than silently failing and returning success.
Without this, code calls pthread_once(), receives a return value of
success, and thinks that the passed function has been called.
Approved by: dim (mentor)
system calls to provide feed-forward clock management capabilities to
userspace processes. ffclock_getcounter() returns the current value of the
kernel's feed-forward clock counter. ffclock_getestimate() returns the current
feed-forward clock parameter estimates and ffclock_setestimate() updates the
feed-forward clock parameter estimates.
- Document the syscalls in the ffclock.2 man page.
- Regenerate the script-derived syscall related files.
Committed on behalf of Julien Ridoux and Darryl Veitch from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, as part of the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Feed-Forward
Clock Synchronization Algorithms" project.
For more information, see http://www.synclab.org/radclock/
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
load of _l suffixed versions of various standard library functions that use
the global locale, making them take an explicit locale parameter. Also
adds support for per-thread locales. This work was funded by the FreeBSD
Foundation.
Please test any code you have that uses the C standard locale functions!
Reviewed by: das (gdtoa changes)
Approved by: dim (mentor)
change here is to ensure that when a process forks after arc4random
is seeded, the parent and child don't observe the same random sequence.
OpenBSD's fix introduces some additional overhead in the form of a
getpid() call. This could be improved upon, e.g., by setting a flag
in fork(), if it proves to be a problem.
This was discussed with secteam (simon, csjp, rwatson) in 2008, shortly
prior to my going out of town and forgetting all about it. The conclusion
was that the problem with forks is worrisome, but it doesn't appear to
have introduced an actual vulnerability for any known programs.
The only significant remaining difference between our arc4random and
OpenBSD's is in how we seed the generator in arc4_stir().
OpenBSD's version (r1.22). While some of our style changes were
indeed small improvements, being able to easily track functionality
changes in OpenBSD seems more useful.
Also fix style bugs in the FreeBSD-specific parts of this file.
No functional changes, as verified with md5.
The size passed to strlcat() must depend on the input length, not the
output length. Because the input and output buffers are equal in size,
the resulting binary does not change at all.
madvise(2) except that it operates on a file descriptor instead of a
memory region. It is currently only supported on regular files.
Just as with madvise(2), the advice given to posix_fadvise(2) can be
divided into two types. The first type provide hints about data access
patterns and are used in the file read and write routines to modify the
I/O flags passed down to VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE(). These modes are
thus filesystem independent. Note that to ease implementation (and
since this API is only advisory anyway), only a single non-normal
range is allowed per file descriptor.
The second type of hints are used to hint to the OS that data will or
will not be used. These hints are implemented via a new VOP_ADVISE().
A default implementation is provided which does nothing for the WILLNEED
request and attempts to move any clean pages to the cache page queue for
the DONTNEED request. This latter case required two other changes.
First, a new V_CLEANONLY flag was added to vinvalbuf(). This requests
vinvalbuf() to only flush clean buffers for the vnode from the buffer
cache and to not remove any backing pages from the vnode. This is
used to ensure clean pages are not wired into the buffer cache before
attempting to move them to the cache page queue. The second change adds
a new vm_object_page_cache() method. This method is somewhat similar to
vm_object_page_remove() except that instead of freeing each page in the
specified range, it attempts to move clean pages to the cache queue if
possible.
To preserve the ABI of struct file, the f_cdevpriv pointer is now reused
in a union to point to the currently active advice region if one is
present for regular files.
Reviewed by: jilles, kib, arch@
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 month
the word alignment, some versions of gcc do require 16-byte alignment.
Make sure the stack is 16-byte aligned before calling a subroutine.
Inspired by: PR amd64/162214
MFC after: 1 week
as it is required by amd64 ABI. Add a comment for the places were
the stack is accidentally properly aligned already.
PR: amd64/162214
Submitted by: yamayan <yamayan kbh biglobe ne jp>
MFC after: 1 week
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
