i didn't even know it existed until you mentioned it

though looking at it, since it seems to be a way to quickly map a 32-bit value to a pointer (at least in the few places it's used), i'm guessing the assumption is the things it's trying to 'map' are going to be heap allocated objects

[illumos-gate] 17876 newlocale should understand how libstdc++ names composite locales -- Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld⊙ho>

uugh

(more fighting installboot)

Sounds like a country/western band name.

nomad I'll put on my installboots. ;-)

i'll be opening some tickets

it's error handling 'needs work'

Our headliner act, "The Fighting Installboots"

(which is to say, it would make one want to embrace the cold sweet caress of death)

jbk: I appreciate your sacrafice.

also fun: the FAT32 implementation in this system's firmware apparently has buggy write support

do... people have the firmware do a lot of writes?

well i was trying to copy a file on the UEFI system partition from the UEFI shell

whew

which rendered it unreadable to UEFI

I'm going to guess they don't then :)

(yet not to illumos)

yeah... just booting from virtual takes somewhere on the order of 40 minutes on this machine... so I was trying to avoid that

I, uh, what?

err virtual iso

is it reading byte-by-byte or something?

is it emulating 1x to be safe?

why is everything bad :)

well i think it does you java, so... :)

granted sun eventually fixed that at least on solaris

(if you ever tried symon and wondered why it was making your hard drive scream in agony, it was issuing 1 byte syscalls)

it being the jre

it was quite amusing bug.

i was actually astonished when I figured out what was going on

like here was was maybe a year or so out of college (if that)... and _I_ knew why that was a horrible thing to do... I sort of (naively) assumed that Sun would have done better :P

andyf: FYI something is wrong with reverse DNS for mail.citrus-it.net. - getting SERVFAIL; dig @8.8.8.8 -x 89.248.55.103 has some diagnostics

sommerfeld - Thank you, will get it fixed!

looks like both scorpion.citrus-it.net and trinidad.citrus-it.net forgot that they were supposed to be authoritative for a chunk of reverse space..

Well those are brand new servers that very recently replaced the old ones, and it looks like something is wrong with the reverse DNS..

from here it looks like they're missing the 64/26.55.248.89.in-addr.arpa. zone (love those weirdo rfc2317 names..)

That looks a bit better now. Thanks again for letting me know

yes, looks better from here as well.