You'll want:
a. either assembly skills or the ability to run 32-bit x86
Somebody PLEASE try this...
Normally, when a process dies it becomes a zombie.
If the parent dies (before or after the child), the child
is adopted by init. Init will reap the child.
The program included below DOES NOT get reaped.
Do like so:
gcc -m32 -O2 -std=gnu99 -o foo foo.c
while true; do
David Wragg writes:
Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:50:08PM +, David Wragg wrote:
This patch (against 2.6.19/2.6.19.1) adds the four context
switch values (voluntary context switches, involuntary
context switches, and the same values accumulated fro
On 12/20/06, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 21:46 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Somebody PLEASE try this...
I was having enough fun with cloninator (which was whitespace munged
btw).
Anything stuck? Besides refusing to die, that beast slays debuggers
Karel Zak writes:
I've originally thought about util-linux upstream fork,
but as usually an fork is bad step. So.. I'd like to start
some discussion before this step.
...
after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng"
project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2
On 1/4/07, Segher Boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adjusting gcc flags to eliminate optimizations is another way to go.
> Adding -fwrapv would be an excellent start. Lack of this flag breaks
> most code which checks for integer wrap-around.
Lack of the flag does not break any valid C cod
On 6/19/07, William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:35:22AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Right now, Linux isn't all that friendly to JIT emulators.
Here are the problems and suggestions to improve the situation.
There is an SE Linux execmem restr
On 6/20/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I presumed an ELF note or extended filesystem attributes were already
> in place for this sort of affair. It may be that the model implemented
> is so restrictive that users are forbidden to create new executa
with Alan on this one.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:16:29PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
It does and it doesn't. There is not a reasonable way for a
user to mark an app as needing full self-modifying ability.
It's not like the executable stack, which can be set via the
ELF note marki
On 6/20/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Putting this into the security policy was an error born of
> lazyness to begin with. Abuse of the security mechanism
> was easier than hacking the toolchain, ELF loader, etc.
>
> Either a binary ne
On 6/20/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Look, let's back up a bit here. At a high level, what exactly do
> you imagine that this behavior was intended for? I suggest you
> list some examples of the attacks that are blocked.
>
&
On 6/21/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 02:35 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Right now, Linux isn't all that friendly to JIT emulators.
> Here are the problems and suggestions to improve the situation.
>
> There is an SE Linux e
On 6/21/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> It's really not worth getting bothered by. Truth is, big
> >> giant
> >> pathnames break lots of stuff already, both kernel and
> >> userspace.
> >
> >> Just look in /proc for some nice juicy kernel breakage:
> >> cwd, exe, fd/*, maps, mou
On 6/22/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 01:56 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 02:35 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > > Right now, Linux isn't
On 6/22/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > and these methods also destroy yourself on any machine with a looser
> > > > cache coherency between I and D-cache
> > > >
> > > > for all but x86 you pretty much have to do the mprotect() between the
> > > > two states to deal
Neat! It's great to see somebody else waking up to the idea that
storage media is NOT to be trusted.
Judging by the design paper, it looks like your structs have some
alignment problems.
The usual wishlist:
* inode-to-pathnames mapping
* a subvolume that is a single file (disk image, database,
On 6/13/07, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:45:28AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> The usual wishlist:
>
> * inode-to-pathnames mapping
This one I'll code, it will help with inode link count verification. I
want to be able to detect
On 6/13/07, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:14:40PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On 6/13/07, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:45:28AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >> * secure delete via
Christoph Hellwig writes:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:36:09PM +0900, Kentaro Takeda wrote:
We limit the maximum length of any string data (such as
domainname and pathnames) to TOMOYO_MAX_PATHNAME_LEN
(which is 4000) bytes to fit within a single page.
Userland programs can obtain the amount of
On 6/15/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Albert Cahalan]
> It's really not worth getting bothered by. Truth is, big
> giant
> pathnames break lots of stuff already, both kernel and
> userspace.
