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Eitan Adler
847d0034e3 Return EBADF instead of EMFILE from dup2 when the second argument is
outside the range of valid file descriptors

PR:		kern/164970
Submitted by:	Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Reviewed by:	jilles
Approved by:	cperciva
MFC after:	1 week
2012-04-11 14:08:09 +00:00
John Baldwin
e506e182dd Export some more useful info about shared memory objects to userland
via procstat(1) and fstat(1):
- Change shm file descriptors to track the pathname they are associated
  with and add a shm_path() method to copy the path out to a caller-supplied
  buffer.
- Use the fo_stat() method of shared memory objects and shm_path() to
  export the path, mode, and size of a shared memory object via
  struct kinfo_file.
- Add a struct shmstat to the libprocstat(3) interface along with a
  procstat_get_shm_info() to export the mode and size of a shared memory
  object.
- Change procstat to always print out the path for a given object if it
  is valid.
- Teach fstat about shared memory objects and to display their path,
  mode, and size.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-04-01 18:22:48 +00:00
Peter Holm
ffae9d4d7c Free up allocated memory used by posix_fadvise(2). 2012-03-08 20:34:13 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
0e31b3c15f Reformat comment to be more readable in standard Xterm.
(while I'm here, wrap other long lines)
2011-11-15 01:48:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
dccc45e4c0 Move the cleanup of f_cdevpriv when the reference count of a devfs
file descriptor drops to zero out of _fdrop() and into devfs_close_f()
as it is only relevant for devfs file descriptors.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	1 week
2011-11-04 03:39:31 +00:00
Robert Watson
b160c14194 Correct a bug in export of capability-related information from the sysctls
supporting procstat -f: properly provide capability rights information to
userspace.  The bug resulted from a merge-o during upstreaming (or rather,
a failure to properly merge FreeBSD-side changed downstream).

Spotted by:     des, kibab
MFC after:      3 days
2011-10-12 12:08:03 +00:00
Kip Macy
8451d0dd78 In order to maximize the re-usability of kernel code in user space this
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.

Reviewed by:	rwatson
Approved by:	re (bz)
2011-09-16 13:58:51 +00:00
Jonathan Anderson
cfb5f76865 Add experimental support for process descriptors
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
2011-08-18 22:51:30 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
9c00bb9190 Add the fo_chown and fo_chmod methods to struct fileops and use them
to implement fchown(2) and fchmod(2) support for several file types
that previously lacked it. Add MAC entries for chown/chmod done on
posix shared memory and (old) in-kernel posix semaphores.

Based on the submission by:	glebius
Reviewed by:	rwatson
Approved by:	re (bz)
2011-08-16 20:07:47 +00:00
Jonathan Anderson
69d377fe1b Allow Capsicum capabilities to delegate constrained
access to file system subtrees to sandboxed processes.

- Use of absolute paths and '..' are limited in capability mode.
- Use of absolute paths and '..' are limited when looking up relative
  to a capability.
- When a name lookup is performed, identify what operation is to be
  performed (such as CAP_MKDIR) as well as check for CAP_LOOKUP.

With these constraints, openat() and friends are now safe in capability
mode, and can then be used by code such as the capability-mode runtime
linker.

Approved by: re (bz), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
2011-08-13 09:21:16 +00:00
Robert Watson
a9d2f8d84f Second-to-last commit implementing Capsicum capabilities in the FreeBSD
kernel for FreeBSD 9.0:

Add a new capability mask argument to fget(9) and friends, allowing system
call code to declare what capabilities are required when an integer file
descriptor is converted into an in-kernel struct file *.  With options
CAPABILITIES compiled into the kernel, this enforces capability
protection; without, this change is effectively a no-op.

Some cases require special handling, such as mmap(2), which must preserve
information about the maximum rights at the time of mapping in the memory
map so that they can later be enforced in mprotect(2) -- this is done by
narrowing the rights in the existing max_protection field used for similar
purposes with file permissions.

In namei(9), we assert that the code is not reached from within capability
mode, as we're not yet ready to enforce namespace capabilities there.
This will follow in a later commit.

Update two capability names: CAP_EVENT and CAP_KEVENT become
CAP_POST_KEVENT and CAP_POLL_KEVENT to more accurately indicate what they
represent.

Approved by:	re (bz)
Submitted by:	jonathan
Sponsored by:	Google Inc
2011-08-11 12:30:23 +00:00
Jonathan Anderson
c30b9b5169 Export capability information via sysctls.
When reporting on a capability, flag the fact that it is a capability,
but also unwrap to report all of the usual information about the
underlying file.

