*Nix and Win32 Kernel
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE to have -p4
This is the 6th security advisory of FreeBSD for the year 2004. The problem is with FreeBSD’s IPv6 implementation, which in turn does not affect our systems at all, because all servers I maintain has disabled IPv6 completely, since there’s no IPv6 devices available at Beijing University of Technology’s public network.
阅读全文…NetBSD to have postfix in their base system?!
Sorry for my ignorance, but it seems that NetBSD has imported postfix to their source tree for at least a year!
阅读全文…FreeBSD: Better i18n through utf-8!
Tim J Robbins (tjr@) has committed a set of utf8-ized versions of currently supported system locales. From the commit log:
阅读全文…Dillon to improve DragonFly's build architecture
Matt Dillon always do things which are amazing and earning our respect!! Today he announced a major change in DragonFly’s build architecture, while this will likely to cause some temporary quakes, we believe that the migration will be finished soon and we will have a much better (say, cleaner than FreeBSD’s approach) DragonFly buildworld path!
阅读全文…Robert Watson to merge Networking Locking patches from p4
Robert today has sent a headsup to current@, claiming that he will merge his changes on p4 to cvs soon.
阅读全文…FreeBSD: amd64 -O2 clean!!
David O’Brien has announced the -O2 clean for AMD64 platform. Meanwhile, it seems that alpha has a -O2 clean build now!
参与评论gcc 3.4 listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list
It’s our pleasure to see GCC 3.4 import to be listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list. Unfortunatelly, gmake is now a required prerequisite when building GCC 3.4, this may slow down the import progress.
阅读全文…Massive ICC commit to FreeBSD -HEAD
Today Tom Rhodes (trhodes@) has committed a massive patch against FreeBSD-HEAD, allowing Intel C/C++ Compiler to build kernel. This change should not change the current gcc based build infrasture.
阅读全文…dillon resumes to work!
He is again committing numerous CAPS IPC work. Well, again, is it really 锁骨?
At the same time, Hiten Pandya has done website work. This also inspired me to improve the bachelor’s research site and Candice has reported that the problem has gone.
参与评论sysctl spining fixed
Don Lewis (truckman@) has committed a fix for the sysctl spinning problem I mentioned here some days before. Currently, beastie.frontfree.net is running a workaround which made it possible to skip the deadlock, however, will not guarantee the correct result.
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