> Just look in /proc for some nice juicy kernel breaka
I had one share mounted, from XP to Linux, and wanted another.
At first I had an incorrect setting on the XP box, almost
certainly related to permissions. The mount failed of course.
Running "mount" showed that the filesystem was not mounted,
but apparently it didn't remain fully unmounted either.
On 7/7/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/7/07, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had one share mounted, from XP to Linux, and wanted another.
At first I had an incorrect setting on the XP box, almost
certainly related to permissions. The mount fail
Robin Holt writes:
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:36:21AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Robin Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I would say this is more a benefit than a problem. With a couple
of these systems we are testing, the number of kernel threads is
far greater than the number of user p
Jan Engelhardt writes:
On Apr 10 2007 17:47, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Apr 8 2007 20:57, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
Anyway, re-parenting to swapper breaks pstree, it doesn't
show kernel threads. And if ->parent == /sbin/init, we can't
remove us from ->children (unless we forbid sub-thread-of-init
ex
On 5/29/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jan Engelhardt writes:
-if(self_pid==1 && ADOPTED(processes[i]) && forest_type!='u')
+if(ADOPTED(processes[i]) && forest
Ingo Molnar writes:
looking over the list of our new generic APIs (see further below) i
think there are three important things that are needed for an API to
become widely used:
1) it should solve a real problem (ha ;-), it should be intuitive to
humans and it should fit into existing thing
Olaf Hering writes:
On Sat, Jul 14, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Olaf Hering wrote:
Declare PAGE_SIZE as getpagesize() for userspace.
PAGE_SIZE is used in resource.h and shm.h
I would think it would be better to not define it at all.
Several architectures already don't have PAGE_SIZE visible
to us
On 7/14/07, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: "Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:48:57 -0400
> A real constant-value PAGE_SIZE is useful and doable.
It's bogus to use it. The kernel can get recompiled
to arbitrary page siz
Please don't forget the immutable bit. ("man lsattr")
Having both, BSD-style, would be even better.
The immutable bit is important for working around
software bugs and "features" that damage files.
I also can't find xattr support.
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David Schwartz writes:
[Aaron Wiebe]
open("/somefile", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CREAT, 0644) = 1621 <0.415147>
How could they make any difference? I can't think of any
conceivable way they could.
Now, I'm a userspace guy so I can be pretty dense, but shouldn't a
call with a nonblocking flag r
Eric W. Biederman writes:
Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Your recent cleanup to shm code, namely
[PATCH] shm: make sysv ipc shared memory use stacked files
took away one of the debugging feature for shm segments.
Originally, shmid were forced to be the inode numbers and
they sh
On 6/6/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:27:01 -0400 "Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman writes:
> > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Your recent cleanup to shm
On 6/7/07, Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BTW, I agree with Eric that its would be nice to use shmid as part
of name instead of forcing to be as inode number. It should be
possible for pmap to workout shmid from "key" or name. Isn't it ?
It is not at all nice.
1. it's incompatibl
On 6/7/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So it looks to me like we need to do three things:
- Fix the inode number
- Fix the name on the hugetlbfs dentry to hold the key
- Add a big fat comment that user space programs depend on this
behavior of both the dentry name and the inod
Right now, Linux isn't all that friendly to JIT emulators.
Here are the problems and suggestions to improve the situation.
There is an SE Linux execmem restriction that enforces W^X.
Assuming you don't wish to just disable SE Linux, there are
two ugly ways around the problem. You can mmap a file
On 6/8/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 6/7/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So it looks to me like we need to do three things:
>> - Fix the inode number
>> -
On 6/8/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Albert Cahalan a écrit :
> Additions to better support JIT emulators:
>
> a. sysctl to set IPC_RMID by default
Not very good, this will break some apps.
As a sysctl, the admin gets to choose between
compatibility and san
On 6/8/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is an SE Linux execmem restriction that enforces W^X.
This depends on whatever SELinux rulesets you are running. Its just a
good rule to have present that most programs shouldn't be self patching,
and then label those that do differently.
