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New release notes: O_DIRECT flag for open(2) and fcntl(2), RFC 1323

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enabled by default for TCP, ipfw(8) -d, Makefile WARNS, boot-time
enable of background_fsck, ping(8) -A, vidcontrol(1) -p, telnet(1) -u,
default vinum(8) stripe size change to 279KB, OpenSSH 0.9.6.

MFCs noted:  smbfs kernel part.
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re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as
the PC/Xem.<para>
<para>The <literal>O_DIRECT</literal> flag has been added to
&man.open.2; and &man.fcntl.2;. Specifying this flag for open
files will attempt to minimize the cache effects of reading and
writing.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
@ -360,6 +365,9 @@
<para>The <literal>TCP_COMPAT_42</literal> kernel option has
been removed.</para>
<para>TCP now has RFC 1323 extensions enabled by default in
&man.rc.conf.5;. &merged;</para>
<para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>,
which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming
packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the
@ -373,6 +381,9 @@
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP
segments. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now has a <option>-d</option> flag to prevent
the display of dynamic firewall rules.</para>
<para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some
enhancements and bug fixes.</para>
@ -525,8 +536,8 @@
<para>The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been
changed to improve its speed on large filesystems.</para>
<para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added.</para>
<para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been
added. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@ -859,6 +870,12 @@
behavior, bad assumptions about current directory permissions, and
potential buffer overflows, have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &os; <filename>Makefile</filename> infrastructure now
supports the <varname>WARNS</varname> directive from NetBSD. This
directive controls the addition of compiler warning flags to
<varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral
manner.</para>
<para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature
provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different
types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para>
@ -984,7 +1001,9 @@
checking on all the filesystems that can do background checking.
Unlike the foreground checking, the background checking is started
asynchronously so that other system activity can proceed even on
the filesystems that are being checked.</para>
the filesystems that are being checked. Boot-time enabling of
this feature is controlled by the
<varname>background_fsck</varname> option in &man.rc.conf.5;.</para>
<para>Catching up with most other network utilities in the base
system, &man.lpr.1;, &man.lpd.8;, &man.syslogd.8;, and
@ -1185,6 +1204,9 @@
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> option to
set the TTL of outgoing packets. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to
beep when packets are lost.</para>
<para>A version of Transport Independent RPC
(<application>TI-RPC</application>) has been imported.</para>
@ -1223,6 +1245,11 @@
specification when loading a font, and has some better
error-handling.</para>
<para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> to
take a snapshot of a &man.syscons.4; video buffer. These
snapshots can be manipulated by some of the
<filename>scr2*</filename> utilities in the Ports Collection.</para>
<para>devinfo, a simple tool to print the device tree and resource usage by
devices, has been added.</para>
@ -1264,6 +1291,13 @@
<para>&man.telnet.1; now does autologin and encryption by default;
a new <option>-y</option> option turns off encryption.</para>
<para>&man.telnet.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> flag to
allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>)
sockets.</para>
<para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed
from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between
stripes.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
@ -1429,7 +1463,7 @@
<title>OpenSSL</title>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been upgraded to
0.9.6. &merged;</para>
0.9.6a.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> now has support for
machine-dependent ASM optimizations, activated by the new

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re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as
the PC/Xem.<para>
<para>The <literal>O_DIRECT</literal> flag has been added to
&man.open.2; and &man.fcntl.2;. Specifying this flag for open
files will attempt to minimize the cache effects of reading and
writing.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
@ -360,6 +365,9 @@
<para>The <literal>TCP_COMPAT_42</literal> kernel option has
been removed.</para>
<para>TCP now has RFC 1323 extensions enabled by default in
&man.rc.conf.5;. &merged;</para>
<para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>,
which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming
packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the
@ -373,6 +381,9 @@
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP
segments. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now has a <option>-d</option> flag to prevent
the display of dynamic firewall rules.</para>
<para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some
enhancements and bug fixes.</para>
@ -525,8 +536,8 @@
<para>The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been
changed to improve its speed on large filesystems.</para>
<para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added.</para>
<para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been
added. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@ -859,6 +870,12 @@
behavior, bad assumptions about current directory permissions, and
potential buffer overflows, have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &os; <filename>Makefile</filename> infrastructure now
supports the <varname>WARNS</varname> directive from NetBSD. This
directive controls the addition of compiler warning flags to
<varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral
manner.</para>
<para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature
provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different
types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para>
@ -984,7 +1001,9 @@
checking on all the filesystems that can do background checking.
Unlike the foreground checking, the background checking is started
asynchronously so that other system activity can proceed even on
the filesystems that are being checked.</para>
the filesystems that are being checked. Boot-time enabling of
this feature is controlled by the
<varname>background_fsck</varname> option in &man.rc.conf.5;.</para>
<para>Catching up with most other network utilities in the base
system, &man.lpr.1;, &man.lpd.8;, &man.syslogd.8;, and
@ -1185,6 +1204,9 @@
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> option to
set the TTL of outgoing packets. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to
beep when packets are lost.</para>
<para>A version of Transport Independent RPC
(<application>TI-RPC</application>) has been imported.</para>
@ -1223,6 +1245,11 @@
specification when loading a font, and has some better
error-handling.</para>
<para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> to
take a snapshot of a &man.syscons.4; video buffer. These
snapshots can be manipulated by some of the
<filename>scr2*</filename> utilities in the Ports Collection.</para>
<para>devinfo, a simple tool to print the device tree and resource usage by
devices, has been added.</para>
@ -1264,6 +1291,13 @@
<para>&man.telnet.1; now does autologin and encryption by default;
a new <option>-y</option> option turns off encryption.</para>
<para>&man.telnet.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> flag to
allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>)
sockets.</para>
<para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed
from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between
stripes.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
@ -1429,7 +1463,7 @@
<title>OpenSSL</title>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been upgraded to
0.9.6. &merged;</para>
0.9.6a.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> now has support for
machine-dependent ASM optimizations, activated by the new