Approved by: re (kib), mentor (rwatson)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
2011-07-20 09:53:35 +00:00
Jonathan Anderson
745bae379d Add implementation for capabilities.
Code to actually implement Capsicum capabilities, including fileops and
kern_capwrap(), which creates a capability to wrap an existing file
descriptor.

We also modify kern_close() and closef() to handle capabilities.

Finally, remove cap_filelist from struct capability, since we don't
actually need it.

Approved by: mentor (rwatson), re (Capsicum blanket)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
2011-07-15 09:37:14 +00:00
Jonathan Anderson
5604e481b1 Fix the "passability" test in fdcopy().
Rather than checking to see if a descriptor is a kqueue, check to see if
its fileops flags include DFLAG_PASSABLE.

At the moment, these two tests are equivalent, but this will change with
the addition of capabilities that wrap kqueues but are themselves of type
DTYPE_CAPABILITY. We already have the DFLAG_PASSABLE abstraction, so let's
use it.

This change has been tested with [the newly improved] tools/regression/kqueue.

Approved by: mentor (rwatson), re (Capsicum blanket)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
2011-07-08 12:19:25 +00:00
Edward Tomasz Napierala
afcc55f318 All the racct_*() calls need to happen with the proc locked. Fixing this
won't happen before 9.0.  This commit adds "#ifdef RACCT" around all the
"PROC_LOCK(p); racct_whatever(p, ...); PROC_UNLOCK(p)" instances, in order
to avoid useless locking/unlocking in kernels built without "options RACCT".
2011-07-06 20:06:44 +00:00
Jonathan Anderson
9acdfe6549 Rework _fget to accept capability parameters.
This new version of _fget() requires new parameters:
- cap_rights_t needrights
    the rights that we expect the capability's rights mask to include
    (e.g. CAP_READ if we are going to read from the file)

- cap_rights_t *haverights
    used to return the capability's rights mask (ignored if NULL)

- u_char *maxprotp
    the maximum mmap() rights (e.g. VM_PROT_READ) that can be permitted
    (only used if we are going to mmap the file; ignored if NULL)

- int fget_flags
    FGET_GETCAP if we want to return the capability itself, rather than
    the underlying object which it wraps

Approved by: mentor (rwatson), re (Capsicum blanket)
Sponsored by: Google Inc
2011-07-05 13:45:10 +00:00
Jonathan Anderson
c0467b5e6e When Capsicum starts creating capabilities to wrap existing file
descriptors, we will want to allocate a new descriptor without installing
it in the FD array.

Split falloc() into falloc_noinstall() and finstall(), and rewrite
falloc() to call them with appropriate atomicity.

Approved by: mentor (rwatson), re (bz)
2011-06-30 15:22:49 +00:00
Stanislav Sedov
ff6f41a472 - Do no try to drop a NULL filedesc pointer. 2011-05-12 10:56:33 +00:00
Stanislav Sedov
0daf62d9f5 - Commit work from libprocstat project. These patches add support for runtime
file and processes information retrieval from the running kernel via sysctl
  in the form of new library, libprocstat.  The library also supports KVM backend
  for analyzing memory crash dumps.  Both procstat(1) and fstat(1) utilities have
  been modified to take advantage of the library (as the bonus point the fstat(1)
  utility no longer need superuser privileges to operate), and the procstat(1)
  utility is now able to display information from memory dumps as well.

  The newly introduced fuser(1) utility also uses this library and able to operate
  via sysctl and kvm backends.

  The library is by no means complete (e.g. KVM backend is missing vnode name
  resolution routines, and there're no manpages for the library itself) so I
  plan to improve it further.  I'm commiting it so it will get wider exposure
  and review.

  We won't be able to MFC this work as it relies on changes in HEAD, which
  was introduced some time ago, that break kernel ABI.  OTOH we may be able
  to merge the library with KVM backend if we really need it there.

Discussed with:	rwatson
2011-05-12 10:11:39 +00:00
Edward Tomasz Napierala
722581d9e6 Add RACCT_NOFILE accounting.
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by:	kib (earlier version)
2011-04-06 19:13:04 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
1fe80828e7 After the r219999 is merged to stable/8, rename fallocf(9) to falloc(9)
and remove the falloc() version that lacks flag argument. This is done
to reduce the KPI bloat.

