and CPU runtime because it can't access the user area via /proc/<pid>/mem.
This is because the uarea is not mapped into the process address space
at USRSTACK on the alpha like it is on the x86.
Since I'm haven't been able to wrap my brain around the VM system enough
to be able to figure out how to achieve this mapping, and since it's
questionable that such an architectural change is correct, I implemented
a workaround to allow ps(1) to read the uarea from /dev/kmem using
kvm_read() instead of from the process address space via kvm_uread().
The kludge is hidden inside #ifdef __alpha__/#endif so as not to impact
the x86. (Note that top(1) probably uses this same gimmick since it works
on FreeBSD/alpha.)
Reviewed by: dfr
make /etc/rc interruptible in cases when programs hang with blocked
signals) isn't standard enough.
It is now switched off by default and a new switch -T enables it.
You should update /etc/rc to the version I'm about to commit in a few
minutes to keep it interruptible.
This takes the conditionals out of the code that has been tested by
various people for a while.
ps and friends (libkvm) will need a recompile as some proc structure
changes are made.
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <lists@tar.com>
Obtained from: linux :-)
Code to allow Linux Threads to run under FreeBSD.
By default not enabled
This code is dependent on the conditional
COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS (suggested by Garret)
This is not yet a 'real' option but will be within some number of hours.
pattern matches will occur at offset zero of the source string. The bug causes
the input source string pointer to be incremented by the offset of the end of
the match, instead of it's length. The fix is to only increment the pointer by
the length of the pattern match (eo-so).
Of course, the one example in the man page shows a situation where the match
occurs at offset 0.
Submitted by: John W. DeBoskey <jwd@unx.sas.com>
Obtained from: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
for regular files. This fixes recent breakage of cp'ing from /dev/zero.
/dev/zero doesn't support mmap(), but the device driver mmap routines are
not called for mapping 0 bytes, so the error was not detected. mmap()
can't even be used for cp'ing special files that support mmap(), since
there is general way to determine the file size.
execvp() in the child branch of a vfork(). Changed to use fork()
instead.
Some of these (mv, find, apply, xargs) might benefit greatly from
being rewritten to use vfork() properly.
PR: Loosely related to bin/8252
Approved by: jkh and bde
