Even though POSIX allows us to return simply /dev/tty as a pathname
identifying the controlling terminal of the running process, it is nicer
if this function were actually useful, by returning the actual pathname
of the controlling terminal.
Implement ctermid() by using the kern.devname sysctl to resolve the
actual name of /dev/tty. Don't use devname(3), since it may return bogus
strings like #C:0x123.
As of FreeBSD 6, devices can only be opened through devfs. These device
nodes don't have major and minor numbers anymore. The st_rdev field in
struct stat is simply based a copy of st_ino.
Simply display device numbers as hexadecimal, using "%#jx". This is
allowed by POSIX, since it explicitly states things like the following
(example taken from ls(1)):
"If the file is a character special or block special file, the
size of the file may be replaced with implementation-defined
information associated with the device in question."
This makes the output of these commands more compact. For example, ls(1)
now uses approximately four columns less. While there, simplify the
column length calculation from ls(1) by calling snprintf() with a NULL
buffer.
Don't be afraid; if needed one can still obtain individual major/minor
numbers using stat(1).
conversion, conversion must fail and errno must be set to E2BIG.
PR: standards/160673
Submitted by: Henning Petersen <henning.petersen@t-online.de>
Reviewed by: pluknet
Approved by: re (kib), delphij (mentor)
A "process descriptor" file descriptor is used to manage processes
without using the PID namespace. This is required for Capsicum's
Capability Mode, where the PID namespace is unavailable.
New system calls pdfork(2) and pdkill(2) offer the functional equivalents
of fork(2) and kill(2). pdgetpid(2) allows querying the PID of the remote
process for debugging purposes. The currently-unimplemented pdwait(2) will,
in the future, allow querying rusage/exit status. In the interim, poll(2)
may be used to check (and wait for) process termination.
When a process is referenced by a process descriptor, it does not issue
SIGCHLD to the parent, making it suitable for use in libraries---a common
scenario when using library compartmentalisation from within large
applications (such as web browsers). Some observers may note a similarity
to Mach task ports; process descriptors provide a subset of this behaviour,
but in a UNIX style.
This feature is enabled by "options PROCDESC", but as with several other
Capsicum kernel features, is not enabled by default in GENERIC 9.0.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
* Decouple the path supervision using a separate HB timer per path.
* Add support for potentially failed state.
* Bring back RTO.min to 1 second.
* Accept packets on IP-addresses already announced via an ASCONF
* While there: do some cleanups.
Approved by: re@
MFC after: 2 months.
These system calls have already been implemented in the kernel; now we
hook up libc symbols so userspace can drive them.
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
-g, by reverting r219139. The LLVM PR referenced in that revision was
fixed in the mean time, and we imported a clang snapshot soon
afterwards, so the temporary workaround of disabling clang's integrated
assembler is no longer needed.
In this particular case, using e.g. DEBUG_FLAGS=-g causes clang to
output certain directives into assembly that our version of GNU as
chokes on.
Reported by: dougb
Approved by: re (kib)
Formerly, in this case an error was returned but the pid was also returned
to the application, requiring the application to use unspecified behaviour
(the returned pid in error situations) to avoid zombies.
Now, reap the zombie and do not return the pid.
MFC after: 2 weeks
As noted in Austin Group issue #370 (an interpretation has been issued),
failing posix_spawn() because an fd specified with
posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose() is not open is unnecessarily harsh, and
there are existing implementations that do not fail posix_spawn() for this
reason.
Reviewed by: ed
MFC after: 10 days
Some files keep the SUN4V tags as a code reference, for the future,
if any rewamped sun4v support wants to be added again.
Reviewed by: marius
Tested by: sbruno
Approved by: re
* Cleanup usage of iov's.
* Add support for SCTP_TIMEOUTS socketoption.
* Fix a bug in sctp_recvmsg(): return the msg_flags in case of an error.
* Fix a bug in the error handling of sctp_peeloff(): return the -1.
- While here, remove a few C comments that don't seem to contribute
anything additional to the man page.
PR: 146047
Submitted by: arundel
MFC after: 3 days
vop_stdallocate() is filesystem agnostic and will run as slow as a
read/write loop in userspace; however, it serves to correctly
implement the functionality for filesystems that do not implement a
VOP_ALLOCATE.
Note that __FreeBSD_version was already bumped today to 900036 for any
ports which would like to use this function.
Also reserve space in the syscall table for posix_fadvise(2).
Reviewed by: -arch (previous version)
negative return value from write to update its position in
a buffer. The patch, courtesy of Andrey Simonenko, also simplifies
a conditional by removing the "i != cnt" clause, since it is
always true at this point in the code. The bug caused problems
for mountd, when it generated a large reply to an exports RPC
request.
Submitted by: simon at comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
MFC after: 2 weeks
Of course, strerror_r() may still fail with ERANGE.
Although the POSIX specification said this could fail with EINVAL and
doing this likely indicates invalid use of errno, most other
implementations permitted it, various POSIX testsuites require it to
work (matching the older sys_errlist array) and apparently some
applications depend on it.
PR: standards/151316
MFC after: 1 week
