xlint is currently a fossil. We have much more useful and alive tools
to do now what xlint did twenty years ago.
I did not cleared some stuff which makes lint operational, in
sys/x86/include and sys/sys, but I might do it as followup. The
x86/include/ucontext.h and _types.h hacks made to please lint was the
main reason for my initial proposal to classify xlint as obsolete and
to remove it.
Also I do not intend to clear sccs ids.
Reviewed by: bapt, brooks, emaste, jhb, pfg
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13015
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
Failure modes of the modern (that is, produced in the last 25 years)
hard drives and SSDs made the utility outdated. Since the kernel
interface to support it was removed in r324853, cut the userspace
remnants as well.
Discussed with: bde (who does not like the removal)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Despite the fact that it's a working solution, it doesn't follow the design
philosophy of only doing TARGET_* in Makefile.inc1 and special locations in
the source tree.
PR: 222925
Requested by: imp
respected.
Please notice that libcasper is already in ObsoleteFiles so we don't add it
again.
Reported by: Herbert J. Skuhra <herbert@mailbox.org>
Reviewed by: bdrewery@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12918
mbpool existed to support NICs with memory interfaces and all remaining
comsumers were removed earlier this year with NATM.
Reviewed by: jhb
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10513
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 base, locales (and encoding) specific directories are not used
by any tool. Just remove them.
While here also remove the cat page directory for openssl
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
- Store the symbol table contents in an anonymous swap-backed object. Have
mmap(/dev/ksyms) map that object, and stop mapping the symbol table into
the calling process in ksyms_open(). Previously we would cache a pointer
to the pmap of the opening process, and mmap(/dev/ksyms) would create a
mapping using the physical address found by a pmap lookup at the initial
mapping address. However, this assumes that the cached pmap is valid,
which may not be the case. [1]
- Remove the ksyms ioctl interface. It appears to have been added to work
around a limitation in libelf that no longer exists; see r321842.
Moreover, the interface is difficult to support and isn't present in
illumos. Since ksyms was added specifically to support lockstat(1), it
is expected that this removal won't have any real impact.
- Simplify ksyms_read() to avoid unnecessary copying.
- Don't call the device handle destructor if we fail to capture a snapshot
of the kernel's symbol table. devfs will do that for us.
Reported by: Ilja van Sprundel <ivansprundel@ioactive.com> [1]
Reviewed by: kib (previous revision)
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11789
The tests are largely symmetric with the tests for chmod(1)--added in r319642.
Remove chown-f_test (added in r268030) since the test coverage is now being
provided by `chown_test`.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
All manpages in base are now compatible with mandoc(1), all roff documentation
will be relocated in the doc tree. man(1) can now use groff from the ports tree
if it needs.
Also remove checknr(1) and colcrt(1) which are only useful with groff.
Approved by: (no objections on the mailing lists)
The documentation moved to section 3 several years ago, but
'man cap_rights_get' pulls up cap_rights_limit(2) (which is
MLINKed to cap_rights_get.2) instead of cap_rights_get(3).
MFC after: 1 week
In FreeBSD we only use mdoc(7) format. A template is available as mdoc.template
The usage of man(7) format is discouraged and this file was driving people into
the front direction as a template to use.
roff documentation from the build.
Those documents will be added to the doc tree and distributed as PDF from
the documentation website. As they are valuable has history, but do not match
current FreeBSD
Further more, the ascii format we were using to distribute them is not really
accurate for such documents.
more details:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-May/018211.html