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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 05:13:09 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #294
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Linux-Development Digest #294, Volume #2 Wed, 12 Oct 94 05:13:09 EDT
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Contents:
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SERIOUS bug with GreenPC functions (Michael Bischoff)
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DMA Time out under 1.1.45- and Voxware 2.90-2 (Brandon Long)
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Re: Linux For Mac :( (Kevin K. Lewis)
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Re: 1.1.53 - fdformat - IOCTL error still there (Rene COUGNENC)
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SOCK_INODE(sk->socket)->i_uid sometimes wrong (Lars Fenneberg)
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Physical Memory size (Cheryl Dematteis)
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Re: Contract Software development : Driver for PDMA16 I/O board (David - Morris)
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Re: Linux on a IBM PS/2 (H. Peter Anvin)
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Re: Improving SLIP latency under Linux (John Richardson)
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WANTED: Xerion bin or ported source (Greg Bruell)
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Re: Filesystem idea (Doug Dejulio)
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1.1.45+ doesn't compile: ld -qmagic? (Brian Mancuso)
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Re: FTP slowdown under 1.1.52 with hdparm on (Mark D. Roth)
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[H] missing "Close" item onSWiM motif menu (david her)
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Re: A badly missed feature in gcc (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: Will pcsndrv be included in 1.2? (Rafal Maszkowski)
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Re: Orchid CDS-3110 CD-ROM (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Re: Orchid CDS-3110 CD-ROM (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Re: Large IDE Drive support (Steve DuChene)
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Re: Improving SLIP latency under Linux (John Richardson)
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From: mbi@math.nat.tu-bs.de (Michael Bischoff)
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Subject: SERIOUS bug with GreenPC functions
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 22:01:26 GMT
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Reply-To: mbi@mo.math.nat.tu-bs.de
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Hello,
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I just encountered a serious problem with the GreenPC functions of
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my new motherboard:
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I loose a partition, if I do the following:
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1) set HDD Power Down to 1 Minute in the BIOS (SiS 471/ AWARD)
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2) Boot Linux, all partitions on /dev/hda
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3) mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb2; mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt; cp .bashrc /mnt
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4) work on hda until hdb is powered down (I always wondered how this
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works with Linux)
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5) shut down the system.
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I get the message '/dev/hda: reset multiple mode to 0' when
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hdb is powered up again and /dev/hdb2 is unmounted.
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6) reboot. The first sectors of /dev/hdb2 will be garbage.
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My configuration: Linux-1.1.49, 2 Conner HDs (IDE), drive hdb is a Conner
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CP 30204. Both drives are initialized to 16 sectors multiple mode.
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Motherboard: Sis 471, Award BIOS.
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Can this be a hardware fault, or is it a software problem?
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I don't know if this a problem with other operating systems too,
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since I am using only Linux (and NEVER lost a partition in the last
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2 years)
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Desperately,
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Michael
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--
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EOI
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============================================================================
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Michael Bischoff e-mail: mbi@mo.math.nat.tu-bs.de
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Abt. Mathematische Optimierung or m.bischoff@tu-bs.de
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Inst. Angewandte Mathematik or on.bischoff@zib-berlin.de
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Pockelsstrasse 14 Tel. +49-531-391-7555, Fax: +49-531-391-4577
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38106 Braunschweig Germany
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From: Brandon Long <blong@uiuc.edu>
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Subject: DMA Time out under 1.1.45- and Voxware 2.90-2
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 01:22:16 GMT
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Reply-To: blong@uiuc.edu
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With kernel version greater than 1.1.45, all with Voxware 2.90-2,
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(486/33, libc4.5.26, 16mb, PAS16)
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I've been getting the following message after approx. 3 seconds of play:
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Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
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/dev/dsp: I/O error
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So, I started playing with my IRQ settings, figuring I just forgot whats
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on what. No go. So I tried only using the pas16, without the soundblaster
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emulator. Again, no go. So i booted an older kernel I had on my system
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(1.1.16) and sound worked just fine. I tried 1.1.52 with the same sound
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setup (dma/irq assigments, and only pas16) and it still errored out.
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1.1.16 had voxware 2.5a (according to /dev/sndstat).
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Obviously a lot has changed since 1.1.16-1.1.52 and 2.5a-2.90. Has the
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PAS support been broken?
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Thanks
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Brandon
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--
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Brandon Long (N9WUC) "I think, therefore, I am confused." -- RAW
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Computer Engineering Run Linux 1.1.xxx It's that Easy.
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University of Illinois blong@uiuc.edu http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~bl6456/
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Don't worry, these aren't even my views.
