Re: sh(1) read: add LINE_MAX safeguard and "-n" option

2024-09-27 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote: I will finally learn english some day ;-) Wait until we native English speakers can learn at least some of it! :-) +-+--+--+ | Paul Goyette (.sig) | PGP Key fingerprint: | E

Re: new certificate stuff

2023-09-03 Thread Paul Goyette
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new certificate stuff

2023-08-26 Thread Paul Goyette
r done anything (at least, not deliberately) with certificates; reading and writing Email just works, as does most browsing. Will I need to do anything new (or differently) as a result of these recent changes? ++--+------+ | Paul Goyette

Re: Proposed chown(8)/chgrp(1) enhancement

2023-04-28 Thread Paul Goyette
On Sat, 29 Apr 2023, ?? wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:25:03PM +, RVP wrote: On Fri, 28 Apr 2023, Paul Goyette wrote: I propose the attached enhancement to chown/chgrp to avoid setting a new user/group value if the desired values are already set. The change is pretty simple. I

Proposed chown(8)/chgrp(1) enhancement

2023-04-28 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: style(5) proposal: forbid extern in .c

2023-03-15 Thread Paul Goyette
t the extern declaration in a .h file shared by the .c file defining it and the .c files using it. Pretty simple. Any objections? Long overdue IMHO. Go for it. ++--+--+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addr

Re: /rescue/tar needing liblzma.so.2

2022-07-04 Thread Paul Goyette
t should be workable. ++--+------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses:| | (Retired) | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | p...@whooppee.com| | Software Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoye...@netbsd.org | | & Network Engineer | | pgoyett...@gmail.com | ++--+--+

Re: ZFS - mounting filesystems (Was CVS commit: src/etc)

2022-03-14 Thread Paul Goyette
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Taylor R Campbell wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:01:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Goyette On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Simon Burge wrote: Do we have any valid need to have non-critical local filesystems? Well, I have a dedicated filesystem for builds, separate from my OS. The

Re: ZFS - mounting filesystems (Was CVS commit: src/etc)

2022-03-14 Thread Paul Goyette
running (and receiving mail). So, yeah, I think non-critical local filesystems are meaningful. FWIW, I cannot spell zfs! :) ++--+--+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses:| | (Retired) | FA29

Re: draft mcount(3) man page

2021-05-21 Thread Paul Goyette
or "__mcount_backend" or something like that. Having both _mcount and __mcount is terrible, especially when their roles are exchanged on ~half the ports we have. Yeah, this really is begging for a clean-up. ++------+---+ | Paul

Re: Importing aiomixer to src

2021-05-06 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: Waiting for Randot (or: nia and maya were right and I was wrong)

2021-01-15 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: inetd Enhancements

2020-11-22 Thread Paul Goyette
as to invalidate existing configurations could possibly be considered unintrusive. Changing the syntax is indeed extremely intrusive. ++--+---+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) |

Re: Proposal to remove catman(8)

2020-11-09 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

2020-07-13 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

2020-07-11 Thread Paul Goyette
other statement" is frequently "add a debug_printf()" and many is the time i've broken an if statement by adding debug code. ++------+---+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | |

Re: Empty lines in output of cal(1)

2020-06-29 Thread Paul Goyette
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Kimmo Suominen wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:29:10AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: Also note that when using ``cal -r'' it still displays 5 lines of output, even though only 3 (or 4) lines contain any day-numbers. This results in somewhat excessive vertical whi

Re: Weekday abbreviations in output of cal(1)

2020-06-29 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: getrandom and getentropy

2020-05-11 Thread Paul Goyette
t can certainly be "disabled", but why not override? Just like any other super-user thing, there's no reason not to enable shoot-my-random-foot mode. ++--+-------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail address

Re: dhcpcd privilege separation user

2020-01-23 Thread Paul Goyette
DHCP serving on OpenBSD at least. Is this to generic and we should have a _dhcpcd user or is _dhcp satisfactory? Separate dedicated user. +1 ++--+---+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Re

Re: pthread_setname_np API is bad

2019-08-09 Thread Paul Goyette
upport one or the other _np() variation. There is no pressure for a change to do it now, soon or for NetBSD 9.0 and waiting some weeks/months is fine. If it will land NetBSD 10.0, there will be no harm. !DSPAM:5d4da392153981598017751! ++------+-

Re: find and limits

2019-04-06 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: Detecting keypress on console

2019-03-29 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Paul Goyette wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Michael van Elst wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 08:39:24AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: Hmmm. On my amd64 8.99.35 system, I get # wsmuxctl -f /dev/wsmux1 -l wskbd0 Segmentation fault (core dumped) Someone added a WSMUX_BELL

Re: Detecting keypress on console

2019-03-28 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Michael van Elst wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 08:39:24AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: Hmmm. On my amd64 8.99.35 system, I get # wsmuxctl -f /dev/wsmux1 -l wskbd0 Segmentation fault (core dumped) Someone added a WSMUX_BELL device but forgot to support it in wsmuxctl

