Re: What's wrong with this picture?

1999-09-13 Thread Nick Hibma
The point is that the wording is not acceptable on the mailing list, no matter whether you are offended or not. That you're not is a good thing though :-) Nick > > On 13-Sep-99 Mark S. Reichman wrote: > > I would say an apology is due... This is somewhat lame.. > > Nah, he's right I

Re: newpcm and Vibra16X

1999-09-13 Thread A . Leidinger
On 12 Sep, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > What's the verdict on newpcm and Vibra16X? Has anyone had any luck in > finding out why it doesn't work, or how to make it work? Mine won't > make any sound at all (except for the usual noise) no matter what I do > - play mp3s, cat my kernel into /dev/audio0

Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:56:42AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > Just to avoid duplicated effort: I currently have work in progress > on a "fslog" pseudo-device. It enables you to monitor a filesystem > and receive notifications for all interesting changes to files and > directories. This includ

Re: profiling on kernels

1999-09-13 Thread Bruce Evans
> >More complete patches ahve already been applied to -current: > > > >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/prof_machdep.c,v > >Working file: prof_machdep.c > >head: 1.14 > > I checked, I do have rev 1.14 in place and it borks. > > How far off is the chance of -p going haywire with some kernel

Re: more

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Pritchard
> >You'll also note that there is no opposite to ``n'', but / and ? are > >symetrical operations using the same ``last argument''. n keeps the > >direction of the last search, I suppose that might be handy just in > >case you forgot what way it was you where going... :-). > > 'N' is the vertical

Re: more

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 06:03:19AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > Speaking of which, are there any plans to actually document vi any time > > soon? Lots of useful features are missing from the man page! > > Sure! Where are your patches for this? I'll review them > and commit them as soon as

Re: more

1999-09-13 Thread Mike Pritchard
> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 06:03:19AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > > Speaking of which, are there any plans to actually document vi any time > > > soon? Lots of useful features are missing from the man page! > > > > Sure! Where are your patches for this? I'll review them > > and commit them

Re: more

1999-09-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 06:41:07AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: > True, but it would be nice if the man page was extended to > include some more documentation. Remember, a lot of our users are > lazy and if "man x" doesn't give them what they want, then > they don't go looking elsewhere. Sad

make world speed-up patch (was Re: optional 'make release' speed-uppatch)

1999-09-13 Thread Matthew Thyer
Ooops... stick foot in mouth put on flame proof suit Mike, you can call me stupid if you want because I was in sending that email. Thats what happens when you reply to mail without reading the thread first! Stupid me especially when the subject is clearly about "make release". Now b

Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch

1999-09-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:58:01 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > # The first command will fail on a handful of files that have their schg > # flags set. But it greatly speeds up the next two commands. > -rm -rf ${CHROOTDIR} > -chflags -R noschg ${CHROOTDIR}/. > -rm -rf ${C

Re: more

1999-09-13 Thread Bruce Evans
> I think that the originator's request is valid, especially since > some of the original BSD documentation in /usr/share/doc/* has > rotted since it was originally imported. We have been maintaining > those documents more as a "historical" perspective than as > accurate documentation on the curr

HEADS UP: Style changes in /etc/* scripts

1999-09-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Please be aware that some large deltas have been applied to most of the scripts in src/etc . While the submitter of the changes (Doug Barton), David O'Brien, some others and I have done our best to test these changes, there may be problems. The changes were discussed on the freebsd-ha

patch for if_ed.c ed_probe_HP_pclanp() returns OK when shouldn't

1999-09-13 Thread Mark Hittinger
Hi Inside ed_probe_HP_pclanp() we are doing various checks to see if the device is there and if we hit a problem we return 0 instead of an error. Attached is a patch for this problem. Regards, Mark Hittinger Mindspring/Netcom/Dallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** if_ed.c.1 Mon Sep 13 16:31:29 1999

Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch

1999-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sheldon Hearn wrote in list.freebsd-current: > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:58:01 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > # The first command will fail on a handful of files that have their schg > > # flags set. But it greatly speeds up the next two commands. > > -rm -rf ${CHROOTDIR} > >

Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

1999-09-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Polstra writes: : My personal interest is to allow a CVSup master server to avoid : doing a tree walk whenever a client connects. I want to provide the : functionality of the old "supscan" utility, but in real time. Also useful for tasty /dev/ persistance in a

Re: more

1999-09-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : The rest of us aren't so willing to ``adopt `n'''. Please fix it. These are the sorts of changes that I was talking about when I was saying don't mess with the behavior of more too much... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: more

1999-09-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luke writes: : I agree I didn't even know there was an "n" As a emacs fanatic, I find the following message ironic. In vi since as long as I recall (4.2 BSD?) one can search for the next occurance of a string with / or with n. more emulates this. I see no

Re: HEADS UP: Style changes in /etc/* scripts

1999-09-13 Thread Doug
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Hi folks, > > Please be aware that some large deltas have been applied to most of the > scripts in src/etc . Thanks to Sheldon for helping with this, and committing the results. I'll be watching the lists closely for any reported errors. If yo

ata-driver screws up ?

1999-09-13 Thread Pascal Hofstee
As of 4.0-CURRENT about a few hours ago the ATA-driver screws up with my secondary master IDE drive ... wd1s1e gets mounted perfectly ... all other wd1s1 entries fail: uname -a: = FreeBSD shadowmere.student.utwente.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #7: Mon Sep 13 21:43:49 CEST 1999 [EMA

Re: ata-driver screws up ?

1999-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] l>, Pascal Hofstee writes: >As of 4.0-CURRENT about a few hours ago the ATA-driver screws up with my >secondary master IDE drive ... wd1s1e gets mounted perfectly ... all other >wd1s1 entries fail: Make sure you have rev 1.6 of sys/kern/subr_disk.c -- Poul-Henning K

Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

1999-09-13 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any standard APIs for doing file meta-operations > asynchronously? (open, close, creat, link, unlink, etc.) I only know of one way to do that. Hand the operation off to a separate process, using the FD-passing

Re: ata-driver screws up ?

1999-09-13 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > l>, Pascal Hofstee writes: > >As of 4.0-CURRENT about a few hours ago the ATA-driver screws up with my > >secondary master IDE drive ... wd1s1e gets mounted perfectly ... all other > >wd1s1 entries fail: > > Make sur

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

1999-09-13 Thread Mark S. Reichman
First off its nice you know each other. Second, I will respond as I see fit to any public posting with or without your permission Mr. Mike Smith. And yes, posting messages like that in a public forum is lame because postings like that get arguments like this started. Nick Hibma wrote: > > The

Re: optional 'make release' speed-up patch

1999-09-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:43:11 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Makefile.inc1 . > > /usr/src/release/Makefile (This thread is about "make release", > or did I misunderstand the subject line?) Haha! Thanks! No wonder I haven't been understanding this thread. :-) *blush* Ciao, Sheldon. To Un

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

1999-09-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:32:41PM -0400, Mark S. Reichman wrote: > Second, I will respond as I see fit to any public posting > with or without your permission Mr. Mike Smith. HUH?? Where did Mike direct something at you in this thread? > And yes, posting messages like that in a public forum is