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Peter Wemm
0ecd57ad0b Fix part of another problem that bde pointed out. This is different
to what bde suggested though.
2001-08-16 23:43:24 +00:00
Peter Wemm
5a66a2532b Remove redundant null-termination. The buffer is already explicitly
zeroed, and we intentionally leave -1 on the strncpy length to leave
the original \0.

Submitted by: bde
2001-08-16 20:18:43 +00:00
Peter Wemm
77330eeba7 Use the backwards compatability mechanisms so that ps/top etc dont have
unnecessary breakage.

While here, use explicit sizes for the string fields so that we dont
have unintentional changes again in the future when key tunables change.

This still is not quite right, but a june userland is happy with
a -current kernel with these tweaks.
2001-08-16 08:41:15 +00:00
Robert Watson
a0f75161f9 o Replace calls to p_can(..., P_CAN_xxx) with calls to p_canxxx().
The p_can(...) construct was a premature (and, it turns out,
  awkward) abstraction.  The individual calls to p_canxxx() better
  reflect differences between the inter-process authorization checks,
  such as differing checks based on the type of signal.  This has
  a side effect of improving code readability.
o Replace direct credential authorization checks in ktrace() with
  invocation of p_candebug(), while maintaining the special case
  check of KTR_ROOT.  This allows ktrace() to "play more nicely"
  with new mandatory access control schemes, as well as making its
  authorization checks consistent with other "debugging class"
  checks.
o Eliminate "privused" construct for p_can*() calls which allowed the
  caller to determine if privilege was required for successful
  evaluation of the access control check.  This primitive is currently
  unused, and as such, serves only to complicate the API.

Approved by:	({procfs,linprocfs} changes) des
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2001-07-05 17:10:46 +00:00
John Baldwin
fbd26f7594 Fix some lock order reversals where we called free() while holding a proc
lock.  We now use temporary variables to save the process argument pointer
and just update the pointer while holding the lock.  We then perform the
free on the cached pointer after releasing the lock.
2001-06-20 23:10:06 +00:00
Robert Watson
b1fc0ec1a7 o Merge contents of struct pcred into struct ucred. Specifically, add the
real uid, saved uid, real gid, and saved gid to ucred, as well as the
  pcred->pc_uidinfo, which was associated with the real uid, only rename
  it to cr_ruidinfo so as not to conflict with cr_uidinfo, which
  corresponds to the effective uid.
o Remove p_cred from struct proc; add p_ucred to struct proc, replacing
  original macro that pointed.
  p->p_ucred to p->p_cred->pc_ucred.
o Universally update code so that it makes use of ucred instead of pcred,
  p->p_ucred instead of p->p_pcred, cr_ruidinfo instead of p_uidinfo,
  cr_{r,sv}{u,g}id instead of p_*, etc.
o Remove pcred0 and its initialization from init_main.c; initialize
  cr_ruidinfo there.
o Restruction many credential modification chunks to always crdup while
  we figure out locking and optimizations; generally speaking, this
  means moving to a structure like this:
        newcred = crdup(oldcred);
        ...
        p->p_ucred = newcred;
        crfree(oldcred);
  It's not race-free, but better than nothing.  There are also races
  in sys_process.c, all inter-process authorization, fork, exec, and
  exit.
o Remove sigio->sio_ruid since sigio->sio_ucred now contains the ruid;
  remove comments indicating that the old arrangement was a problem.
o Restructure exec1() a little to use newcred/oldcred arrangement, and
  use improved uid management primitives.
o Clean up exit1() so as to do less work in credential cleanup due to
  pcred removal.
o Clean up fork1() so as to do less work in credential cleanup and
  allocation.
o Clean up ktrcanset() to take into account changes, and move to using
  suser_xxx() instead of performing a direct uid==0 comparision.
o Improve commenting in various kern_prot.c credential modification
  calls to better document current behavior.  In a couple of places,
  current behavior is a little questionable and we need to check
  POSIX.1 to make sure it's "right".  More commenting work still
  remains to be done.
o Update credential management calls, such as crfree(), to take into
  account new ruidinfo reference.
o Modify or add the following uid and gid helper routines:
      change_euid()
      change_egid()
      change_ruid()
      change_rgid()
      change_svuid()
      change_svgid()
  In each case, the call now acts on a credential not a process, and as
  such no longer requires more complicated process locking/etc.  They
  now assume the caller will do any necessary allocation of an
  exclusive credential reference.  Each is commented to document its
  reference requirements.
o CANSIGIO() is simplified to require only credentials, not processes
  and pcreds.
o Remove lots of (p_pcred==NULL) checks.
o Add an XXX to authorization code in nfs_lock.c, since it's
  questionable, and needs to be considered carefully.
o Simplify posix4 authorization code to require only credentials, not
  processes and pcreds.  Note that this authorization, as well as
  CANSIGIO(), needs to be updated to use the p_cansignal() and
  p_cansched() centralized authorization routines, as they currently
  do not take into account some desirable restrictions that are handled
  by the centralized routines, as well as being inconsistent with other
  similar authorization instances.
o Update libkvm to take these changes into account.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Reviewed by:	green, bde, jhb, freebsd-arch, freebsd-audit
2001-05-25 16:59:11 +00:00
Mark Murray
fb919e4d5a Undo part of the tangle of having sys/lock.h and sys/mutex.h included in
other "system" header files.

