This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
When malloc fails. don't try to memset NULL pointer, it cause core dump
Replace malloc+memset with calloc, theoretically it can do some
optimization of zeroing process internally
Improve error diagnostic
dead kernel debugging. The previous code was a "do nothing".
The most obvious side effect of this is that you can now do things like
this and reasonably expect them to work:
dmesg -M /var/crash/vmcore.3 -N /var/crash/kernel.3
ps -axl -M /var/crash/vmcore.3 -N /var/crash/kernel.3
A good deal of this was lifted from the gdb code to do this, as well as
from NetBSD's libkvm (which has completely different VM macros)
the statically compiled PS_STRINGS and USRSTACK variables. This prevents
programs using setproctitle from coredumping if the kernel VM is increased,
and stops libkvm users (w, ps, etc) from needing to be recompiled if only
the VM layout changes.
static executables that depend on this will need to be relinked (ie: do
this before 'ps'), but the dynamic linked stuff should be OK (ie: 'w')
Obtained from: NetBSD (not much point reinventing the wheel.. :-)
in all other places here.
This is a hack, the interface should be changed to use off_t's
everywhere around, but this will require to update all the programs
that happen to use libkvm.
Given the right circumstances, a call to kvm_open can result in a core
dump.
The diff belows fixes this (note that this change is already in the
NetBSD code). Could somebody apply this?
Gary J.
Submitted by: gj
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!
_PATH_UNIX is currently defined as the literal string "don't use this".
I am of two minds about this myself, but wanted to get something into the
tree as quickly as possible.
