interface, and statically link them to the programs using them.
These functions, upon reflection and discussion, are too generically
named for a library interface with such specific functionality.
Also the api that they use, whilst ok for private use, isn't good
enough for a libc function.
Additionally there were complications with the build/install-world
process. It depends heavily upon xinstall, which got broken by
the change in api, and caused bootstrap problems and general mayhem.
There is work in progress to address future problems that may be
caused by changes in install-chain tools, and better names for
{g|s}etflags can be derived when some future program requires them.
For now the code has been left in src/lib/libc/gen (it started off
in src/bin/ls).
It's important to provide library functions for manipulating file
flag strings if we ever want this interface to be adopted outside
of the source tree, but now isn't necessarily the right moment
with 4.0-release just around the corner.
Approved: jkh
string to u_long and back using two functions, flags_to_string and
string_to_flags, which co-existed with 'ls'. As time has progressed
more and more other tools have used these private functions to
manipulate the file flags.
Recently I moved these functions from /usr/src/bin/ls to libutil,
but after some discussion with bde it's been decided that they
really ought to go in libc.
There are two already existing libc functions for manipulating file
modes: setmode and getmode. In keeping with these flags_to_string
has been renamed getflags and string_to_flags to setflags.
The manual page could probably be improved upon ;)
. add Xrs to hosts.equiv(5), auth.conf(5), services(5) to some pages
. sort Xrs in SEE ALSO sections
Patches based on PR: docs/15680
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
from the source attributed below. In particular, this removes a goto
inside a switch and replaces those horrendous ATOI macros with
something acceptable.
More clean-ups to come.
PR: bin/14151
Reported by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Obtained from: NetBSD
common way of setting the hostname. The man page already mentioned that
the hostname is set by /etc/rc.network, so this just explains where
/etc/rc.network gets the hostname from.
PR: docs/14319
Submitted by: rwatson
Reviewed by: cmc
respectively, in accordance with SUSv2.
This differs from the approach taken in NetBSD, but provides
less obscure error messages in at least the EISDIR case and
does not take up additional disk space for new binaries.
PR: 13071
PR: 13074
Requested by: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
Obtained from: parts of human readable code from OpenBSD
Reviewed by: obrien
add POSIX, byte and megabyte block size ouput flags
PR: 13579 (POSIX flag)
Submitted by: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
bfumerola for that pointer!) in GCC complaining about losing a const.
While I'm here, might as well mark in the Makefile that I'm the
${MAINTAINER}. It seems like that's what everyone's doing these days.
in that revision as well as things I broke in that revision. A note-
worthy instance of the latter case was the inversion of -E and -V in the
subsection on Commandline Editing.
Turn off setgid-kmem for /bin/ps, it's now quite functional without it.
ps no longer needs /dev/*mem or /proc. (It will still use some /proc
files if they are available for -e, but it's not required, so it'll
happily run in a jail or chroot).
The proc stats are now part of eproc (obtained via sysctl) and no longer
needs to beat up the u-page reading code and the problems with that.
This also has the side effect of disabling 'ps -e' for normal users
*EXCEPT* when looking at their own processes. ie: they can see
environments in processes with their uid, enforced by the ownership of
/proc/*/mem. Root can still see them all, as it can open all /proc/*/mem.
This fixes some nasty procfs problems for SMP, makes ps(1) run much faster,
and makes ps(1) even less dependent on /proc which will aid chroot and
jails alike.
To disable this facility and revert to previous behaviour:
sysctl -w kern.ps_arg_cache_limit=0
For full details see the current@FreeBSD.org mail-archives.
than two processes (got that? :-), the stdin fd of the middle
processes that has just been set up was accidetially closed. Don't do
this.
PR: bin/14527
be ignored by default by the df(1) program. This is used mostly to
avoid stat()-ing entries that do not represent "real" disk mount
points (such as those made by an automounter such as amd.) It is
also useful not to have to stat() these entries because it takes
longer to report them that for other file systems, being that these
mount points are served by a user-level file server and resulting in
several context switches. Worse, if the automounter is down
unexpectedly, a causal df(1) will hang in an interruptible way.
PR: kern/9764
Submitted by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
