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David van Moolenbroek
da21d85025 Add PTYFS, Unix98 pseudo terminal support
This patch adds support for Unix98 pseudo terminals, that is,
posix_openpt(3), grantpt(3), unlockpt(3), /dev/ptmx, and /dev/pts/.
The latter is implemented with a new pseudo file system, PTYFS.

In effect, this patch adds secure support for unprivileged pseudo
terminal allocation, allowing programs such as tmux(1) to be used by
non-root users as well.  Test77 has been extended with new tests, and
no longer needs to run as root.

The new functionality is optional.  To revert to the old behavior,
remove the "ptyfs" entry from /etc/fstab.

Technical nodes:

o The reason for not implementing the NetBSD /dev/ptm approach is that
  implementing the corresponding ioctl (TIOCPTMGET) would require
  adding a number of extremely hairy exceptions to VFS, including the
  PTY driver having to create new file descriptors for its own device
  nodes.

o PTYFS is required for Unix98 PTYs in order to avoid that the PTY
  driver has to be aware of old-style PTY naming schemes and even has
  to call chmod(2) on a disk-backed file system.  PTY cannot be its
  own PTYFS since a character driver may currently not also be a file
  system.  However, PTYFS may be subsumed into a DEVFS in the future.

o The Unix98 PTY behavior differs somewhat from NetBSD's, in that
  slave nodes are created on ptyfs only upon the first call to
  grantpt(3).  This approach obviates the need to revoke access as
  part of the grantpt(3) call.

o Shutting down PTY may leave slave nodes on PTYFS, but once PTY is
  restarted, these leftover slave nodes will be removed before they
  create a security risk.  Unmounting PTYFS will make existing PTY
  slaves permanently unavailable, and absence of PTYFS will block
  allocation of new Unix98 PTYs until PTYFS is (re)mounted.

Change-Id: I822b43ba32707c8815fd0f7d5bb7a438f51421c1
2015-06-23 17:43:46 +00:00
Lionel Sambuc
31b808b8fa Drop minix-malloc & friends
Known limitations:
 - comment for now testisofs, as iso9660fs is known to be broken.

Benefits:
 - near 3x speed improvement on C++ code compilation, bringing down
   make build to from 44min down to 21min.

 - Allows for X applications to work properly, which should be available
   in near-term future through pkgsrc for 3.3.0.

Change-Id: I8f4179a7ea925ed381642add32cfd8c5822217e4
2014-09-08 17:30:18 +02:00
Lionel Sambuc
433d6423c3 New sources layout
Change-Id: Ic716f336b7071063997cf5b4dae6d50e0b4631e9
2014-07-31 16:00:30 +02:00
Lionel Sambuc
84d9c625bf Synchronize on NetBSD-CVS (2013/12/1 12:00:00 UTC)
- Fix for possible unset uid/gid in toproto
 - Fix for default mtree style
 - Update libelf
 - Importing libexecinfo
 - Resynchronize GCC, mpc, gmp, mpfr
 - build.sh: Replace params with show-params.
     This has been done as the make target has been renamed in the same
     way, while a new target named params has been added. This new
     target generates a file containing all the parameters, instead of
     printing it on the console.
 - Update test48 with new etc/services (Fix by Ben Gras <ben@minix3.org)
     get getservbyport() out of the inner loop

Change-Id: Ie6ad5226fa2621ff9f0dee8782ea48f9443d2091
2014-07-28 17:05:06 +02:00
Lionel Sambuc
f14fb60209 Libraries updates and cleanup
* Updating common/lib
 * Updating lib/csu
 * Updating lib/libc
 * Updating libexec/ld.elf_so
 * Corrected test on __minix in featuretest to actually follow the
   meaning of the comment.
 * Cleaned up _REENTRANT-related defintions.
 * Disabled -D_REENTRANT for libfetch
 * Removing some unneeded __NBSD_LIBC defines and tests

Change-Id: Ic1394baef74d11b9f86b312f5ff4bbc3cbf72ce2
2013-01-14 11:36:26 +01:00
Lionel Sambuc
9152e1c5a7 Upgrading build system to new NetBSD revision
The tested targets are the followgin ones:
 * tools
 * distribution
 * sets
 * release

The remaining NetBSD targets have not been disabled nor tested
*at all*. Try them at your own risk, they may reboot the earth.

For all compliant Makefiles, objects and generated files are put in
MAKEOBJDIR, which means you can now keep objects between two branch
switching. Same for DESTDIR, please refer to build.sh options.

Regarding new or modifications of Makefiles a few things:
 * Read share/mk/bsd.README
 * If you add a subdirectory, add a Makefile in it, and have it called
   by the parent through the SUBDIR variable.
 * Do not add arbitrary inclusion which crosses to another branch of
   the hierarchy; If you can't do without it, put a comment on why.
   If possible, do not use inclusion at all.
 * Use as much as possible the infrastructure, it is here to make
   life easier, do not fight it.

Sets and package are now used to track files.
We have one set called "minix", composed of one package called "minix-sys"
2012-11-15 16:07:29 +01:00
Ben Gras
d3d8c30c2e libc/libminc malloc reorganization
. rename minix malloc sources to minix-* so Makefile
    references aren't ambiguous
  . throw out malloc source file copies in libminc
  . make libminc use phkmalloc instead of minix malloc (slightly faster)
2012-09-18 13:17:44 +02:00
Ben Gras
2fe8fb192f Full switch to clang/ELF. Drop ack. Simplify.
There is important information about booting non-ack images in
docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and
booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the
new boot monitor is recommended.

Changes in this commit:

	. drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support
	. facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor
	  can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING
	. no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries
	. some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases
	. drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support
	  commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet).
	. a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir
	. new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/
	. test compile fix
	. harmonize includes
	. /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no
	  kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping
	  is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even
	  less on the state of the machine making them now.
	. rename nbsd_lib* to lib*
	. reduce mtree
2012-02-14 14:52:02 +01:00
Renamed from lib/nbsd_libc/stdlib/Makefile.inc (Browse further)