Re: Detecting keypress on console

2019-03-28 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Paul Goyette wrote: Hmmm. On my amd64 8.99.35 system, I get # wsmuxctl -f /dev/wsmux1 -l wskbd0 Segmentation fault (core dumped) According to my dmesg, I should also have wsbell0 at spkr0 mux 1 listed for mux1... # gdb /usr/sbin/wsmuxctl ... Reading symbols from

Re: Detecting keypress on console

2019-03-28 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: colorls in base

2019-02-16 Thread Paul Goyette
h red-green protanopic (?) color-blindness, we have a deficiency in "red cones" which reduces the ability to distinguish red from black. Red text would disappear on a black background. +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP

Re: colorls in base

2019-02-16 Thread Paul Goyette
t or right! +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee dot com | | Kernel Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette at netbsd dot org | +--+--++

Re: colorls in base

2019-02-15 Thread Paul Goyette
he biggest attention-getter for me, and often requires changing text from black to white to increase contrast (especially important for red or purple backgrounds). +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail

Re: colorls in base

2019-02-15 Thread Paul Goyette
It's been solved already - it's in pkgsrc. I am not objecting to implementing colorls (in whatever form), just requesting that the default is, and will remain, OFF. +--+--+--------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerpri

Re: colorls in base

2019-02-15 Thread Paul Goyette
or:" usually works for me. :) +--+--+--------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee dot com | | Kernel Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette at netbsd dot org | +--+--++

Re: colorls in base

2019-02-15 Thread Paul Goyette
ustry standard and increase readability "increase readability"? Not for me, sorry. As another color-blind person, I agree with Chris - colorized ls presents a reduction in readability, especially for red-on-black. +--+--+-

Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

2018-12-14 Thread Paul Goyette
twork gear out there that doesn't have a built-in pseudo-browser-for-device-management. On second thought, I think I'd prefer telnet over http anyway, even if the device _did_ have a pseudo-browser. :) +--+--+----+ | Pa

Re: Problem with include/bitstring.h

2018-08-06 Thread Paul Goyette
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: On 07.08.2018 00:30, Paul Goyette wrote: While looking at some other stuff, I noticed that the operations described in bitstring(3) and implement as macros in include/bitstring.h can have a multiple-evaluation problem if the macro arguments have side

Problem with include/bitstring.h

2018-08-06 Thread Paul Goyette
this, both in the man page and in the code? +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee dot com | | Kernel Developer |

Suggestion: add a new option for chown(1)/chmod(1)

2018-06-03 Thread Paul Goyette
uses. Comments? +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee dot com | | Kernel Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgo

Re: diff(1) command options

2018-03-01 Thread Paul Goyette
On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Simon Burge wrote: Paul Goyette wrote: In my case, I have a shell alias for alias diff "diff -u" 'cuz most of the time I want a -u output. But once in a blue moon (or perhaps once in a blue+super moon) I want a -y (side-by-side) output; it's

diff(1) command options

2018-02-19 Thread Paul Goyette
. But once in a blue moon (or perhaps once in a blue+super moon) I want a -y (side-by-side) output; it's a real pain to have to bypass the alias by specifying a complete path to /usr/bin/diff :) +--+--+--------+ | Paul Goyette

Re: kdump -E for time elapsed since the beginning of trace

2017-09-06 Thread Paul Goyette
veral formats. The idea is also from FreeBSD. Trivial patch to the man page is not included. Any objections or comments? Sounds like a useful option. Go for it. +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addr

Re: Suggestion: add a "no-stemming" option to apropos(1)?

2017-06-21 Thread Paul Goyette
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017, Paul Goyette wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote: I have just committed this: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2017/06/18/msg085477.html Could you give it a go and let me know how is it now :) (you will have to rebuild the database with

Re: Suggestion: add a "no-stemming" option to apropos(1)?

2017-06-19 Thread Paul Goyette
y tomorrow. +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee dot com | | Kernel Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette

RE: Suggestion: add a "no-stemming" option to apropos(1)?

2017-06-08 Thread Paul Goyette
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Terry Moore wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 017, Paul Goyette wrote: PG> Don't get me wrong, I love apropos(1). But... PG> I'm continually bitten by the "stemming" that occurs. [...] So am I. I completely switched over from "man -k" to an a

Re: Suggestion: add a "no-stemming" option to apropos(1)?

2017-06-08 Thread Paul Goyette
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Suggestion: add a "no-stemming" option to apropos(1)?

2017-06-07 Thread Paul Goyette
their associated context! The vast majority of those entries are really for "lf" (in either upper- or lower-case), and have no relation to lfs the file system! Would it be unreasonable to add a no-stem option to apropos(1)? +--+------+-

Re: KASSERT and clang static analyzer

2017-04-18 Thread Paul Goyette
t to stop doing that? example output: http://i.imgur.com/AqTm9mq.png I'm building kernel with 'scan-build make -j20' Thanks. Does disabling the diagnostics in the kernel help? +--+------++ | Paul

Re: "cno" keyword for config(8)

2016-08-06 Thread Paul Goyette
foo" was not previously selected. I think we should be consistent. So, rather than using a new keyword 'cno', just change the current error into a warning. +--+--++ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint:

