Details:
- The main thread runs editline(3) functions, that can block.
- A separate thread is launched to monitor netgraph sockets.
- The access to the descriptors is protected by a mutex. At
runtime the monitoring thread owns the mutex. When the main
thread reads a command from el_gets() it asks the monitoring
thread to release a mutex and sleep until the main thread
processes the command.
This makes ngctl(8) depend on libedit, and libpthread. Thus, the
new functionality isn't compiled in if release is being built
with -DRELEASE_CRUNCH.
PR: bin/87352
Reviewed by: ru, Nuno Antunes <nuno.antunes gmail.com>
very useful .dot files of your netgraph(4) to quickly visualize the
nodes, hooks and edges. An example of this can be found here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~green/sample-netgraph-dot.ps
If anyone would like to refine the output further, please do so.
Somebody submitted this long time ago, and it has been sitting in my
tree for months because I thought archie would pick it up.
Submitted by: (sorry, lost track)
NGM_BINARY2ASCII, which convert control messages to ASCII and back.
This allows control messages to be sent and received in ASCII form
using ngctl(8), which makes ngctl a lot more useful.
This also allows all the type-specific debugging code in libnetgraph
to go away -- instead, we just ask the node itself to do the ASCII
translation for us.
Currently, all generic control messages are supported, as well as
messages associated with the following node types: async, cisco,
ksocket, and ppp.
See /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ngctl for an example of using this.
Also give ngctl(8) the ability to print out incoming data and
control messages at any time. Eventually nghook(8) may be subsumed.
Several other misc. bug fixes.
Reviewed by: julian
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.
Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from: Whistle CVS tree