Requested by:	jhb
X-MFC-note:	do not
2011-04-01 13:28:34 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
246d35ec91 Add O_CLOEXEC flag to open(2) and fhopen(2).
The new function fallocf(9), that is renamed falloc(9) with added
flag argument, is provided to facilitate the merge to stable branch.

Reviewed by:	jhb
MFC after:	1 week
2011-03-25 14:00:36 +00:00
John Baldwin
8e6fa660f2 Fix some locking nits with the p_state field of struct proc:
- Hold the proc lock while changing the state from PRS_NEW to PRS_NORMAL
  in fork to honor the locking requirements.  While here, expand the scope
  of the PROC_LOCK() on the new process (p2) to avoid some LORs.  Previously
  the code was locking the new child process (p2) after it had locked the
  parent process (p1).  However, when locking two processes, the safe order
  is to lock the child first, then the parent.
- Fix various places that were checking p_state against PRS_NEW without
  having the process locked to use PROC_LOCK().  Every place was already
  locking the process, just after the PRS_NEW check.
- Remove or reduce the use of PROC_SLOCK() for places that were checking
  p_state against PRS_NEW.  The PROC_LOCK() alone is sufficient for reading
  the current state.
- Reorder fill_kinfo_proc() slightly so it only acquires PROC_SLOCK() once.

MFC after:	1 week
2011-03-24 18:40:11 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
1fb51a12f2 Mfp4 CH=177274,177280,177284-177285,177297,177324-177325
VNET socket push back:
  try to minimize the number of places where we have to switch vnets
  and narrow down the time we stay switched.  Add assertions to the
  socket code to catch possibly unset vnets as seen in r204147.

  While this reduces the number of vnet recursion in some places like
  NFS, POSIX local sockets and some netgraph, .. recursions are
  impossible to fix.

  The current expectations are documented at the beginning of
  uipc_socket.c along with the other information there.

  Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
  Sponsored by: CK Software GmbH
  Reviewed by:  jhb
  Tested by:    zec

Tested by:	Mikolaj Golub (to.my.trociny gmail.com)
MFC after:	2 weeks
2011-02-16 21:29:13 +00:00
Jilles Tjoelker
90750179ec Do not trip a KASSERT if /dev/null cannot be opened for a setuid program.
The fdcheckstd() function makes sure fds 0, 1 and 2 are open by opening
/dev/null. If this fails (e.g. missing devfs or wrong permissions),
fdcheckstd() will return failure and the process will exit as if it received
SIGABRT. The KASSERT is only to check that kern_open() returns the expected
fd, given that it succeeded.

Tripping the KASSERT is most likely if fd 0 is open but fd 1 or 2 are not.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2011-01-28 15:29:35 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
23b70c1ae2 Finish r210923, 210926. Mark some devices as eternal.
MFC after:	2 weeks
2011-01-04 10:59:38 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
2f826fdf53 Remove one zero from the double-0.
This code doesn't have a license to kill.

MFC after:	3 days
2010-04-23 14:32:58 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
080136212f On the return path from F_RDAHEAD and F_READAHEAD fcntls, do not
unlock Giant twice.

While there, bring conditions in the do/while loops closer to style,
that also makes the lines fit into 80 columns.

Reported and tested by:	dougb
2009-11-20 22:22:53 +00:00
Xin LI
82aebf697c Add two new fcntls to enable/disable read-ahead:
- F_READAHEAD: specify the amount for sequential access.  The amount is
   specified in bytes and is rounded up to nearest block size.
 - F_RDAHEAD: Darwin compatible version that use 128KB as the sequential
   access size.

A third argument of zero disables the read-ahead behavior.

Please note that the read-ahead amount is also constrainted by sysctl
variable, vfs.read_max, which may need to be raised in order to better
utilize this feature.

Thanks Igor Sysoev for proposing the feature and submitting the original
version, and kib@ for his valuable comments.

Submitted by:	Igor Sysoev <is rambler-co ru>
Reviewed by:	kib@
MFC after:	1 month
2009-09-28 16:59:47 +00:00
Robert Watson
14961ba789 Replace AUDIT_ARG() with variable argument macros with a set more more
specific macros for each audit argument type.  This makes it easier to
follow call-graphs, especially for automated analysis tools (such as
fxr).

In MFC, we should leave the existing AUDIT_ARG() macros as they may be
used by third-party kernel modules.

Suggested by:	brooks
Approved by:	re (kib)
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
MFC after:	1 week
2009-06-27 13:58:44 +00:00
Ulf Lilleengen
2dd43ecaec - Similar to the previous commit, but for CURRENT: Fix a bug where a FIFO vnode
use count was increased twice, but only decreased once.
2009-06-24 18:44:38 +00:00
Ulf Lilleengen
7083246d7c - Fix a bug where a FIFO vnode use count was increased twice, but only
decreased once.