Also help the deprecation of lockmgr.h by making it a sub-include of
sys/lock.h and removing sys/lockmgr.h form kernel .c files.

Sort sys/*.h includes where possible in affected files.

OK'ed by:	bde (with reservations)
2001-05-01 08:13:21 +00:00
John Baldwin
33a9ed9d0e Change the pfind() and zpfind() functions to lock the process that they
find before releasing the allproc lock and returning.

Reviewed by:	-smp, dfr, jake
2001-04-24 00:51:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
1005a129e5 Convert the allproc and proctree locks from lockmgr locks to sx locks. 2001-03-28 11:52:56 +00:00
David Malone
d1cadeb02a Don't leak the memory we've just malloced if we can't find the
process we're looking for. (I don't think this can currently
happen, but it depends how the function is called).

PR:		25932
Submitted by:	David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>
2001-03-27 20:49:51 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
393d77ffad Bitch more loudly when someone botches changes to kinfo_proc
in the hopes that they will actually *read* the comment above
it and *follow* the instructions so as to cause all the rest
of us less a lot less grief.
2001-03-07 06:52:12 +00:00
John Baldwin
15e9ec5153 Proc locking including using proc lock in place of proctree where
appropriate and locking processes while we signal them.
2001-03-07 03:28:50 +00:00
Robert Watson
91421ba234 o Move per-process jail pointer (p->pr_prison) to inside of the subject
credential structure, ucred (cr->cr_prison).
o Allow jail inheritence to be a function of credential inheritence.
o Abstract prison structure reference counting behind pr_hold() and
  pr_free(), invoked by the similarly named credential reference
  management functions, removing this code from per-ABI fork/exit code.
o Modify various jail() functions to use struct ucred arguments instead
  of struct proc arguments.
o Introduce jailed() function to determine if a credential is jailed,
  rather than directly checking pointers all over the place.
o Convert PRISON_CHECK() macro to prison_check() function.
o Move jail() function prototypes to jail.h.
o Emulate the P_JAILED flag in fill_kinfo_proc() and no longer set the
  flag in the process flags field itself.
o Eliminate that "const" qualifier from suser/p_can/etc to reflect
  mutex use.

Notes:

o Some further cleanup of the linux/jail code is still required.
o It's now possible to consider resolving some of the process vs
  credential based permission checking confusion in the socket code.
o Mutex protection of struct prison is still not present, and is
  required to protect the reference count plus some fields in the
  structure.

Reviewed by:	freebsd-arch
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2001-02-21 06:39:57 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
d5a08a6065 Implement a unified run queue and adjust priority levels accordingly.
- All processes go into the same array of queues, with different
  scheduling classes using different portions of the array.  This
  allows user processes to have their priorities propogated up into
  interrupt thread range if need be.
- I chose 64 run queues as an arbitrary number that is greater than
  32.  We used to have 4 separate arrays of 32 queues each, so this
  may not be optimal.  The new run queue code was written with this
  in mind; changing the number of run queues only requires changing
  constants in runq.h and adjusting the priority levels.
- The new run queue code takes the run queue as a parameter.  This
  is intended to be used to create per-cpu run queues.  Implement
  wrappers for compatibility with the old interface which pass in
  the global run queue structure.
- Group the priority level, user priority, native priority (before
  propogation) and the scheduling class into a struct priority.
- Change any hard coded priority levels that I found to use
  symbolic constants (TTIPRI and TTOPRI).
- Remove the curpriority global variable and use that of curproc.
  This was used to detect when a process' priority had lowered and
  it should yield.  We now effectively yield on every interrupt.
- Activate propogate_priority().  It should now have the desired
  effect without needing to also propogate the scheduling class.
- Temporarily comment out the call to vm_page_zero_idle() in the
  idle loop.  It interfered with propogate_priority() because
  the idle process needed to do a non-blocking acquire of Giant
  and then other processes would try to propogate their priority
  onto it.  The idle process should not do anything except idle.
  vm_page_zero_idle() will return in the form of an idle priority
  kernel thread which is woken up at apprioriate times by the vm
  system.
- Update struct kinfo_proc to the new priority interface.  Deliberately
  change its size by adjusting the spare fields.  It remained the same
  size, but the layout has changed, so userland processes that use it
  would parse the data incorrectly.  The size constraint should really
  be changed to an arbitrary version number.  Also add a debug.sizeof
  sysctl node for struct kinfo_proc.
2001-02-12 00:20:08 +00:00
John Baldwin
1aa97cdea7 Work around some sizeof(long) != sizeof(int) bogons. 2001-02-09 19:02:39 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
9ed346bab0 Change and clean the mutex lock interface.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:

mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.

The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.

Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:

MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH

The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:

mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.

Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.

Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.

Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.

Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.

Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
2001-02-09 06:11:45 +00:00
John Baldwin
6d3e7b9b0b Add a new item to kinfo_proc: ki_sflag to mirror p_sflag. 2001-01-24 12:49:52 +00:00
John Baldwin
42a4ed9975 - Proc locking.
- Catch up to proc flag changes.
- Reorder the way we get things in fill_kinfoproc() to minimize the
  number of locking operations.
2001-01-24 11:05:50 +00:00
John Baldwin
b947e93403 - Use sched_lock to prevent the mutex name from changing out from under us
while we are copying it to the kinfo_proc structure.
- Test against p_stat to see if we are blocked on a mutex.
- Terminate ki_mtxname with a null char rather than ki_wmesg.
2001-01-13 23:08:34 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
98f03f9030 Protect proc.p_pptr and proc.p_children/p_sibling with the
proctree_lock.

linprocfs not locked pending response from informal maintainer.

Reviewed by:	jhb, -smp@
2000-12-23 19:43:10 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
c0c2557090 - Change the allproc_lock to use a macro, ALLPROC_LOCK(how), instead
of explicit calls to lockmgr.  Also provides macros for the flags
  pased to specify shared, exclusive or release which map to the
  lockmgr flags.  This is so that the use of lockmgr can be easily
  replaced with optimized reader-writer locks.
- Add some locking that I missed the first time.
2000-12-13 00:17:05 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
1f7d250182 Change the proc information returned from the kernel so that it
no longer contains kernel specific data structures, but rather
only scalar values and structures that are already part of the
kernel/user interface, specifically rusage and rtprio. It no
longer contains proc, session, pcred, ucred, procsig, vmspace,
pstats, mtx, sigiolst, klist, callout, pasleep, or mdproc. If
any of these changed in size, ps, w, fstat, gcore, systat, and
top would all stop working. The new structure has over 200 bytes
of unassigned space for future values to be added, yet is nearly
100 bytes smaller per entry than the structure that it replaced.
2000-12-12 07:25:57 +00:00
John Baldwin
62ca2477d8 Save a copy of p_mtxname in e_mtxname when creating an eproc. 2000-11-29 20:14:50 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
553629ebc9 Protect the following with a lockmgr lock:
allproc
	zombproc
	pidhashtbl
	proc.p_list
	proc.p_hash
	nextpid

Reviewed by:	jhb
Obtained from:	BSD/OS and netbsd
2000-11-22 07:42:04 +00:00
Jason Evans
0384fff8c5 Major update to the way synchronization is done in the kernel. Highlights
include:

* Mutual exclusion is used instead of spl*().  See mutex(9).  (Note: The
  alpha port is still in transition and currently uses both.)

* Per-CPU idle processes.

* Interrupts are run in their own separate kernel threads and can be
  preempted (i386 only).

