version of strdup() by a macro, killed many calls to strdup(), thus
potentially wasting less malloc'ed space (their args were never be
free()ed desptie despite of being malloc'ed). Probably still a huge
memory leak at all... Also killed two totally useless variables.
I've tested it as i could, but wouldn't be surprised if unexpected
problems showed up. So watch out this space!
conservative part of the tidyup, like fixing potential buffer overflow
conditions. It is believed to be safe to go into 2.2.
Pointed out by: lozenko@cc.acnit.ac.ru (Evgeny A. Lozenko)
I went over the code.
Add shortcuts for addUser and addGroup, documenting same.
Add a password field for adduser and use no-echo string field for it.
This requires my latest libdialog changes (in RELENG_2_2 or -current) to work.
the profiling level in config and decide what to do in makefiles.
Makefile.i386:
Align functions to 16-byte boundaries if profiling is enabled. This
will allow a fourfold reduction in the size of the profiling buffers.
(otherwise ppp's behavior remains unchanged) and documented by myself,
Steve Sims, Nate Williams, Martin Renters and god-only-knows who else. :-)
Submitted by: nate
Obtained from: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
1. Don't use the MSDOSFS code for accessing FreeBSD distribution data.
Use Robert Nordier's stand-alone DOS I/O library for the purpose.
It this works as well as Robert says it does, it should drastically reduce
(or even eliminate) our "I can't install from my DOS partition!" calls.
2. As a result of the above, go to stdio file descriptors for all
media types.
3. Taking advantage of #2, start using libftpio for FTP transfers instead
of maintaining our own parallel version of the FTP transfer code.
Yay! I ripped something out for a change!
#1 Submitted-By: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
has always held an open file descriptor. This allowed logging to
spare virtual consoles and being able to switch to them.
My previous change removed this since all writes were done with ttymsg()
which opens it's own fd, and hence syslogd didn't need it's own fd to
send messages on... but this caused an unexpected behavior change.
This should close PR#2176
do it themselves. (Some of these programs actually depended on this
beyond compiling the definition of struct ifinfo!) Also fix up some
other #include messes while we're at it.
obvious effects are that most of the automagically chosen defaults
will now be displayed while going through the menu, and an improved
error handling thanks to the more detailed error status reporting.
2.2 fodder, but i'll leave it to Jordan's review.
sysinstall's new User&group menu will use it, hence it's a 2.2
candidate despite of providing new functionality.
Submitted by: David L. Nugent, <davidn@blaze.net.au>
bogus or overly complex and really needed to be done more consistently
and sanely throughout - no question about it. Done.
Suggested-By: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM>
which will also need to be brought in before this screen will work.
Add some commentary about how the slip startup code is bogus.
Steal Joerg's loop for more properly closing all files and graft it into
the EHS startup. My loop was functional but more bogus.
o Incorporate some of Tatsumi's bug fixes.
o Remove the xperimnt and commerce distribution items; they haven't
been actual distributions for awhile.
o Try to sanitize the device checking code a little more.
o Cosmetic work on the network code.
to keep the link up, so it re-dials whenever it detects the link go
down. This is useful for 'dedicated' links who use PPP.
It's been used for over a year w/out problems at different sites.
when I came up with this idea weren't strong enough to help me see it
through. If this was a self-contained application and I had complete
control over what data got sent through what socket and when, I might
be able to get everything to work right without blocking, but instead
I have RPC/XDR in between me and the socket layer, and they have their
own ideas about what to do.
Maybe one day I'll go totally mad and figure out the right way to do
this; in the meantime this mess goes on the back burner.
