As discussed on the commits list, there is no need to call revoke()
inside openpty(). On RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 unlockpt() will call
revoke(). On HEAD we create pseudo-terminals on demand, so there is no
need to revoke the slave device node.
This change should never be MFC'd, because the implementation we have in
RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 should work flawlessly with older versions of
libc.
Discussed with: jhb
MFC after: never
- Pass O_NOCTTY to posix_openpt(2). This makes the implementation work
consistently on implementations that make the PTY the controlling TTY
by default.
- Call unlockpt() before opening the slave device. POSIX mentions that
de slave device should only be opened after grantpt() and unlockpt()
have been called.
- Replace some redundant code by a label.
In theory we could remove a lot of code from openpty() on FreeBSD
-CURRENT, because grantpt(), unlockpt() and revoke() are not needed in
our implementation. We'd better keep them there. This makes the code
still work with older FreeBSD releases and even makes it work on other
non-BSD operating systems.
I've compiled openpty() on Linux. You only need to remove the revoke()
call, because revoke() on Linux always returns -1. Apart from that, it
seems to work like it should.
Reviewed by: jhb
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
after similar calls related to struct pwd in libutil/pw_util.c:
- gr_equal()
Perform a deep comparison of two struct grp's. It does a thorough, yet
unoptimized comparison of all the members regardless of order.
- gr_make()
Create a string (see group(5)) from a struct grp.
- gr_dup()
Duplicate a struct grp. Returns a value that is a single contiguous
block of memory.
- gr_scan()
Create a struct grp from a string (as produced by gr_make()).
MFC after: 3 weeks
Significant changes:
- rev. 1.11: Use PRId64 instead of a cast to long long and %lld to print
an int64_t.
- rev. 1.12: Fix a bug that humanize_number() produces "1000" where it
should be "1.0G" or "1.0M". The bug reported by Greg Troxel.
PR: 118461
PR: 102694
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 1 month
Specifically, remove the BUGS section and note that openpty(3) now always
does the various security-related steps. Also, update the error return
value section. The PR below is for the original bug rather than the doc
updates.
MFC after: 1 week
PR: bin/9770
kick off any other users on the device line before using it since
openpty(3) is documented to do this. Note that grantpt(3) does not
call revoke(2), it only adjusts permissions and ownership.
MFC after: 3 days
success and zero pid from pidfile_read(). Return EAGAIN instead. Sleep
up to three times for 5 ms while waiting for pidfile to be written.
mount(8) does the kill(mountpid, SIGHUP). If mountd pidfile is truncated,
that would result in the SIGHUP delivered to the mount' process group
instead of the mountd.
Found and analyzed by: Peter Holm
Tested by: Peter Holm, kris
Reviewed by: pjd
MFC after: 1 week
Reported by: phk
- While here, check the unit before calculating the actually number.
This way we can return EINVAL for invalid unit instead of ERANGE.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
a number in human-readable form is converted to int64_t, for example:
123b -> 123
10k -> 10240
16G -> 17179869184
First version submitted by: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>
Approved by: re (bmah)
