When booting the system, truncate the utx.active file, but do write the
BOOT_TIME record into it afterwards. This allows one to obtain the boot
time of the system as follows:
struct utmpx u1 = { .ut_type = BOOT_TIME }, *u2;
setutxent();
u2 = getutxid(&u1);
Now, the boot time is stored in u2->ut_tv, just like on Linux and other
systems.
We don't open the utx.active file with O_EXLOCK. It's rather unlikely
that other applications use this database at the same time and I want to
prevent the possibility of deadlocks in init(8).
Discussed with: pluknet
working MI one. The MI one only needs to be overridden on machines
with non-IEEE754 arithmetic. (The last supported one was the VAX.)
It can also be overridden if someone comes up with a faster one that
actually passes the regression tests -- but this is harder than it sounds.
Even though POSIX allows us to return simply /dev/tty as a pathname
identifying the controlling terminal of the running process, it is nicer
if this function were actually useful, by returning the actual pathname
of the controlling terminal.
Implement ctermid() by using the kern.devname sysctl to resolve the
actual name of /dev/tty. Don't use devname(3), since it may return bogus
strings like #C:0x123.
As of FreeBSD 6, devices can only be opened through devfs. These device
nodes don't have major and minor numbers anymore. The st_rdev field in
struct stat is simply based a copy of st_ino.
Simply display device numbers as hexadecimal, using "%#jx". This is
allowed by POSIX, since it explicitly states things like the following
(example taken from ls(1)):
"If the file is a character special or block special file, the
size of the file may be replaced with implementation-defined
information associated with the device in question."
This makes the output of these commands more compact. For example, ls(1)
now uses approximately four columns less. While there, simplify the
column length calculation from ls(1) by calling snprintf() with a NULL
buffer.
Don't be afraid; if needed one can still obtain individual major/minor
numbers using stat(1).
conversion, conversion must fail and errno must be set to E2BIG.
PR: standards/160673
Submitted by: Henning Petersen <henning.petersen@t-online.de>
Reviewed by: pluknet
Approved by: re (kib), delphij (mentor)
A "process descriptor" file descriptor is used to manage processes
without using the PID namespace. This is required for Capsicum's
Capability Mode, where the PID namespace is unavailable.
New system calls pdfork(2) and pdkill(2) offer the functional equivalents
of fork(2) and kill(2). pdgetpid(2) allows querying the PID of the remote
process for debugging purposes. The currently-unimplemented pdwait(2) will,
in the future, allow querying rusage/exit status. In the interim, poll(2)
may be used to check (and wait for) process termination.
When a process is referenced by a process descriptor, it does not issue
SIGCHLD to the parent, making it suitable for use in libraries---a common
scenario when using library compartmentalisation from within large
applications (such as web browsers). Some observers may note a similarity
to Mach task ports; process descriptors provide a subset of this behaviour,
but in a UNIX style.
This feature is enabled by "options PROCDESC", but as with several other
Capsicum kernel features, is not enabled by default in GENERIC 9.0.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
* Decouple the path supervision using a separate HB timer per path.
* Add support for potentially failed state.
* Bring back RTO.min to 1 second.
* Accept packets on IP-addresses already announced via an ASCONF
* While there: do some cleanups.
Approved by: re@
MFC after: 2 months.
These system calls have already been implemented in the kernel; now we
hook up libc symbols so userspace can drive them.
Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
-g, by reverting r219139. The LLVM PR referenced in that revision was
fixed in the mean time, and we imported a clang snapshot soon
afterwards, so the temporary workaround of disabling clang's integrated
assembler is no longer needed.
In this particular case, using e.g. DEBUG_FLAGS=-g causes clang to
output certain directives into assembly that our version of GNU as
chokes on.
Reported by: dougb
Approved by: re (kib)
Formerly, in this case an error was returned but the pid was also returned
to the application, requiring the application to use unspecified behaviour
(the returned pid in error situations) to avoid zombies.
Now, reap the zombie and do not return the pid.
MFC after: 2 weeks
As noted in Austin Group issue #370 (an interpretation has been issued),
failing posix_spawn() because an fd specified with
posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose() is not open is unnecessarily harsh, and
there are existing implementations that do not fail posix_spawn() for this
reason.
Reviewed by: ed
MFC after: 10 days
