one wife is noot enough

pkg-config

1) why ${LOCALBASE}/lib/pkgconfig and not, hier(7) conformant,
   ${LOCALBASE}/libdata/pkgconfig (even MidnightBSD mports does that,
   and we have /usr/libdata/pkgconfig in base)?
2) any idea what to do with the "basic X11" stuff on MidnightBSD?
   for now, I ln-s'd the fontconfig and freetype2 .pc files over
   from mports/x.org... maybe we really want to port XF86 to mnbsd
   (libs only?)

//mirabilos
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Re: RFH: website brainstorming

Hi all,

there's another: undeadly readers, while not as stupid as the
general slashdot crowd, seems to miss all points of about.htm
except wtf and the differing uname. The list of "features" is
(to me, it looks like) mostly a MirBSD #7 -> #8 change summa-
ry... which is not appropriate for an operating system as ours.

Therefore I suggest we collect a few list items which we can
really place there - about.htm has probably not really been
touched for ages... as Waldemar (wbx <at> ) said, we need to de-
fine our identity [more strongly]. This is not just a custo-
mised OpenBSD, and there are more people than just me deve-
loping. Let's show them that!

In fact, I'd like to disemphase the fact that we started as
OpenBSD patch kit. Let's concentrate on what we are now: a
BSD operating system with a couple of "target markets" (de-
veloper workstations, small and medium servers, routers, em-
bedded i386, and SPARCstations), strengths and weaknesses,
and decidedly so for some things (e.g. the missing Kerberos
stemming from size reduction, and the increased space requi-
rements (especially for XFree86®) that come from Unicode sup-
port). How about actual users answering this call with what
_they_ like most about MirBSD, what makes them use it?

bye,
//mirabilos
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when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them.
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existence.		-- Coywolf Qi Hunt

Re: CVS: herc.mirbsd.org: src

Dixi quod...

>use user-space programmes as a sort of fifth entropy pool by pushing
>entropy to kernel atexit(3)

this is especially interesting in the face of omalloc, which, when
replacing mmap malloc, will use arc4random(3) &c. a lot more...
thus effectively increasing the overall amount of random state in
the system

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Re: CVS: herc.mirbsd.org: src

Dixi quod…

>Commit ID:	1004943EAA830C0300B

>* optimise, polish

Also makes check.t use set -U instead of set -o utf8-mode more: when
looking if it’s set/unset, use $- ipv $(set +o) – much shorter/easier

//mirabilos
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Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
in English text in bold font.	-- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"

mksh sample: RPS1

The below ~/.mkshrc addition emulates zsh $RPS1 behaviour, somewhat
(not with multi-line prompts or in realtime, though, and the input
line editor does not know about it, so it might overwrite it until
the next prompt is drawn):

begin 644 sample
M9G5N8W1I;VX <at> <')E8VUD('L*"71Y<&5S970 <at> 93TD/R!J(', <at> ;&5N/3`*" <at> ES
M970 <at> +4$ <at> :B`D*&IO8G, <at> +7`I" <at> EI9B`H*"`D>R-J6RI=?2`I*3L <at> =&AE; <at> H)
M"7,])'LC:ELJ77T*"0DH*"!E("DI("8F(',](B1S("(*"69I" <at> EL96X])'LC
M<WT*"7,](AM;,3LS,VTD<R(*"6EF(" <at> H(&4 <at> *2D[('1H96X*"0ES/2(D<QM;
M,3LS,6TD92(*"0EL970 <at> ;&5N*STD>R-E?0H)9FD*"7!R:6YT("UN("(;-QM;
?)" <at> H0T],54U.4R`M(&QE;BDI1R1S&ULP;1LX( <at> I]" <at> ``
`
end

Have fun!

bye,
//mira“mksh – few things are impossible, they just l̲o̲o̲k̲ different”bilos
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ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
in English text in bold font.	-- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"

WAPBL in NetBSD

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.announce/399

I would love to have this too.

--Benny.

Re: WAPBL in NetBSD

Benny Siegert dixit:

[ WAPBL ]

We have too many VFS and UVM bugs. Our UFS is different.
Besides, journalling merely adds overhead which softupdates
avoid (even though the softdep code *also* has bugs – the
WAPBL code however isn’t devoid of them either).

I looked a bit into it when it first came out weeks ago.

That said, I won’t be stopping certain people from porting
this over from TNF to MirBSD if they then so desire.

bye,
//mirabilos
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Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
in English text in bold font.	-- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"