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From: lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com (Kevin K. Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Linux For Mac :(
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Date: 09 Oct 1994 01:16:46 GMT
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In article <376imr$92k@martha.utk.edu> williams@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Myles Williams) writes:
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What's this? I thought I read in a newspaper that the Power Mac was going to
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be an open system, fully documented by Apple.
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Will they never learn?
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It may be that Apple is opening the Mac, but Apple is a Hamlet of the
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computer world, fickle 'til the end.
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Also, to Apple "open" may mean that they'll license parts of their OS
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to people so that they can build on it (thus ensuring Apple a cut).
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I'm always suspicious when Apple makes any claims of openness or
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freedom.
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--
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Kevin K. Lewis | My opinions may be unreasonable
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lewikk@aud.alcatel.com | but such is the voice of inspiration
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From: rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
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Subject: Re: 1.1.53 - fdformat - IOCTL error still there
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 01:20:02 GMT
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Reply-To: cougnenc@blaise.ibp.fr (Rene COUGNENC)
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Ce brave Vincent Fatica ecrit:
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> Very shortly after patch52 came out, a few persons observed an IOCTL error
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> when using fdformat. I figured it would be better in 1.1.53,
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For me 1.1.53 does not boot at all.
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The kernel hangs after the CSLIP message, probably when detecting
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the ethernet card (ne 2000).
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Back to pl52...
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--
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linux linux linux linux -[ cougnenc@renux.frmug.fr.net ]- linux linux linux
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From: lf@gimli.comlink.de (Lars Fenneberg)
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Subject: SOCK_INODE(sk->socket)->i_uid sometimes wrong
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 22:10:26 +0100
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Hi!
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This happens with Linux 1.1.49 and 1.1.51.
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I am an author of an ip accounting software and i have
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noticed that the value of SOCK_INODE(sk->socket)->i_uid
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is sometimes wrong. This can be seen via netstat (which states
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the wrong user) or via wrong accounting information.
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The problem only seems to be triggered if there is a lot
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of traffic on a specific socket (for example an ftp-data
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connection) _and_ netstat respectively my accounting programm
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is called. I have put some printks in the relevant places
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which print out the user id and the pointer to the inode.
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This pointer gets corrupted as it seems. It's value
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suddenly changes if netstat or my accounting programm is
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called. How can this happen? The only thing, that netstat and
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my programm do, is that they read the value of
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SOCK_INODE(sk->socket)->i_uid (netstat via access to /proc/net/tcp).
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Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Regards,
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Lars.
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--
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Lars Fenneberg, lf@gimli.comlink.de, Tel.: 040/5244224
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ftz Hamburg eV, mailbox: CL-HH - 040 2500890/2509692/2509520
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From: cdematt@corsa.ucr.EDU (Cheryl Dematteis)
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Subject: Physical Memory size
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 01:53:22 GMT
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Is there a system call which returns the number of pages of physical memory a
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system has ?
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In Solaris, the system call sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES) gives me the number I'm
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looking for. Linux (1.0.9) does not recognize _SC_PHYS_PAGES.
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Thanks for the help.
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--
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Cheryl K. DeMatteis cdematt@cs.ucr.edu
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Graduate Student (909)787-3432
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Department of Computer Science
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University of California
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Riverside, CA 92521
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From: dwm@shell.portal.com (David - Morris)
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Subject: Re: Contract Software development : Driver for PDMA16 I/O board
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 05:59:46 GMT
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dwm@shell.portal.com (David - Morris) writes:
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>I can't believe you want someone outside of australia for the work,
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>but if you do, continue reading.
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BLUSH !!! 'tis late at night and the r and f are so close
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together... to all whose cyber space I have wasted, please
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accept my humble appologies and serious chagrin. This reply
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of course should never have been sent as a followup!
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Dave Morris
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From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Subject: Re: Linux on a IBM PS/2
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Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:41:04 GMT
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Followup to: <37a122$lkn@nova.umd.edu>
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By author: cirigara@nova.umd.edu (Carlos Irigaray)
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In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.development
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>
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> Hi, does anyone know how to create a "boot disk" and a "root disk" as in
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> the Slackware distribution?
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> I'm using Slackware 2.0.1 and my runnning kernel is 1.1.52 (I've compiled
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> it). What I need is to make those diskettes from my system because then I
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> should be able to have my IBM PS/2 booting. (the new kernel support the
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> MCA architecture!)
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>
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> Thanks for the help!
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>
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The root disk doesn't change -- just use the standard one.
