FreeBSD

Today, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 has submitted a patch against sys/kern/uipc_socket2.c, which is:

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Index: src/sys/kern/uipc_socket2.c
diff -u src/sys/kern/uipc_socket2.c:1.138 src/sys/kern/uipc_socket2.c:1.139
--- src/sys/kern/uipc_socket2.c:1.138	Tue Oct 19 15:13:30 2004
+++ src/sys/kern/uipc_socket2.c	Wed Oct 27 05:37:58 2004
@@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@
 
 	if (CMSG_SPACE((u_int)size) > MCLBYTES)
 		return ((struct mbuf *) NULL);
-	if (CMSG_SPACE((u_int)size > MLEN))
+	if (CMSG_SPACE((u_int)size) > MLEN)
 		m = m_getcl(M_DONTWAIT, MT_CONTROL, 0);
 	else
 		m = m_get(M_DONTWAIT, MT_CONTROL);

I have fighted against the issue that LJ1000 can’t work correctly with FreeBSD however I have failed.

I got “ulpt0: Input/Output Error” when doing cat foo > /dev/ulpt0.

Of course, cups and friends won’t run with this state.

This problem exists in FreeBSD 5.3-RC, 4.10-STABLE. However, interestingly Windows works correctly.

So, why??

Today DragonFly has buryed GNU awk. G’bye, amen! :-D

Today Scott Long has named FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, this is a significant step toward final 5.3-RELEASE.

Please note that before the team has a PGP signed 5.3-RELEASE announcement, don’t download the ISOs even they have appeared on any site. We may still do changes after the naming.

In order to touch more bugs in FreeBSD so I can fix it, I have switched to FreeBSD and installed GAIM, etc. Amazingly, it seems that 5-STABLE is much more stable then I expect :D

I have installed GAIM and OpenQ (Yes, thanks for all folks who ported it, while I rarely and rarely using QQ these days), and it’s quite good!

Scott Long have committed this which will:

Jean-Sébastien Pédron [jspedron club-internet.fr] has announced that he has ported ReiserFS 3.6 (from kernel 2.6.7) to FreeBSD (with only Read-Only support this time).

Scott Long suggests to import these to base because 6-CURRENT will have a focus on the file system. I suggested that we have a directory under somewhere in the src/ tree to keep these Linux bits so we can backport their fixes more easily and it should be better for us to rip these things out when we have re-written something from scratch.

ZHAO Xin (a colleague of mine) has pointed out that GNOME Simplified Chinese does not did a good work when displaying time. He then filed ports/72722 and ports/72723.

Adam Weinberger (adamw@, one of the major FreeBSD GNOME maintainers) has then pointed out that it might be better to contact the Simplified Chinese Translation team. In a private mail, I have explained that the root cause of the issue, however, is that our libc implementation does not implemented the GNU Extensions, say, the -_^0 extensions of strftime(3). Adam have then kindly approved that the patches should be committed, and we should have a long-run solution then finally remove them.

Before reporting this to the list, I would first gather enough information.

Alu’s server boxes is suffering in continued reboot when server is loaded. Because he is supporting FreeBSD by utilizing 5.3-RC1 in his production environment (and it’s moderately loaded as it is connected to the ChinaNet Backbone), and donated many devices for dedicated services of the FreeBSD China Community, I think we must help him to solve these out.

I have plugged a new kernel configuration on his box in order to obtain a (potential) crashdump and figure out what is happening. Maybe we will get it tomorrow.

Scott Long has branched RELENG_5_3 (also RELENG_5_3_BP tag) and 5.3-RC1 is coming REALLY SOON.