most of the open/close routines, and the buffer/cdb parsing routines
derived from the old scsi(3) library.
The cam_cdbparse(3) man page borrows from the old scsi(3) man page, so the
copyright and history section reflect that.
The many scsi_* functions and other functions that are pulled in from the
kernel aren't documented yet, but will be eventually.
execvp() in the child branch of a vfork(). Changed to use fork()
instead.
Some of these (mv, find, apply, xargs) might benefit greatly from
being rewritten to use vfork() properly.
PR: Loosely related to bin/8252
Approved by: jkh and bde
have the passthrough device configured in their kernel.
This will hopefully reduce the number of people complaining that they can't
get {camcontrol, xmcd, tosha, cdrecord, etc.} to work.
Reviewed by: gibbs
loaded systems by retrying the sysctl() with a larger buffer if it
fails with ENOMEM. For good measure, allocate 10% more memory than
sysctl() claims is necessary.
PR: 8275
Reviewed by: David Greenman <dg@freebsd.org>
This bug showed up when you had more than 3 devices displayed. (thus
requiring a second line of display)
Here's a quote From the PR:
When wrefresh() is called with a subwindow as argument, __set_subwin
might be called with reversed arguments if wrefresh() decides to calls
quickch(). This may cause use of negative array indexes, with a
resulting segfault.
Since quickch() manipulates the line structures belonging to curscr,
it looks like all subwindows of curscr should be updated.
PR: bin/8086
Submitted by: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>
- the directory was wrong if ${SHLIBDIR} != ${LIBDIR}. It's still wrong
if the installation of the obsolete library was done before /aout was
appended to LIBDIR.
- the version would have become wrong when the default in ../Makefile.inc
is changed from 2.0.
- the comment mostly described moving of libraries to /usr/lib/compat, but
we don't do that.
in the wrong places for a while.
Also, the the libtermlib.so -> libtermcap.so manually for elf, otherwise
the hard link follows the symlink and the result looks rather wierd. The
*.a files are still hard linked under elf as before.
have been linked against it. Try and clean up the leftovers. Also, put
the a.out libs in /usr/lib/compat/aout since that's where the default
a.out ldconfig compat path points to.
vfork() can't be used. We could use alloca() in execl() so that
it can be called between vfork() and execve(), but a "portable"
popen() shouldn't depend on this. Calling execle() instead of
execl() should be fairly safe, since execle() is supposed to be
callable from signal handlers and signal handlers can't call
malloc(). However, execle() is broken.
ever saw one), and move the description of NULL behaviour out to a
'NOTES' section, with an extra note that programs should not rely up
on it.
Kinda-approve-by: bde (by not replying to the mail with the diff)
make pthread_yield() more reliable,
threads always (I hope) preempted at least every 0.1 sec, as intended.
PR: bin/7744
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
shouldn't include other ones (which, unfortunately, is also a hellish
rule since he broke interfaces like sysctl this way by requiring undocumented
header files to be included just in order to be able to use them now - SIGH!).
I'll convert sysinstall to use shortly) and a simple call which uses
this mechanism to implement an /etc/auth.conf file. I'll let Mark Murray
handle the format and checkin of the sample auth.conf file.
Reviewed by: markm
PR: 7923
Submitted by: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
The scandir() function returns -1 if it fails.
In many cases when this happens, it does not free
the memory that it allocated, resulting in a memory
leak, or close the directory opened with opendir().
BAD DOG, BAD!
the thread kernel into a garbage collector thread which is started when
the fisrt thread is created (other than the initial thread). This
removes the window of opportunity where a context switch will cause a
thread that has locked the malloc spinlock, to enter the thread kernel,
find there is a dead thread and try to free memory, therefore trying
to lock the malloc spinlock against itself.
The garbage collector thread acts just like any other thread, so
instead of having a spinlock to control accesses to the dead thread
list, it uses a mutex and a condition variable so that it can happily
wait to be signalled when a thread exists.
