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
This change requires a small patch to libc, in order to avoid that
libminc has to pull in a large chunk of libc just for mktime(3).
Change-Id: I48e598b3716eff626cac461f78a41e32334e6b28
. bitcode fixes
. switch to compiler-rt instead of netbsd libc functions
or libgcc for support functions for both x86 and arm
. minor build fixes
. allow build with llvm without crossbuilding llvm itself
. can now build minix/arm using llvm and eabi - without C++
support for now (hence crossbuilding llvm itself is turned off
for minix/arm)
Change-Id: If5c44ef766f5b4fc4394d4586ecc289927a0d6eb
The entire infrastructure relied on an ACK feature, and as such, it
has been broken for years now, with no easy way to repair it.
Change-Id: I783c2a21276967af115a642199f31fef0f14a572
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
. get rid of includes in libcompat_minix:
. move configfile.h to minix/include/
. all others are unneeded as they point to other files
. merge the .c files with libc
Change-Id: I5e840c66fb9bc484f377926aa9d66473bbd16259
There was an off-by-one in the old MINIX-specific implementation,
which caused ttyname(3) to fail at random. Since we now have a working
devname(3), there is no need for MINIX-specific code anymore here.
Change-Id: I27d8b6c4f66c84f383156ed494b740d071af02a7
- Message type for PM_CLOCK_SETTIME, PM_CLOCK_GETTIME,
PM_CLOCK_GETRES, PM_GETTIMEOFDAY, PM_SETTIME.
- Small adaptation, message only transfert sub-second time in
nanoseconds, instead of both nano- and micro-seconds. Conversion
is done in userland, as required.
Change-Id: Ie4a6e0c457cc12626e85d2102c086a95311cf3e7
- Intorduce and use a message type for VFS_GETDENTS, VFS_READ,
VFS_WRITE.
- Some cleanup to related functions where vir_bytes are replaced (and
casted to/from, in parameter definition and local variables as well.
This allow to see more clearly which function receives unsafe
(pointer) values, or at least values which are not supposed to be
valid in the address space of VFS. The current patch does so only
for the minimal amount of functions which are concerned with the
introduction of the new message type.
Change-Id: I0cdca97409c4016d02fae067b48bf55d37572c5c
