From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 14 17:43:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747D937B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:43:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA07214; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:43:17 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id f1F1gXl55945; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:42:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14987.13321.676098.108958@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:42:33 -0500 (EST) To: Terry Lambert Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin), Peter.Blok@inter.NL.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unaligned access In-Reply-To: <200102150046.RAA10115@usr08.primenet.com> References: <14986.54140.54832.224655@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200102150046.RAA10115@usr08.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > This may already be there, since I'm running rather old Alpha > code (multia didn't work again until recently, and SMP work > means "Stable Machine Precluded" to me), but it might be useful > to add a "uap" argument that will suppress the printing of the > meessages on a per process basis (sort of the opposite of the > "cause a segmentation fault" flag). This would let the console > be usable for things like CVSup of new code, when the process > that provides yor connection to the network is faulting all over > the place, and you need to download new code for it. See the uac man page. Specifically, the -p arg: UAC(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual UAC(1) NAME uac - Unaligned Access Message Control SYNOPSIS uac [-fprs] <...> -p Unaligned access errors are not printed for the parent and its future descendants. Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message