Support slice numbers in device names. The syntax is `<driver name>
[<unit number>] ['s' <slice number>] [<partition letter>]'. Only
`['s' <slice number>]' is new here. The slice number defaults to 0
so that there is no change in the output from config if this new
feature is not used.
Replace some magic disk numbers by `dk' slice and label macros.
mkswapconf.c:
Improve the output formatting:
Generate <> style includes.
Print minor numbers in hex so that slice numbers are easy to see and edit.
Print the rootdev and dumpdev names in comments like the swapdev names.
Add the `lc' option to default. Having getty understand the issues of
CAPS-only terminals is a nop these days, but `lc' avoids hassles for
people with CAPS-only user names.
Suggested by: Don Yuniskis
weekly:
Modify the call to makewhatis, now that our makewhatis can take the
entire ${MANPATH} as a single argument.
The existing ypbind exhibits some truly anti-social behavior. After
initially establishing a binding with an NIS server, the following events
take place:
- ypbind waits for 60 seconds before trying to broadcast a ping again
- after the 60 seconds expires, ypbind sends out broadcasts every 5 seconds
come hell or high water.
These broadcasts travel far and wide, even to NIS servers in other domains
which dutifully log the packets even though they don't respond to them.
This leads to lots of unnecessary traffic and bloated log files.
This behavior has been fixed/changed. Here's what happens now:
- We still broadcast every 5 seconds at startup, just like before.
- Once bound, we send out packets once every 60 seconds to the server
we're bound to AND NO ONE ELSE.
- If we fail to receive a reply from our server within FAIL_THRESHOLD
seconds, we assume our server has croaked and go back to broadcasting
everywhere every 5 seconds again until somebody answers. FAIL_THRESHOLD
is currently set to 20 seconds.
Other fixes/improvements:
- ypbind now logs 'server not responding' and 'server OK' messages where
appropriate.
Thanks to Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> for
reporting the problem and guilt-tripping me into fixing it. :)
when ttselect() is improved. This requires using an array of tty structs
and not using ttymalloc().
Fix an off by 1 error. Some caclulations seem to be off by a factor
of NCY. NCY defaults to 16, which gives 256 tty structs occupying
0xd000 bytes. The minor number encoding only allows 16 ttys.
Update the types of timeout functions to 2.0.
