. workaround for clang's stdint.h __STDC_HOSTED__ test
that causes the host stdint.h to be ignored for -ffreestanding,
causing a type to be double-defined in the kernel
. only use for single-page invalidations initially
. shows tiny but statistically significant performance
improvement; will be more helpful in certain VM debug
modes
. ipc wants to know about processes that get
signals, so that it can break blocking ipc operations
. doing it for every single signal is wasteful
and causes the annoying 'no slot for signals' message
. this fix tells vm on a per-process basis it (ipc)
wants to be notified, i.e. only when it does any ipc calls
. move ipc config to separate config file while we're at it
- BSD-licensed Code gratefully taken from the project at
http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_vassertlinuxsdk/
- For more information on vmware VAssert, a powerful debugging
facility usable under vmware, see:
www.vmware.com/pdf/ws65_vassert_programming.pdf
The bsd signal names are out-of-order compared to the minix ones.
I found out (the hard way) that the (MINIX-descending) ordered list of
signals in <sys/signal.h> does not match the (BSD-descending) ordered
list of signals in usr/src/lib/libc/nbsd_libc/gen/sig{name,list}.c
Beyond being unfortunate, it prevents the trap command of ash to handle
correctly a named signal; a funny test case is
#!/bin/sh
trap 'echo trapping signal BUS' BUS
trap 'echo trapping signal 10 (USR1)' 10
trap # show me what is currently trapped
As a quick workaround, I disabled the use of the libc-provided
sys_sig{name,list} arrays for ash, and reverted to the hand-made array
which is used by the less capable MINIX libc. It allowed me to use
pkgsrc.
. needed for netbsd libc dns resolution
. points to minix nonamed
. /etc/resolv.conf should have the real info
(written by netconf / dhcp client)
. nonamed should be phased out but will probably
be around for the 'old' libc