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Making a Slackware bootdisk is a bit tricky; an easier way to get a
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bootable disk is just to dd it to a floppy disk (dd if=file
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of=/dev/fd0 bs=9216), or getting SYSLINUX
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from eecs.nwu.edu:/pub/linux/syslinux/syslx101.zip.
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/hpa
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--
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INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
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IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN
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FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101
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Have you hugged your Swede today?
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From: jrichard@cs.uml.edu (John Richardson)
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Subject: Re: Improving SLIP latency under Linux
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 01:38:49 GMT
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In article <1994Oct8.053207.22798@unlv.edu>,
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Frank Lofaro <ftlofaro@unlv.edu> wrote:
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>Hmm, I thought Nagle's algorithm was mostly to cluster together
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>outgoing data with ACK and window size change data (2 or 3 packets
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>become 1).
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Nagle's algorithm says that there can only be one outstanding small
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segment that has not been acked. So however long it takes for
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an ack to get back, that is how much data you can get (well,
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up to a point I'm sure). The point of Nagle's alg is to get
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more data across the link in less packets by reducing the number of
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1 byte packets. ACKs usually get picked up on the characters'
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echo.
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>Even if larger packet coalescing occurs, it is not a problem really
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>though. It is okay if a screen refresh goes a bit slowly. (not too
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>slowly though). What _IS_ critical is the very small packets, like
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>tty echo and editor echoing (e.g. in emacs). If that has too high
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>a latency, then editing and input becomes uncomfortable.
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>
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I agree, but of course, now who's going to write this? :)
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--
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John Richardson
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jrichard@cs.uml.edu
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jrichar
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From: gbruell@wellfleet.com (Greg Bruell)
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Subject: WANTED: Xerion bin or ported source
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 02:58:20 GMT
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I know this has been posted before but I couldn't remember
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when. If anyone has a working linux port of xerion binaries
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or source I would greatly appreciate them. This seems like
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a good thing to put on sunsite. I'm sure it would be
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accepted into Incoming and I don't think it would break
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any copying agreements. Thanks.
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Gregory Bruell
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Wellfleet Communications, Inc.
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From: ddj+@pitt.edu (Doug Dejulio)
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Subject: Re: Filesystem idea
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 03:18:01 GMT
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In article <1f.10483.1566.0NC9C259@compart.fi>,
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Riku Saikkonen <riku.saikkonen@compart.fi> wrote:
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>Got this odd idea the other day...
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>Some 'temporary file' capability for the filesystems might be a good
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>thing. For example, with an oft-compiled largish application, it's good
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>to keep the .o files in the directory(/-ies). But they fill up disk
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>space... What I'm suggesting is some sort of 'temp file' attribute that
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>would keep the file on disk until space runs low. Then, when the disk
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>space is almost 0, it would start deleting the temp files to free space.
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This can be done as a daemon, without modifying any filesystem code.
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Write a daemon that reads a configuration file to figure out "low
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space" thresholds for each partition, and "temporary file extensions",
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possibly also partition dependant. Possibly also put in a "degree of
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temporary-ness" for each file extension -- eg. "keep *.o files for a
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week, keep *~ files for three days (so they survive weekends), but
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nuke #*# files in just one day".
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Every night, run a cron job to build a table of existing "temporary
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files", with their last modification date.
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When a given partition goes below the specified amount of free space,
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the daemon "wakes up". It goes through the table of existing files,
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looking for the "most deletable" (ie. oldest that have gone beyond
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their minimum time threshhold) ones. It checks them to see if they've
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changed since last night's cron job, and if not, nukes 'em. Iterate
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until you've got enough free space.
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Who would want to install such a thing on their systems? Show me
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there's enough demand and I may write it.
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--
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Doug DeJulio
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ddj+@pitt.edu
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http://www.pitt.edu/~ddj/
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From: brianm@csa.bu.edu (Brian Mancuso)
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Subject: 1.1.45+ doesn't compile: ld -qmagic?
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 03:12:17 GMT
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`make` terminates in arch/i386/Makefile with error
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ld: unrecognized option `-qmagic'
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etc.
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This linker arguement was not present in previous kernel versions. I have
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binutils-1.0 which should be the latest. -q is not in the manpages of
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SunOS, News-OS, Solaris or AIX.
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What's up with '-qmagic'? Do I have the right ld?
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Thanks for any info, sorry for sqandering bandwidth.
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Brian Mancuso
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brianm@bu.edu
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From: roth@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark D. Roth)
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Subject: Re: FTP slowdown under 1.1.52 with hdparm on
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Date: 12 Oct 1994 03:22:46 GMT
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gnielsen@clam.rutgers.edu (Garth C. Nielsen) writes:
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> Not that I am complaining or anything. I just wanted to state that
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>I had a drop in transfer rate on my FTP transfers while using hdparm.
