preparation for 8.0-RELEASE. Add the previous version of those
libraries to ObsoleteFiles.inc and bump __FreeBSD_Version.
Reviewed by: kib
Approved by: re (rwatson)
- update for getrlimit(2) manpage;
- support for setting RLIMIT_SWAP in login class;
- addition to the limits(1) and sh and csh limit-setting builtins;
- tuning(7) documentation on the sysctls controlling overcommit.
In collaboration with: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)
The problem with fcntl(2) locks is that they are not inherited by child
processes. This breaks pidfile(3), where the common idiom is to open
and lock the PID file before daemonizing.
The entire world seems to use the non-standard TIOCSCTTY ioctl to make a
TTY a controlling terminal of a session. Even though tcsetsid(3) is also
non-standard, I think it's a lot better to use in our own source code,
mainly because it's similar to tcsetpgrp(), tcgetpgrp() and tcgetsid().
I stole the idea from QNX. They do it the other way around; their
TIOCSCTTY is just a wrapper around tcsetsid(). tcsetsid() then calls
into an IPC framework.
quotactl(2) interface and inactive quotas by accessing the quota
files directly.
Update the edquota program to use this new interface as proof of
concept.
parentheses.
Fixed alignment issue in gr_dup() in its assignment of gr_mem using a
struct to force alignment without performing alignment mathematics. This
was noticed recently with libutil was built with WARNS=6 on platform such
as sparc64.
Added checks to gr_dup(), gr_equal() and gr_make() to prevent segfaults
when examining struct group's with the struct members pointing to NULL's.
With fix of alignment issue, restore WARNS?=6.
Reviewed by: des
MFC after: 1 week
struct sockaddr * that it casts internally to the appropriate type based on
sa_family. However, struct sockaddr has very lax alignment requirements,
which causes the compiler to complain when you cast a struct sockaddr * to,
say, a struct sockaddr_in6 *.
I find it reasonable to assume that the pointer we received is in fact
correctly aligned. Therefore, we can work around the compiler warnings by
casting to void * before casting to the desired type. For readability's
sake, this is done with macros.
The same technique should prove useful in other parts of the tree that
deal with socket addresses.
MFC after: 3 weeks
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