Sergei Shtylyov writes:
Kumar Gala wrote:
[Sergei Shtylyov]
Kumar Gala wrote:
I haven't looked at all the new clock/timer code, is there any
utility in having support for more than one clock source?
Of course, you may register as many as you like.
Sure, but is there any utility in regist
On 5/18/07, Sergei Shtylyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>> Sure, but is there any utility in registering more than the
>>> decrementer on PPC?
>> Not yet. I'm not sure I know any other PPC CPU facility fitting
>> for clockevents
On 5/19/07, Segher Boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Albert Cahalan]
> Set MMCR0[TBEE], set MMCR0[PMXE], and choose a TBL bit via
> MMCR0[TBSEL].
That's the performance monitor, which could very well be
in use already (for performance monitoring stuff, who
would have
Why can we still not do this?
It's a stupid restriction. Security isn't a reason;
we have SE Linux policy and auditing to take
care of any issues. Heck, SE Linux policy could
even deny this feature for the truly paranoid.
Writing to /dev/* to update timestamps is surely
a worse security situatio
Andrew Morton writes:
"Cabot, Mason B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against
NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for
video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's
pre-allocation of the
john stultz writes:
Indeed. The monotonic clock's behavior around suspend and resume
is poorly defined. When we increased it, folks didn't like the
fact that uptime would increase while a system was suspended.
The uptime really does need to increase during suspend. Otherwise,
things get really
Andrey Borzenkov writes:
This was posted in one of Russian forums. It was not possible to
archive (under Linux, using tar) vfat directory where files had
long Russian names (really long - over 150 - 170 characters) - tar
returned stat failure. When looking with plain ls, file names
appeared trun
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] LogFS take two
You seem to be missing the immutable bit. This is really useful
for dealing with buggy or badly-designed things running as root.
I've used to
On 5/8/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 8 2007 00:43, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Fix: the vfat driver should use the 8.3 name for such files.
Or the 31-character ISO Level 1(?).
That might be appropriate for a similar problem on CD-ROM
filesystems. (when
On 5/9/07, Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Albert Cahalan wrote:
...
On May 8 2007 00:43, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Fix: the vfat driver should use the 8.3 name for such files.
...
It's not appropriate for vfat, HPFS, JFS, or NTFS. All of those
t's useful, but the other case is more important.
> Does a parent death signal make most sense between processes that are part of
> a larger program.
That is the only way I can really see it being used. The only actual
example of use I know is what Albert Cahalan reported. To my
I'm having problems with a font I just created. It's a rather big one,
intended for a framebuffer console in UTF-8 mode. The strace program
reports that /bin/setfont fails on a KDFONTOP ioctl with EINVAL.
In reading the kernel code, I find this:
vt.c:static int con_font_set(struct vc_data *vc, st
On 5/1/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
> And this will entail a lot of work to change (Is it worth it to rework
> the code and remove the limitation?). The linux-console project
> (http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/) might have , but I don't know its
>
On 5/2/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 1 2007 11:49, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>
>> Well, I think the consensus is that anything beyond that should be done
>> in userspace; the main such console daemon was Kon2 last I checked.
>
> Font size is not
On 5/3/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 3 2007 02:17, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Those sizes are unreadable on the 200 dpi OLPC XO screen,
Hm that should have read, for you:
I don't object implementing support for larger sizes.
(But I wonder how that should w
This bug was introduced with SE Linux, 18 years ago. People have been
adding hacks to work around it as the bug bites them, but really the
bug ought to be fixed. Signals related to a tty are supposed to come
from the kernel. This got broken for pty devices. We now act as if
the signal is sent from
We got into the current situation for performance reasons, avoiding the costly
reload of CR3 that a hardware task switch would cause. It seems we'll be
loading CR3 now anyway, so it might be time to reconsider hardware
task switches.
The recent patches leave kernel entry/exit code mapped. Hardware
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