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>I am using 1.1.52 and running a SLIP line on a 14.4 modem. Normally I
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>get about 1.4 K/sec. But while running it with hdparm -m 32 the
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>ftp transfer stopped for a few seconds after each disk write. After
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>I set the hdparm -m0 then the ftp ran fine again. Any explainations?
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I am not sure that hdparm is as good as it claims to be. I was
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fooling around with it, and my results were not encouraging.
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I tried setting my multcount to 16, which is the max value for my disk
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according the the kernel at bootup. I also tried 2, 4, and 8. My
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benchmark was the suggested "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null count=32768
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bs=1024". When the multcount was set to anything but 0, system and
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user time went down, but wall-clock time went up. This was under
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kernels 1.1.51 and 1.1.52.
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Here are some figures I got, which I found to be fairly consistant:
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multcount user system clock %CPU
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0 0.21 20.69 0:46.74 44.7
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2 0.34 21.53 0:47.69 45.8
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4 0.37 18.75 0:49.94 38.2
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8 0.37 11.90 1:10.54 17.3
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16 0.29 12.37 1:10.55 17.9
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I'd rather have the wall-clock time, personally... :)
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--
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roth@uiuc.edu | Mark D. Roth | http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~mr4342/
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(GEEK CODE 2.1) GCS d-- H+ s++:- g+ p1>4+ !au a-- w++@ v-(*)
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C++>$ UL+>++++ P--- L++>+++ 3 E(-) N++ K++ W--- M-- V-
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po Y+ t++@ 5+ !j R-- G tv b+ D+ B--- e+(*) u+@ h>++ f+ r@ n+@ y?
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From: davidher@netcom.com (david her)
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Subject: [H] missing "Close" item onSWiM motif menu
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 05:28:23 GMT
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I have SWiM 1.2.4 on Slackware 2.0. everything seems work fine, but the
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window default menu (run mwm) isn't supposely has items 'Restore' 'Minimize'
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'Maximize' 'Size' 'Move' 'Lower' 'Close' ? Mine dose NOT has'Restore''Lower'or
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'Close'. It is very troublesome whenever to close a window. Do I need to
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fix somthing to make them shown ? Please help ! Thanks in advance.
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regular menu My window menu (Alt+F4, Alt+F5, Alt+F3 don't function)
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+-----------------+ +-----------------+
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| Restore Alt+F5 | | |
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| Move Alt+F7 | | Move Alt+F7 |
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| Size Alt+F8 | | Size Alt+F8 |
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| Minimize Alt+F9 | | Minimize Alt+F9 |
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| Maximize Alt+F10| | Maximize Alt+F10|
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| Lower Alt+F3 | + ----------------+
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| Close Alt+F4 |
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+-----------------+
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: A badly missed feature in gcc
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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 08:43:27 GMT
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In article <373vcn$1da@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
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Thomas Koenig <Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
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>David Taylor (ddt@idcube.idsoftware.com) wrote in comp.os.linux.development,
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> article <9409231051.AA08511@idcube.idsoftware.com>:
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>>I wish gcc for Linux could handle // comments.
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>
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>I don't ;-)
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>
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>This would break perfectly correct C code, like
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>
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> a = b//* Comment here */ c;
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>--
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And this is the cannonical case of why c++ is NOT a true super-set of
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ANSI c. (Thanks, I'm going to save the exampel for the next time I have
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THAT argument.)
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Question, though, if gcc is fed a c++ file, will it accept that (a .C
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extension, or one of the other gcc/g++ blessed c++ extensions)?
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Seems to me it should. The answer to the poster woudl then be 'Youa re
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trying to write c++ code. Stop telling the compiler its C code, and all
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will be fine...'
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Jeff Kesselman
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From: rzm@dain.oso.chalmers.se (Rafal Maszkowski)
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Subject: Re: Will pcsndrv be included in 1.2?
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 19:32:20 GMT
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Bryan Wright (bryan@elvis.phys.virginia.edu) wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> Just a quick question: Does anyone know if pcsndrv will be included
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> in kernel version 1.2 when it comes out?
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I think that it won't. But it is supposed to be in 1.3.x somewhere.
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R.
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--
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Rafal Maszkowski rzm@oso.chalmers.se http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~rzm
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Opinia publiczna powinna byc zaalarmowana swoim nieistnieniem - St. J. Lec
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 05:50:35 +0100
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From: Eberhard_Moenkeberg@p27.rollo.central.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Subject: Re: Orchid CDS-3110 CD-ROM
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Hello Jeff Kesselman and all others,
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on 08.10.94 Jeff Kesselman wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.DEVELOPMENT:
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>> I've recently purchased a pentium computer from Comtrade that has a brand
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>> new Orchid CDS-3100 CD-ROM on it.
