What it is:
A library for reading and writing various streaming archive
formats, especially tar and cpio. Being a library, it should
be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any
other place that needs to read or write such archives.
Features:
* Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format.
* Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats.
* Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format
that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats.
* BSD license
Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for
encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style
questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement.
Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and
the library could always use more testing. Feedback eagerly solicited.
overridden by the threads library to provide a userland version
of non-pshared semaphores and cancellation points. Also add
a sem_timedwait().
The libc version of semaphores always uses kernel semaphores
regardless of whether pshared is set or not. When threads are
not present, it is difficult to get sem_wait() or sem_timedwait()
to do the right thing (since pthread_cond_timedwait() and
pthread_cond_wait() are stubs in libc and just return immediately).
caller without closing the disk device and freeing allocated
memory. Not closing the disk device prevents GEOM from retasting
after spoiling.
Pointy hat: marcel
thread library for i386, amd64, and ia64. For alpha
and sparc64 the library is not changed and remains libkse,
and links are installed so that libpthread -> libc_r.
The gcc -pthread option will be changed in a separate
commit so that it links to -lpthread instead of -lc_r.
Approved by: re@
what do I get for my troubles? libc breaks offcourse!
Reimplement a hack (in libthr) that allows libc to use
rwlocks without initializing them first. The hack was reimplemented
so that only a private libc version of the rwlock locking functions
initializes an uninitialized rwlock. The application version will
correctly fail.
the system call got interrupted and the absolute timeout is
converted to a relative timeout, it may happen that we get a
negative number. In such a case, simply set the timeout to
zero so that if the event that the thread wants to wait for has
happened it can still return successfully, but if it hasn't
happened then the thread doesn't suspend indefinitely. This should
fix certain applications (including mozilla) that seem to hang
indefinitely sometimes.
Noticed and debugged by: Morten Johansen <root@morten-johansen.net>
return an error value that made Write_Disk() abort. While on the
subject, improve the initialization of the error variable in read_gpt()
and update_gpt() even though nothing was broken there.
and NgAllocRecvData(), that dynamically allocate buffer for a binary
message, an ascii message, and a data packet, respectively. The size
of the allocated buffer is equal to the socket's receive buffer size
to guarantee that a message or a data packet is not truncated.
- Get rid of the static size buffer in NgSendAsciiMsg().
OK'ed by: archie, julian
