Re: revoke(2) redux...

2002-12-24 Thread Paul A. Scott
of serialization. Anyway, if init is the only process opening a tty, serialization would be inherent. But, like I said earlier, I'm no master of init code. I've just never heard of any problems springing from this, so I offer a possible explanation of why it seems (to me) to work. -- Paul

Re: revoke(2) redux...

2002-12-24 Thread Paul A. Scott
> From: "Paul A. Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think what's needed is some form of serialization > around revoke() and open(). I'm not a master of the init code, but it may be > that the code is inherently non-reentrant, so the original code would then &g

Re: revoke(2) redux...

2002-12-24 Thread Paul A. Scott
s for the named path, so any subsequent operations on the open file descriptor would fail, which defeats the purpose of open(). I think what's needed is some form of serialization around revoke() and open(). I'm not a master of the init code, but it may be that the code is inherently

Re: 80386 out of GENERIC

2002-12-18 Thread Paul A. Scott
-build anything beyond what has already been decided, but I would hope that it will be possible to simply 'make' a 386 kernel--and all the rest--indefinitely. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-29 Thread Paul A. Scott
g mistake. Apple's UFS limits file sizes to 2GB, and it doesn't support meta-data. > [2] CVS keeps a shedload of metadata here Ahhh. Since the topic has moved from FreeBSD to Apple Mac OSX, it's now off-topic and I should now kill this thread. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EM

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
user error. Let's just forget the whole thing. Thanks for all your help. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
e a workaround, you're probably more > interested in the fact it works than in why. 8-) 8-). Not true, I'm very interested in knowing what the problem is. It's true that I'm happy to have a workaround (for which I thank you), but I'd sure like to know why this happened in the first place. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
> You are not being quite forthright, I think. Actually, I've been totally forthright. I start with an empty working directory, and type: setenv CVSROOT ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs" cvs login cvs co src/contrib When it gets to directory src/contrib/cvs, I get: cvs checkout: cannot o

Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Paul A. Scott
checkout on src/contrib while bypassing src/contrib/cvs? Or, can this be fixed to work? Thanks, Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

XFree86 Fails with signal 11 in FreeBSD 4.6 and 4.7

2002-10-29 Thread Paul A. Scott
help me debug and resolve this problem? I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. Thanks, Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@;skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message