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JK> I've got bad news for you, I'm afraid. I have one of these too, which
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JK> I've instaleld in various op systems and at thsi poitn know ALOT about...
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JK>
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JK> 1) What you REALLY have is a Wearnes CD-ROM and (if you are using the
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JK> orchid interface) a Wernes sony act-alike interface. The drive is
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JK> ELCTRONICLY compatable with the sony interface BUT
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JK>
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JK> 2) The Wearnes is NOT compatable on a software level with the sony
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JK> drives. It uses a different control protocol. Any driver written for
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JK> the sony drives will NOT work with this drive. You need a Wearnes
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JK> specific driver.
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JK>
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JK> 3) As far as I know (and this may be outdated info) nobody has written a
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JK> Wearnes driver for Linux.
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I will not write a Linux driver for it - but if someone will mail me
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the DOS driver, I can easily "disclose" all information a driver
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writer needs. I have practice with that, and doing that is legal here. ;-)
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Greetings ... Eberhard
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 05:55:12 +0100
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From: Eberhard_Moenkeberg@p27.rollo.central.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Subject: Re: Orchid CDS-3110 CD-ROM
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Hello Jeff Kesselman and all others,
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on 09.10.94 Jeff Kesselman wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.DEVELOPMENT:
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JK> As i have been careful to point otu many times, i have never
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JK> nor do I currently work for Yygdrasil.
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Why not? ;-)
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Yggdrasil has done lots of good things for the Linux community, and
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one of the best is the "idea" to hire programmers and to put the result
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under the GPL.
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Greetings ... Eberhard
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From: s0017210@unix1.cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene)
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Subject: Re: Large IDE Drive support
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Date: 8 Oct 1994 21:43:05 -0400
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Dave: The difficulties with EIDE drives has been taken care of
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in the newer ALPHA kernels (since about 1.1.39?). I have been
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running 1.1.51 for about a month now and I have had no problems
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with my EIDE harddrive in my Gateway P4D-100 system.
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BTW, the return address in your posting with a system name of
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bettlebrox doesn't work and caused bounced mail on my system.
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If you want replies to your questions in the future you may
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want to fix it as some people get irritated by bounced mail
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when they are trying to reply to a plea for help.
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--
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| Steven A. DuChene sduchene@cis.ysu.edu or s0017210@cc.ysu.edu
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| Youngstown State University | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
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|-------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Friends don't let friends do DOS
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From: jrichard@cs.uml.edu (John Richardson)
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Subject: Re: Improving SLIP latency under Linux
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 01:56:10 GMT
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In article <374crv$6mp@gate.noris.de>,
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Matthias Urlichs <urlichs@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
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>Why would you want to turn off the receive buffer?
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I was guessing that the receive buffer was acting as a router that
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didn't have TOS since 2k of packets could get queued up in there.
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However, I've heard that some other folks without buffered modems
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have the same problem, so that's probably not it.
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>
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>The reasonable thing to do here is to increase the baud rate you use when
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>talking to the modem. Remember that with error-corecting modems, every data
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>packet (which has no relation to the IP packets it carries) has to arrive
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>completely before being forwarded because the checksum must be verified,
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>and on a serial line there's no "Oops, discard the last fifteen characters"
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>command.
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Increase the baud rate? Huh? How? It is already at spd_hi. With
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round trip times of 2000 to 3000ms I don't think I'm just waiting for
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30 characters... I don't know if you realize this, this thread
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was started by someone complaining about the abnormal interactive
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responce times /during background ftp transfers/. If you use
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SLIP or PPP can you say that you don't get 2-3 sec delays (you
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can modify ping to get this) for interactive traffic.
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If your slip server has a queue of ftp packets to send you, it should
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be thowing your interactive packet at the front of the queue.
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Or if you are sending and you have a full buffer of interactive
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packets, your interactive packet should go to the front of your
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queue.
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>
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>If you need less latency, then
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>1- implement priority queueing
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This is done! In 1.1.52, check out net/inet/dev.c and ip.c.
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>2- use IP header compression
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I don't have this option.
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>3- turn off error correction in the modems
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I tried this to no avail.
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>4- use a smaller MTU
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I've tried down to 100.
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>
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>If you use SLIP instead of PPP, decide on one of -3- and -4-.
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>
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--
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John Richardson
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jrichard@cs.uml.edu
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