The information here is somewhere between ancient to obsolete.
It refers to a time in the internet's history when manual routing
was still useful, talks about UUCP as if its modern, and refers
to documents which I had trouble tracking down.
It seems unlikely that a manual page in this form would be useful, so
just remove it.
Reviewed By: imp, tsoome, bdrewery(?)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12924
When using a kernel built with the GZIO config option, dumpon -z can be
used to configure gzip compression using the in-kernel copy of zlib.
This is useful on systems with large amounts of RAM, which require a
correspondingly large dump device. Recovery of compressed dumps is also
faster since fewer bytes need to be copied from the dump device.
Because we have no way of knowing the final size of a compressed dump
until it is written, the kernel will always attempt to dump when
compression is configured, regardless of the dump device size. If the
dump is aborted because we run out of space, an error is reported on
the console.
savecore(8) is modified to handle compressed dumps and save them to
vmcore.<index>.gz, as it does when given the -z option.
A new rc.conf variable, dumpon_flags, is added. Its value is added to
the boot-time dumpon(8) invocation that occurs when a dump device is
configured in rc.conf.
Reviewed by: cem (earlier version)
Discussed with: def, rgrimes
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11723
files. This is a follow up commit to r324721, which added sysrc(8) to
the SEE ALSO list.
Submitted by: Kurt Jaeger (lists at opsec.eu)
MFC after: 1 week
This file shouldn't be modified manually but well, I did it in my previous
commit. So go down further the rabbit hole so as to at least keep some
consistency.
Reported by: bapt
If they are still needed, you can find them in the net/bsdrcmds port.
This was proposed June, 20th and approved by various committers [1].
They have been marked as deprecated on CURRENT in r320644 [2] on July, 4th.
Both stable/11 and release/11.1 contain the deprecation notice (thanks to
allanjude@).
Note that ruptime(1)/rwho(1)/rwhod(8) were initially thought to be part of
rcmds but this was a mistake and those are therefore NOT removed.
[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-June/018239.html
[2] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=320644
Reviewed by: bapt, brooks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12573
It was supposed to provide a recovery mechanism against bugs in procfs's
long deprecated tracing capabilities.
Remove the tool as a prerequisite to axing the kernel side.
The tracing facility to use is ptrace(2).
MFC after: 2 weeks
in favor of just rendering the manpage instead of relying on pre-formatted
catpages. Note, this does not impede the ability to use existing catpages,
it just removes the utility to generate them.
Reviewed by: imp, allanjude
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12317
Linux specific things to the native fdescfs file system.
Unlike FreeBSD, the Linux fdescfs is a directory containing a symbolic
links to the actual files, which the process has open.
A readlink(2) call on this file returns a full path in case of regular file
or a string in a special format (type:[inode], anon_inode:<file-type>, etc..).
As well as in a FreeBSD, opening the file in the Linux fdescfs directory is
equivalent to duplicating the corresponding file descriptor.
Here we have mutually exclusive requirements:
- in case of readlink(2) call fdescfs lookup() method should return VLNK
vnode otherwise our kern_readlink() fail with EINVAL error;
- in the other calls fdescfs lookup() method should return non VLNK vnode.
For what new vnode v_flag VV_READLINK was added, which is set if fdescfs has beed
mounted with linrdlnk option an modified kern_readlinkat() to properly handle it.
For now For Linux ABI compatibility mount fdescfs volume with linrdlnk option:
mount -t fdescfs -o linrdlnk null /compat/linux/dev/fd
Reviewed by: kib@
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
If ipfw_netflow_fib, the ipfw rule will only match packets in that FIB.
While here correct some value in rc.conf(5) to be int and not str.
Sponsored by: Gandi.net
Add a make.conf DTC variable that control which DTC (Device Tree Compiler)
to use.
Reviewed by: bdrewery, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9577
Extend the ino_t, dev_t, nlink_t types to 64-bit ints. Modify
struct dirent layout to add d_off, increase the size of d_fileno
to 64-bits, increase the size of d_namlen to 16-bits, and change
the required alignment. Increase struct statfs f_mntfromname[] and
f_mntonname[] array length MNAMELEN to 1024.
ABI breakage is mitigated by providing compatibility using versioned
symbols, ingenious use of the existing padding in structures, and
by employing other tricks. Unfortunately, not everything can be
fixed, especially outside the base system. For instance, third-party
APIs which pass struct stat around are broken in backward and
forward incompatible ways.
Kinfo sysctl MIBs ABI is changed in backward-compatible way, but
there is no general mechanism to handle other sysctl MIBS which
return structures where the layout has changed. It was considered
that the breakage is either in the management interfaces, where we
usually allow ABI slip, or is not important.
Struct xvnode changed layout, no compat shims are provided.
For struct xtty, dev_t tty device member was reduced to uint32_t.
It was decided that keeping ABI compat in this case is more useful
than reporting 64-bit dev_t, for the sake of pstat.
Update note: strictly follow the instructions in UPDATING. Build
and install the new kernel with COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option enabled,
then reboot, and only then install new world.
Credits: The 64-bit inode project, also known as ino64, started life
many years ago as a project by Gleb Kurtsou (gleb). Kirk McKusick
(mckusick) then picked up and updated the patch, and acted as a
flag-waver. Feedback, suggestions, and discussions were carried
by Ed Maste (emaste), John Baldwin (jhb), Jilles Tjoelker (jilles),
and Rick Macklem (rmacklem). Kris Moore (kris) performed an initial
ports investigation followed by an exp-run by Antoine Brodin (antoine).
