option for installing distributions and/or packages to somewhere other than /,
say for a case where you're installing to an external disk on some other
machine's behalf. More miscellaneous fixes to various problems I stumbled
across while adding this stuff.
it with the CIRCLEQ macros. This simplifies the code a little, makes
it somewhat easier to read, and may be a little faster. (Actually I think
the performace is about the same.)
Also, in the non DB_CACHE case, save copies of data returned from
the database library in a static buffer, just in case we decide to use
it after the database has been closed. Technically, the memory that the
data pointers refer to belongs to the DB package and we can't count on
it being there after the database has been closed -- the DB package
frees its buffers. (With DB_CACHE #defined the databases are held
open so the buffers remain valid.) I don't think any of the utilities
that use the dblookup module have had any problems with this yet, but
there's no sense in taking any chances.
Add a few strategic screen clears.
Do a lot less wasted screen I/O in restoring screen contents that don't need
restoring.
Use tar instead of cp to back up /etc in installUpdate.
Don't panic when upgrade shell exits.
of delta's to be mailed out every hour (or however often you schedule
the cron job).
ctm_dequeue is the cron job which takes the stuff from the
queue directory and punts it into sendmail. The chunks of
the deltas (and the complete deltas if they are that small)
are sorted into order before being dispatched, so the people
subscribing should still get the bits in the right order.
The changes to ctm_smail should be fairly safe as they won't be
activated unless you go for the new queue directory option.
option to pwd_mkdb and adding this option to utilities invoking it.
Further, the filling of both the secure and insecure databases has been
merged into one loop giving also a performance improvemnet.
Note that I did *not* change the adduser command. I don't read perl
(it is a write only language anyway).
The change will drastically improve performance for passwd and
friends with large passwd files. Vipw's performance won't change.
In order to do that some kind of diff should be made between the
old and new master.passwd and depending the amount of changes, an
incremental or complete update of the databases should be agreed
upon.
via an ioctl (MOUSE_ACTION).
Fixed a couple of bugs (destructive cursor, uncut, jitter).
Now applications can use the mouse via the MOUSE_MODE ioctl, its
possible to have a signal sent on mouseevents, makeing an event loop
in the application take over mouseevents.