MFC after:	1 week
2009-06-24 18:38:51 +00:00
John Baldwin
c4f16b69e1 Add a new 'void closefrom(int lowfd)' system call. When called, it closes
any open file descriptors >= 'lowfd'.  It is largely identical to the same
function on other operating systems such as Solaris, DFly, NetBSD, and
OpenBSD.  One difference from other *BSD is that this closefrom() does not
fail with any errors.  In practice, while the manpages for NetBSD and
OpenBSD claim that they return EINTR, they ignore internal errors from
close() and never return EINTR.  DFly does return EINTR, but for the common
use case (closing fd's prior to execve()), the caller really wants all
fd's closed and returning EINTR just forces callers to call closefrom() in
a loop until it stops failing.

Note that this implementation of closefrom(2) does not make any effort to
resolve userland races with open(2) in other threads.  As such, it is not
multithread safe.

Submitted by:	rwatson (initial version)
Reviewed by:	rwatson
MFC after:	2 weeks
2009-06-15 20:38:55 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
f4471727f3 - Use an acquire barrier to increment f_count in fget_unlocked and
remove the volatile cast.  Describe the reason in detail in a comment.

Discussed with:	bde, jhb
2009-06-02 06:55:32 +00:00
Jamie Gritton
0304c73163 Add hierarchical jails. A jail may further virtualize its environment
by creating a child jail, which is visible to that jail and to any
parent jails.  Child jails may be restricted more than their parents,
but never less.  Jail names reflect this hierarchy, being MIB-style
dot-separated strings.

Every thread now points to a jail, the default being prison0, which
contains information about the physical system.  Prison0's root
directory is the same as rootvnode; its hostname is the same as the
global hostname, and its securelevel replaces the global securelevel.
Note that the variable "securelevel" has actually gone away, which
should not cause any problems for code that properly uses
securelevel_gt() and securelevel_ge().

Some jail-related permissions that were kept in global variables and
set via sysctls are now per-jail settings.  The sysctls still exist for
backward compatibility, used only by the now-deprecated jail(2) system
call.

Approved by:	bz (mentor)
2009-05-27 14:11:23 +00:00
John Baldwin
6ca33ea345 Set the umask in a new file descriptor table earlier in fdcopy() to remove
two lock operations.
2009-05-20 18:42:04 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
6b72d8db47 Revert r192094. The revision caused problems for sysctl(3) consumers
that expect that oldlen is filled with required buffer length even when
supplied buffer is too short and returned error is ENOMEM.

Redo the fix for kern.proc.filedesc, by reverting the req->oldidx when
remaining buffer space is too short for the current kinfo_file structure.
Also, only ignore ENOMEM. We have to convert ENOMEM to no error condition
to keep existing interface for the sysctl, though.

Reported by:	ed, Florian Smeets <flo kasimir com>
Tested by:	pho
2009-05-15 14:41:44 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
bf422e5f27 - Implement a lockless file descriptor lookup algorithm in
fget_unlocked().
 - Save old file descriptor tables created on expansion until
   the entire descriptor table is freed so that pointers may be
   followed without regard for expanders.
 - Mark the file zone as NOFREE so we may attempt to reference
   potentially freed files.
 - Convert several fget_locked() users to fget_unlocked().  This
   requires us to manage reference counts explicitly but reduces
   locking overhead in the common case.
2009-05-14 03:24:22 +00:00
John Baldwin
3f11530b79 Update comment above _fget() for earlier change to FWRITE failures return
EBADF rather than EINVAL.

Submitted by:	Jaakko Heinonen  jh saunalahti fi
MFC after:	1 month
2009-04-15 19:10:37 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
0618630015 Remove the printf's when the vnode to be exported for procstat is not a VDIR.
If the file system backing a process' cwd is removed, and procstat -f PID
is called, then these messages would have been printed.  The extra verbosity is
not required in this situation.

Requested by:	kib
Approved by:	kib
2009-02-14 21:55:09 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
03fd9c2092 Change two KASSERTS to printfs and simple returns. Stress testing has
revealed that a process' current working directory can be VBAD if the
directory is removed.  This can trigger a panic when procstat -f PID is
run.