Essential and all-embracing testing was done by Peter Holm (pho).
The heavy lifting of coordinating all these efforts and bringing the
project to completion were done by Konstantin Belousov (kib).
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation (emaste, kib)
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10439
The GNU extension bits in the base system are old, no longer faithful
to upstream, and surprising in some regards. Switch to documenting
WITH_GNU_GREP_COMPAT and default GNU_GREP_COMPAT to OFF in the name of
good behavior.
According to http://www.regular-expressions.info, GNU extensions:
- Add missing quantifiers to BREs: \?, \+
- Add branching to BREs: \|
- Add backreferences (\1 through \9) to EREs
- Add \w, \W, \s, and \S corresponding to :alnum:, [^[:alnum:]],
:space:, and [^[:space:]] respectively
- Add word boundaries and anchors:
\b: word boundary
\B: not word boundary
\<: Strt of word
\>: End of word
\`: Start of subject string
\': End of subject string
These extensions are still available in /usr/bin/grep by default today,
as it is still GNU grep. As part of the bsdgrep migration plan these
extensions may be added to bsdgrep's regex support if necessary.
Submitted by: Kyle Evans <kevans91 at ksu.edu>
Reviewed by: cem
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10114
Bugs have been found in the fastmatch implementation as used in bsdgrep.
Some have been fixed (r316495) while fixes for others are in review
(D10098).
In comparison with the fastmatch implementation, Kyle Evans found that:
- regex(3)'s performance with literal expressions offers a speed
improvement over fastmatch
- regex(3)'s performance, both with simple BREs and EREs, seems to be
comparable
The regex implementation was imported in r226035, and the commit message
reports:
This is a temporary solution until the whole regex library is
not replaced so that BSD grep development can continue and the
backported code gets some review and testing. This change only
improves scalability slightly, there is no big performance boost
yet but several minor bugs have been found and fixed.
Introduce a WITH_/WITHOUT_BSD_GREP_FASTMATCH knob to support testing
of both approaches.
PR: 175314, 194823
Submitted by: Kyle Evans <kevans91 at ksu.edu>
Reviewed by: bdrewery (in part)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10282
These have no effect (and WITHOUT_GNU is documented as having no
effect). I intend to later introduce a WITHOUT_GPL knob to serve a
similar purpose as WITHOUT_GNU's previously documented intent, but with
a more accurate name. To avoid confusion over the transition though just
remove the existing, nonfunctional ones.
Note that this commit also adds the default riscv settings for all
options since riscv was added to 'make targets' since the last time
this was generated.
Reminded by: emaste
Multiple periodic scripts sleep for a random amount of time in order to
mitigate the thundering herd problem. This is bad, because the sum of
multiple uniformly distributed random variables approaches a normal
distribution, so the problem isn't mitigated as effectively as it would be
with a single sleep.
This change creates a single configurable anticongestion sleep. periodic
will only sleep if at least one script requires it, and it will never sleep
more than once per invocation. It also won't sleep if periodic was run
interactively, fixing an unrelated longstanding bug.
PR: 217055
PR: 210188
Reviewed by: cy
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10211
Describe (briefly) how to compile the filesystem into the kernel and
load as a module.
Reference cd9660(5) in mount(8) and mount_cd9660(8).
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
- Delete trailing whitespace
- Sort SEE ALSO order: mmap(2)'s Xr should come before nmount(2)'s Xr.
MFC after: 1 week
Reported by: make manlint
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
man(1) has some logic to use two spaces after a full stop, which is
useful for spotting sentence breaks in monospace fonts. However,
this logic is very simple, treating almost all '.' characters as
end-of-sentence markers, unless followed by certain other
characters. For example, '.,' is not end-of-sentence, and neither
is ".) ", but ".)" at the end of a line triggers the sentence-end
detection.
Apply a zero-width space to a few instances of this in share/man,
and also supply a missing full stop for an instance that occurred at
the end of a sentence.
Leave untouched several instances that are at the end of a sentence
or list element.
Reported by: 0mp (ieee80211.9)
This interface has no in-tree consumers and has been more or less
non-functional for several releases.
Remove manpage note that the procfs special file 'mem' is grouped to
kmem. This hasn't been true since r81107.
Remove procfs' README file. It is an out of date duplication of the manpage
(quoth the README: "since the bsd kernel is single-processor...").
Reviewed by: vangyzen, bcr (manpage)
Approved by: des (procfs maintainer), vangyzen (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9802
Note that makeman's use of 'make showconfig' interacts poorly with
the COMPILER_FEATURES test in share/mk/src.opts.mk, because it tests the
host compiler, not the bootstrap compiler that will actually be used to
build world. This causes it to report that Clang is enabled by default
on MIPS and PowerPC.
For example:
% make TARGET_ARCH=mips64 showconfig | grep CLANG
MK_CLANG = yes
MK_CLANG_BOOTSTRAP = no
MK_CLANG_EXTRAS = no
MK_CLANG_FULL = yes
MK_CLANG_IS_CC = no
I am committing this version anyway to avoid extraneous diffs in
src.conf.5 after every other WITH_/WITHOUT_FOO change.
In addition, we intend to switch to a C++11 compiler for all archs for
12.0 (either by fixing Clang for those archs, or by requiring an
external toolchain), and then src.conf.5 will be correct.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