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re-initialise cards that have external port modules attached such as
the PC/Xem.<para>
<para>The <literal>O_DIRECT</literal> flag has been added to
&man.open.2; and &man.fcntl.2;. Specifying this flag for open
files will attempt to minimize the cache effects of reading and
writing.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Processor/Motherboard Support</title>
@ -360,6 +365,9 @@
<para>The <literal>TCP_COMPAT_42</literal> kernel option has
been removed.</para>
<para>TCP now has RFC 1323 extensions enabled by default in
&man.rc.conf.5;. &merged;</para>
<para>A new sysctl <literal>net.inet.ip.check_interface</literal>,
which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming
packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the
@ -373,6 +381,9 @@
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP
segments. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ipfw.8; now has a <option>-d</option> flag to prevent
the display of dynamic firewall rules.</para>
<para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some
enhancements and bug fixes.</para>
@ -525,8 +536,8 @@
<para>The directory layout preference algorithm for FFS has been
changed to improve its speed on large filesystems.</para>
<para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been added.</para>
<para arch="i386">smbfs (CIFS) support in kernel has been
added. &merged;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@ -859,6 +870,12 @@
behavior, bad assumptions about current directory permissions, and
potential buffer overflows, have been fixed. &merged;</para>
<para>The &os; <filename>Makefile</filename> infrastructure now
supports the <varname>WARNS</varname> directive from NetBSD. This
directive controls the addition of compiler warning flags to
<varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral
manner.</para>
<para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature
provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different
types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para>
@ -984,7 +1001,9 @@
checking on all the filesystems that can do background checking.
Unlike the foreground checking, the background checking is started
asynchronously so that other system activity can proceed even on
the filesystems that are being checked.</para>
the filesystems that are being checked. Boot-time enabling of
this feature is controlled by the
<varname>background_fsck</varname> option in &man.rc.conf.5;.</para>
<para>Catching up with most other network utilities in the base
system, &man.lpr.1;, &man.lpd.8;, &man.syslogd.8;, and
@ -1185,6 +1204,9 @@
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-m</option> option to
set the TTL of outgoing packets. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.ping.8; now supports a <option>-A</option> option to
beep when packets are lost.</para>
<para>A version of Transport Independent RPC
(<application>TI-RPC</application>) has been imported.</para>
@ -1223,6 +1245,11 @@
specification when loading a font, and has some better
error-handling.</para>
<para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now supports a <option>-p</option> to
take a snapshot of a &man.syscons.4; video buffer. These
snapshots can be manipulated by some of the
<filename>scr2*</filename> utilities in the Ports Collection.</para>
<para>devinfo, a simple tool to print the device tree and resource usage by
devices, has been added.</para>
@ -1264,6 +1291,13 @@
<para>&man.telnet.1; now does autologin and encryption by default;
a new <option>-y</option> option turns off encryption.</para>
<para>&man.telnet.1; now supports a <option>-u</option> flag to
allow connections to UNIX-domain (<literal>AF_UNIX</literal>)
sockets.</para>
<para>The default stripe size in &man.vinum.8; has been changed
from 256KB to 279KB, to spread out superblocks more evenly between
stripes.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
@ -1429,7 +1463,7 @@
<title>OpenSSL</title>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been upgraded to
0.9.6. &merged;</para>
0.9.6a.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSL</application> now has support for
machine-dependent ASM optimizations, activated by the new