Tested by:	pho
Discovered by:	phobot
Reviewed by:	kib
Approved by:	kib
2009-02-14 21:12:24 +00:00
Robert Watson
54fffe2d67 Modify fdcopy() so that, during fork(2), it won't copy file descriptors
from the parent to the child process if they have an operation vector
of &badfileops.  This narrows a set of races involving system calls that
allocate a new file descriptor, potentially block for some extended
period, and then return the file descriptor, when invoked by a threaded
program that concurrently invokes fork(2).  Similar approches are used
in both Solaris and Linux, and the wideness of this race was introduced
in FreeBSD when we moved to a more optimistic implementation of
accept(2) in order to simplify locking.

A small race necessarily remains because the fork(2) might occur after
the finit() in accept(2) but before the system call has returned, but
that appears unavoidable using current APIs.  However, this race is
vastly narrower.

The fix can be validated using the newfileops_on_fork regression test.

PR:		kern/130348
Reported by:	Ivan Shcheklein <shcheklein at gmail dot com>
Reviewed by:	jhb, kib
MFC after:	1 week
2009-02-11 15:22:01 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
7efa697d80 Clear the pointers to the file in the struct filedesc before file is closed
in fdfree. Otherwise, sysctl_kern_proc_filedesc may dereference stale
struct file * values.

Reported and tested by:	pho
MFC after:	1 month
2008-12-30 12:51:56 +00:00
Peter Wemm
43151ee6cf Merge user/peter/kinfo branch as of r185547 into head.
This changes struct kinfo_filedesc and kinfo_vmentry such that they are
same on both 32 and 64 bit platforms like i386/amd64 and won't require
sysctl wrapping.

Two new OIDs are assigned.  The old ones are available under
COMPAT_FREEBSD7 - but it isn't that simple.  The superceded interface
was never actually released on 7.x.

The other main change is to pack the data passed to userland via the
sysctl.  kf_structsize and kve_structsize are reduced for the copyout.
If you have a process with 100,000+ sockets open, the unpacked records
require a 132MB+ copyout.  With packing, it is "only" ~35MB.  (Still
seriously unpleasant, but not quite as devastating).  A similar problem
exists for the vmentry structure - have lots and lots of shared libraries
and small mmaps and its copyout gets expensive too.

My immediate problem is valgrind.  It traditionally achieves this
functionality by parsing procfs output, in a packed format.  Secondly, when
tracing 32 bit binaries on amd64 under valgrind, it uses a cross compiled
32 bit binary which ran directly into the differing data structures in 32
vs 64 bit mode.  (valgrind uses this to track file descriptor operations
and this therefore affected every single 32 bit binary)

I've added two utility functions to libutil to unpack the structures into
a fixed record length and to make it a little more convenient to use.
2008-12-02 06:50:26 +00:00
John Baldwin
2ff47c5f18 Remove unnecessary locking around vn_fullpath(). The vnode lock for the
vnode in question does not need to be held.  All the data structures used
during the name lookup are protected by the global name cache lock.
Instead, the caller merely needs to ensure a reference is held on the
vnode (such as vhold()) to keep it from being freed.

In the case of procfs' <pid>/file entry, grab the process lock while we
gain a new reference (via vhold()) on p_textvp to fully close races with
execve(2).

For the kern.proc.vmmap sysctl handler, use a shared vnode lock around
the call to VOP_GETATTR() rather than an exclusive lock.

MFC after:	1 month
2008-11-04 19:04:01 +00:00
John Baldwin
21fc02d271 Use shared vnode locks instead of exclusive vnode locks for the access(),
chdir(), chroot(), eaccess(), fpathconf(), fstat(), fstatfs(), lseek()
(when figuring out the current size of the file in the SEEK_END case),
pathconf(), readlink(), and statfs() system calls.

Submitted by:	ups (mostly)
Tested by:	pho
MFC after:	1 month
2008-11-03 20:31:00 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
e11e3f187d Fix a number of style issues in the MALLOC / FREE commit. I've tried to
be careful not to fix anything that was already broken; the NFSv4 code is
particularly bad in this respect.
2008-10-23 20:26:15 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
1ede983cc9 Retire the MALLOC and FREE macros. They are an abomination unto style(9).
MFC after:	3 months
2008-10-23 15:53:51 +00:00
Robert Watson
ac2456bfc3 Downgrade XXX to a Note for fgetsock() and fputsock().
MFC after:	3 days
2008-10-12 20:03:17 +00:00
Ed Schouten
bc093719ca Integrate the new MPSAFE TTY layer to the FreeBSD operating system.
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
2008-08-20 08:31:58 +00:00