Partially contributed by:	BSDi (BSD/OS)
Submissions by (at least):	cp, dfr, dillon, grog, jake, jhb, sheldonh
2000-09-07 01:33:02 +00:00
Don Lewis
f535380cb6 Remove uidinfo hash table lookup and maintenance out of chgproccnt() and
chgsbsize(), which are called rather frequently and may be called from an
interrupt context in the case of chgsbsize().  Instead, do the hash table
lookup and maintenance when credentials are changed, which is a lot less
frequent.  Add pointers to the uidinfo structures to the ucred and pcred
structures for fast access.  Pass a pointer to the credential to chgproccnt()
and chgsbsize() instead of passing the uid.  Add a reference count to the
uidinfo structure and use it to decide when to free the structure rather
than freeing the structure when the resource consumption drops to zero.
Move the resource tracking code from kern_proc.c to kern_resource.c.  Move
some duplicate code sequences in kern_prot.c to separate helper functions.
Change KASSERTs in this code to unconditional tests and calls to panic().
2000-09-05 22:11:13 +00:00
Brian Feldman
468ddc8a44 Casts are needed to subtract u_longs.
Submitted by:	tor
2000-08-31 22:21:33 +00:00
Robert Watson
387d2c036b o Centralize inter-process access control, introducing:
int p_can(p1, p2, operation, privused)

  which allows specification of subject process, object process,
  inter-process operation, and an optional call-by-reference privused
  flag, allowing the caller to determine if privilege was required
  for the call to succeed.  This allows jail, kern.ps_showallprocs and
  regular credential-based interaction checks to occur in one block of
  code.  Possible operations are P_CAN_SEE, P_CAN_SCHED, P_CAN_KILL,
  and P_CAN_DEBUG.  p_can currently breaks out as a wrapper to a
  series of static function checks in kern_prot, which should not
  be invoked directly.

o Commented out capabilities entries are included for some checks.

o Update most inter-process authorization to make use of p_can() instead
  of manual checks, PRISON_CHECK(), P_TRESPASS(), and
  kern.ps_showallprocs.

o Modify suser{,_xxx} to use const arguments, as it no longer modifies
  process flags due to the disabling of ASU.

o Modify some checks/errors in procfs so that ENOENT is returned instead
  of ESRCH, further improving concealment of processes that should not
  be visible to other processes.  Also introduce new access checks to
  improve hiding of processes for procfs_lookup(), procfs_getattr(),
  procfs_readdir().  Correct a bug reported by bp concerning not
  handling the CREATE case in procfs_lookup().  Remove volatile flag in
  procfs that caused apparently spurious qualifier warnigns (approved by
  bde).

o Add comment noting that ktrace() has not been updated, as its access
  control checks are different from ptrace(), whereas they should
  probably be the same.  Further discussion should happen on this topic.

Reviewed by:	bde, green, phk, freebsd-security, others
Approved by:	bde
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2000-08-30 04:49:09 +00:00
Brian Feldman
6aef685fbb Remove any possibility of hiwat-related race conditions by changing
the chgsbsize() call to use a "subject" pointer (&sb.sb_hiwat) and
a u_long target to set it to.  The whole thing is splnet().

This fixes a problem that jdp has been able to provoke.
2000-08-29 11:28:06 +00:00
Paul Saab
03f808c55a Add a sysctl which hides all process except those that belong to
the user asking for the process list.

Reviewed by:	peter
2000-08-23 21:41:25 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
77978ab8bc Previous commit changing SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS violated KNF.
Pointed out by:	bde
2000-07-04 11:25:35 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
82d9ae4e32 Style police catches up with rev 1.26 of src/sys/sys/sysctl.h:
Sanitize SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS so that simplistic tools can grog our
sources:

        -sysctl_vm_zone SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS
        +sysctl_vm_zone (SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
2000-07-03 09:35:31 +00:00
Dima Ruban
1a432a2f54 Fix typo (inT -> int) 2000-06-23 07:10:34 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
c636255150 fix races in the uidinfo subsystem, several problems existed:
1) while allocating a uidinfo struct malloc is called with M_WAITOK,
   it's possible that while asleep another process by the same user
   could have woken up earlier and inserted an entry into the uid
   hash table.  Having redundant entries causes inconsistancies that
   we can't handle.

   fix: do a non-waiting malloc, and if that fails then do a blocking
   malloc, after waking up check that no one else has inserted an entry
   for us already.

2) Because many checks for sbsize were done as "test then set" in a non
   atomic manner it was possible to exceed the limits put up via races.

   fix: instead of querying the count then setting, we just attempt to
   set the count and leave it up to the function to return success or
   failure.

3) The uidinfo code was inlining and repeating, lookups and insertions
   and deletions needed to be in their own functions for clarity.

