This should be a bit useful for users who look at the manpage and
then try to copy data CD-ROM disks using dd. A lot of us know
that bs=2048 is required, but it still manages to cause a bit of
grief to those who haven't heard about it.
PR: bin/130857
Submitted by: Tri Brotoharsono < mail at tribrotoharsono.net >
MFC after: 3 days
rather than a voltag name, do not set the CESR_VOLTAGS flags in the
CHIOGSTATUS command requesting the current status. As voltags are an
optional feature that must be handled as "reserved" by media changers
not implementing the feature, always setting CESR_VOLTAGS resulted in
the command being aborted with an `Invalid field in CDB', and
consequently the "chio return" failed, for media changers that do not
support voltags.
MFC after: 1 week
in the system. A simple heuristics is used to detect what is "enough"
memory: if number of physmem pages is greater than 32k (equalling 128 MB
on machines with 4 kB pages).
Typical immediate result of these changes is reduction in context switches
and the goal is to increase efficiency by using large buffers:
before: /usr/bin/time -hlp cat file1 > file2
...
163 voluntary context switches
11194 involuntary context switches
after: /usr/bin/time -hlp ./cat file1 > file2
...
417 voluntary context switches
272 involuntary context switches
Reviewed by: hackers@ (no objections to earlier version of cat patch)
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
MFC after: 4 months
In my previous commit I disabled pkill(1)'s automatic prepending of the
"tty" string when `pkill -t' was being used. Re-enable it and stat()
both possible device names when called.
Requested by: jhb, rwatson (MFC)
MFC after: 1 month
Because we now enforce UNIX98-style PTY's, we now use a lot of TTY's
that don't have the traditional /dev/ttyXX naming scheme. pkill(1)'s -t
flag automatically prepended the word "tty" to each TTY that was passed
on the command line. This meant that `pkill -t pts/0' was actually
converted to /dev/ttypts/0. Disable this broken behaviour for now.
Reported by: erwin
Initially, 'acl' (an 'acl_t *') is allocated, and its ACCESS_ACL and
DEFAULT_ACL fields are passed to the 'libc' ACL routines for subsequent
allocation. If the '-m' option (merge existing ACL with a new one) is
specified, then 'set_acl_mask()' will be called and passed one of the
two ACLs. This function, in turn, replaces this given ACL structure by
another, freshly allocated. However, the pointer in the 'acl' variable
in the caller is not updated. The caller then proceeds to free the ACL,
incurring in a double free condition.
Submitted by: Pedro Martelletto <pedro at ambientworks.net>
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
for the convenience of rc.d. Now it has happily lived there for quite
a while. So move the pkill(1) source files from usr.bin to bin, too.
Approved by: gad
When I imported the MPSAFE TTY code, I added the -p flag to sh(1)'s
ulimit, but I forgot to document it in the appropriate manual page.
Requested by: stefanf
After the MPSAFE TTY import, we have support for the TAB0 and TAB3 flags
to handle tab expansion, while we only used to support OXTABS. Switch
stty(1) to use tab0 and tab3 to print whether tab expansion is turned on
or off. Implement the oxtabs and tabs switches by setting the
appropriate TABx value.
Even though POSIX only lists this as being XSI, we'd better follow it.
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
understand which code paths aren't possible.
This commit eliminates 117 false positive bug reports of the form
"allocate memory; error out if pointer is NULL; use pointer".
When I ported most applications away from <sgtty.h>, I noticed none of
them were actually using these definitions. I kept them in place,
because I didn't want to touch tools like pstat(8) and stty(1).
In preparation for the MPSAFE TTY layer, remove these definitions. This
doesn't have any impact with respect to binary compatibility (see
tty_conf.c).
We couldn now add an #error to <sys/ioctl_compat.h> when included
outside the kernel. Unfortunately, kdump's mkioctls includes this file
unconditionally.
Approved by: philip (mentor)
Cast string precision to `int'. amd64 systems warn about the
field precision being `long int' if we don't, and pathnames are
normally short enough to fit in an `int'.
Noticed by: pav
ln(1) checks to see if the source of a symlink, i.e. the file it
should point to actually exists. The default is the old ln
behavior, that does not check, to avoid surprising people who may
be using ln(1) in scripts or other non-interactive places.
PR: bin/7265
Submitted by: Joel Ray Holveck, detlev!joelh at mail.camalott.com
MFC after: 2 weeks
Portability Utilities" option.
Often configure scripts generated by the autotools test if $LINENO works and
refuse to use /bin/sh if not.
Package test run by: pav
to type int.
- Change the type used for arithmetic expansion to intmax_t (ie. 64 bit on all
currently supported FreeBSD architectures). SUSv3 requires at least type
long but allows for larger types. Other shells (eg. bash, zsh, NetBSD's sh)
do that too.
PR: 122659
Submitted by: Jaakko Heinonen (minor modifications by me)
are used to modify the arguments. Not doing so caused random memory reads or
null pointer dereferences when 'getopts' was called again later (SUSv3 says
getopts produces unspecified results in this case).
PR: 48318
- Allow realpath to accept multiple paths on the command line.
- Add -q to suppress warnings if some paths can't be processed, and use
getopt(3) to process flags.
- Print the path being requested rather than a possibly partially
processed path when a failure occurs so that you can tell which of
several passed paths did fail.
MFC after: 1 week
PR: 112920
Submitted by: Ighighi <ighighi@gmail.com>
- Add -v to print file names as they are processed; -vv prints the flags
change as well.
- Add -f to ignore failures with the same semantics as chflags(1), neither
printing an error nor affecting the return code.
- Don't try to set the flags if they won't change.
I made minor cosmetic tweaks to the code in the patch.
MFC after: 1 week
PR: 112827
Submitted by: Ighighi <ighighi at gmail.com>
