From f97a7ce4a491b6a684923ebc8885cee0ac492e14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:03:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: adduser(8)/rmuser(8) and the Great Perl Rewrite, dump(8) -L. Modified release notes: DEVICE_POLLING for nge(4) [1], clarification of some UFS2 items, Perl distribution in sysinstall. Submitted by: Hiten Pandya [1] Approved by: re (implicitly) --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 26 ++++++++++++++----- .../en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 26 ++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 5d82a5213687..6cef4a4c61b9 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended kern.polling.user_frac sysctl indicating the percentage of CPU time to be reserved for userland. The devices initially supporting polling are &man.dc.4;, - &man.fxp.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in + &man.fxp.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in the &man.polling.4; manual page. &merged; The packet-forwarding performance of certain @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended command can be used to mount these disks. Basic support has been added for the UFS2 filesystem. - Among its features: + Among the new features of UFS2: @@ -1593,7 +1593,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended - + UFS1 remains the default on-disk format, although UFS2 can be + selected as an option in &man.newfs.8; or via the partitioning + screen in &man.sysinstall.8;. 64-bit platforms can boot from + UFS2 root filesystems. @@ -2245,6 +2248,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended Support for creating &man.a.out.5; format executables with the base system compiler toolchain has been removed. + &man.adduser.8; and &man.rmuser.8; are now &man.sh.1; + scripts, rather than Perl scripts. + If the first argument to &man.ancontrol.8; or &man.wicontrol.8; doesn't start with a -, it is assumed to be an interface. &merged; @@ -2466,6 +2472,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended &man.dump.8; now supports inheritance of the nodump flag down a hierarchy. &merged; + &man.dump.8; now supports a flag for + dumping live UFS and UFS2 filesystems safely. To obtain a + consistent dump image, &man.dump.8; takes a snapshot of the + filesystem and performs the dump on the snapshot. The snapshot + is removed when the dump is complete. + The option to &man.dump.8; no longer swallows an extra argument. &merged; @@ -3948,7 +3960,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended Perl has been removed from the &os; base system. It can still be installed from the &os; - Ports Collection or as a binary package; moving it out of the + Ports Collection, as a binary package, or via the Perl + distribution item in &man.sysinstall.8;'s + distribution menu. + Moving Perl out of the base system will make future upgrades and maintenence easier. To reduce the dependence of the base system on Perl, many utilities have been @@ -3956,8 +3971,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended made for each affected utility). - The Perl removal and - package integration work is ongoing. + The Perl script removal work is ongoing. diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 5d82a5213687..6cef4a4c61b9 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended kern.polling.user_frac sysctl indicating the percentage of CPU time to be reserved for userland. The devices initially supporting polling are &man.dc.4;, - &man.fxp.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in + &man.fxp.4;, &man.nge.4;, &man.rl.4;, and &man.sis.4;. More details can be found in the &man.polling.4; manual page. &merged; The packet-forwarding performance of certain @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended command can be used to mount these disks. Basic support has been added for the UFS2 filesystem. - Among its features: + Among the new features of UFS2: @@ -1593,7 +1593,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended - + UFS1 remains the default on-disk format, although UFS2 can be + selected as an option in &man.newfs.8; or via the partitioning + screen in &man.sysinstall.8;. 64-bit platforms can boot from + UFS2 root filesystems. @@ -2245,6 +2248,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended Support for creating &man.a.out.5; format executables with the base system compiler toolchain has been removed. + &man.adduser.8; and &man.rmuser.8; are now &man.sh.1; + scripts, rather than Perl scripts. + If the first argument to &man.ancontrol.8; or &man.wicontrol.8; doesn't start with a -, it is assumed to be an interface. &merged; @@ -2466,6 +2472,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended &man.dump.8; now supports inheritance of the nodump flag down a hierarchy. &merged; + &man.dump.8; now supports a flag for + dumping live UFS and UFS2 filesystems safely. To obtain a + consistent dump image, &man.dump.8; takes a snapshot of the + filesystem and performs the dump on the snapshot. The snapshot + is removed when the dump is complete. + The option to &man.dump.8; no longer swallows an extra argument. &merged; @@ -3948,7 +3960,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended Perl has been removed from the &os; base system. It can still be installed from the &os; - Ports Collection or as a binary package; moving it out of the + Ports Collection, as a binary package, or via the Perl + distribution item in &man.sysinstall.8;'s + distribution menu. + Moving Perl out of the base system will make future upgrades and maintenence easier. To reduce the dependence of the base system on Perl, many utilities have been @@ -3956,8 +3971,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended made for each affected utility). - The Perl removal and - package integration work is ongoing. + The Perl script removal work is ongoing.