Reviewed by: green
2000-06-22 22:27:16 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
e39756439c Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by:		msmith and others
2000-05-26 02:09:24 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
740a1973a6 Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by:	phk
Reviewed by:	phk
Approved by:	mdodd
2000-05-23 20:41:01 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
9b6d9dba20 Also allow non-rot processes to setproctitle()
Submitted by:	Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
Approved by:	jkh
2000-02-08 19:54:15 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
a8704f8999 Add a sysctl to control if argv is disclosed to the world:
kern.ps_argsopen
It defaults to 1 which means that all users can see all argvs in ps(1).

Reviewed by:	Warner
1999-11-26 08:27:16 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
a9e0361b4a Introduce the new function
p_trespass(struct proc *p1, struct proc *p2)
which returns zero or an errno depending on the legality of p1 trespassing
on p2.

Replace kern_sig.c:CANSIGNAL() with call to p_trespass() and one
extra signal related check.

Replace procfs.h:CHECKIO() macros with calls to p_trespass().

Only show command lines to process which can trespass on the target
process.
1999-11-21 19:03:20 +00:00
Peter Wemm
e29e202c41 Add e_stats (p->p_stats, from struct user->u_stats) to eproc so it's
fetchable via sysctl.  This saves ps having to read the u-area for stats.
Be sure to recompile libkvm, ps, w, top and the usual suspects.
1999-11-17 12:49:22 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
b9df5231ca Introduce commandline caching in the kernel.
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.
1999-11-16 20:31:58 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
1b7277516b Commit the remaining part of PR14914:
Alot of the code in sys/kern directly accesses the *Q_HEAD and *Q_ENTRY
   structures for list operations.  This patch makes all list operations
   in sys/kern use the queue(3) macros, rather than directly accessing the
   *Q_{HEAD,ENTRY} structures.

Reviewed by:    phk
Submitted by:   Jake Burkholder <jake@checker.org>
PR:     14914
1999-11-16 16:28:58 +00:00
Brian Feldman
56f0bef78c Remove a KASSERT() that has fulfilled its purpose. Note that it did
cause problems by tripping on shutdown (reboot(), not the socket
operation :).  Cause is still uncertain, but the panic isn't really
necessary here.
1999-10-24 08:37:21 +00:00
Brian Feldman
ecf723083f Implement RLIMIT_SBSIZE in the kernel. This is a per-uid sockbuf total
usage limit.
1999-10-09 20:42:17 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Peter Wemm
f33a7ade5d Run queue heads have moved to TAILQ's. 1999-08-19 00:13:58 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
68f7448fd7 Reverse the sense of a test, dev2udev() will be much cheaper than
udev2dev().
1999-07-17 20:29:10 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6a0ce00218 Use NOUDEV for udev_t's 1999-05-17 13:50:24 +00:00
Doug Rabson
f40ddd55b0 Change the definition of e_tdev in struct kinfo_proc from dev_t to udev_t
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
1999-05-17 13:28:35 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
bfbb9ce670 Divorce "dev_t" from the "major|minor" bitmap, which is now called
udev_t in the kernel but still called dev_t in userland.

Provide functions to manipulate both types:
        major()         umajor()
        minor()         uminor()
        makedev()       umakedev()
        dev2udev()      udev2dev()

For now they're functions, they will become in-line functions
after one of the next two steps in this process.

Return major/minor/makedev to macro-hood for userland.

Register a name in cdevsw[] for the "filedescriptor" driver.

In the kernel the udev_t appears in places where we have the
major/minor number combination, (ie: a potential device: we
may not have the driver nor the device), like in inodes, vattr,
cdevsw registration and so on, whereas the dev_t appears where
we carry around a reference to a actual device.

In the future the cdevsw and the aliased-from vnode will be hung
directly from the dev_t, along with up to two softc pointers for
the device driver and a few houskeeping bits.  This will essentially
replace the current "alias" check code (same buck, bigger bang).

A little stunt has been provided to try to catch places where the
wrong type is being used (dev_t vs udev_t), if you see something
not working, #undef DEVT_FASCIST in kern/kern_conf.c and see if
it makes a difference.  If it does, please try to track it down
(many hands make light work) or at least try to reproduce it
as simply as possible, and describe how to do that.

Without DEVT_FASCIST I belive this patch is a no-op.

Stylistic/posixoid comments about the userland view of the <sys/*.h>
files welcome now, from userland they now contain the end result.

Next planned step: make all dev_t's refer to the same devsw[] which
means convert BLK's to CHR's at the perimeter of the vnodes and
other places where they enter the game (bootdev, mknod, sysctl).
1999-05-11 19:55:07 +00:00