Re: find(1) and group/user handling

2016-06-12 Thread Paul Goyette
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, David Holland wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 05:19:54PM +, David Holland wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 08:10:27PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > > In my opinion, the -user and -group primaries should work strictly with > > _names_, and _never_ fall

find(1) and group/user handling

2016-06-12 Thread Paul Goyette
s should work strictly with _names_, and _never_ fallback to {u,g}id values; we could easily add new primaries -uid and -gid to search for the numeric values. However, this would make find(1) incompatible with existing versions. Comments? +--+------+--

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-11 Thread Paul Goyette
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Paul Goyette wrote: On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Robert Elz wrote: ... If you were also to add { "-newerat", N_ASINCE, c_asince, 1 }, /* gnu find compat */ { "-newerct", N_CSINCE, c_csince, 1 }, { "-newermt", N_S

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-11 Thread Paul Goyette
which only use facilities actually implemented here, would work. Would that really be such an evil thing? For me, yes. I will not implement the ugly gnu stuff, neither in its entirety nor partially. +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-10 Thread Paul Goyette
sent. (Just like my changes re resurrecting the ksem module, discussed last year...) If anyone wants them, the diffs are attached. +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-10 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:03:35 +0800 (PHT) From:Paul Goyette Message-ID: | Does anyone have suggestions and web-sites for a couple of linux | distros? I'm not going to check them all... :) I'd assume they all us

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-10 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:06:42 +0800 (PHT) From:Paul Goyette Message-ID: | > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 02:18:16PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: | >> I'd like to suggest adding new primitives | >> | >&

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-10 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Roy Marples wrote: On 10/06/2016 10:03, Paul Goyette wrote: Does anyone have suggestions and web-sites for a couple of linux distros? I'm not going to check them all... :) http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html Quite a few time related options.

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-10 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Simon Burge wrote: Paul Goyette wrote: I often find myself (no pun intended!) wanting to determine which files were accessed before/since a particular timestamp. There currently exist the -{a,c}{newer,min,time} primitives, but none of these allow me to say "since

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-10 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Thomas Klausner wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 02:18:16PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: I often find myself (no pun intended!) wanting to determine which files were accessed before/since a particular timestamp. There currently exist the -{a,c}{newer,min,time} primitives, but

Re: Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-10 Thread Paul Goyette
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Martin Husemann wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 02:18:16PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: I'd like to suggest adding new primitives -asince "timestamp" -csince "timestamp" where the timestamp argument would be converted to an actu

Possible enhancement to find(1)

2016-06-09 Thread Paul Goyette
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Re: Minor updates to sort ?

2016-05-29 Thread Paul Goyette
l at times, and at other times, not so much ... +--+--+--------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee.com | | Kernel Developer | 0786 F75

Re: PaX MPROTECT gdb and software breakpoints

2016-05-22 Thread Paul Goyette
ave a sysctl knob to enable it (with default of Disabled)? That way, you could get the needed functionality, but only with an explicit action to acknowledge that you are breaking all the contracts... +--+--+----+ | Paul Goyette

Re: refine of the GSOC project

2016-05-08 Thread Paul Goyette
; to regenerate the tools for the new kernel version? Or USETOOLS=NO if it is something quick and dirty... Or just add '-T /path/to/netbsd-6-tools' ?? +--+--+--------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail add

Re: Indexing and searching non-numeric sections with apropos(1)

2016-04-13 Thread Paul Goyette
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Paul Goyette wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Paul Goyette wrote: With bin/51062, makemandb(8) can index non-numeric sections and also apropos(1) can now accept non-numeric sections for querying. That means you do

Re: Indexing and searching non-numeric sections with apropos(1)

2016-04-13 Thread Paul Goyette
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Paul Goyette wrote: With bin/51062, makemandb(8) can index non-numeric sections and also apropos(1) can now accept non-numeric sections for querying. That means you do queries like apropos -s 9lua systm apropos -s

Re: Indexing and searching non-numeric sections with apropos(1)

2016-04-13 Thread Paul Goyette
Lua kernel bindings, ... Note that the output says "intro (9)" - shouldn't it say "intro (9lua)"? +--+--+--------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0

Re: Next steps for /bin/sh

2016-02-26 Thread Paul Goyette
're in the vanguard of correctness, and perhaps our efforts might be used by others to justify adopting the updated standard. :) +--+--++ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)

Re: rc.d/{powerd,envsys}

2016-02-18 Thread Paul Goyette
is run. So I suggest that rc.d/envsys should get an additional # BEFORE: powerd line. !DSPAM:56c5a2fa16832088018165! +--+--+--------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29 0

Re: setting an envsys temperature limit (was: removing an envsys temperature limit)

2016-02-17 Thread Paul Goyette
#dbcool_set_temp_limits). It is unlikely that user-specified values will survive a reboot, unless the chip has NVRAM. :) Otherwise, the chip will reset, and then the BIOS gets its own chance to set start-up values. +--+--++ | Paul Goyette | PGP

Re: removing an envsys temperature limit

2016-02-16 Thread Paul Goyette
er) logger -p warning "${0}: ($1) dropped below critical limit [${3}]" >&1 exit 0 ;; +------+--++ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired)| FA29