In order to allow to add cpuset(2) functionality to more utilities than just
cpuset(1) move the parselist code into libutil
While here, make the code a little more "library" friendly, by returning a range
of various errors so that the consumer can check for them and report appropriate
error message to the users
(One of the planed usage is the jail(8) utility)
Reviewed by: jilles
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12873
which is the wrapper around the vm.swap_objects sysctl, same as
kinfo_getvmobject(3) wraps vm.objects.
Submitted by: Yoshihiro Ota
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29754
This function returns the path to the local software base directory, by
default "/usr/local" (or the value of _PATH_LOCALBASE in include/paths.h
when building the world).
The value returned can be overridden by 2 methods:
- the LOCALBASE environment variable (ignored by SUID programs)
- else a non-default user.localbase sysctl value
Reviewed by: hps (earlier version)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27236
unify the retrieval of the various ways that the local software base directory,
typically "/usr/local", is expressed in the system.
Reviewed by: se
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27022
data from /etc/passwd rather than /etc/master.passwd.
The libc getpwent(3) and related functions automatically read master.passwd
when run by root, or passwd when run by a non-root user. When run by non-
root, getpwent() copes with the missing data by setting the corresponding
fields in the passwd struct to known values (zeroes for numbers, or a
pointer to an empty string for literals). When libutil's pw_scan(3) was
used to parse a line without the root-accessible data, it was leaving
garbage in the corresponding fields.
These changes rename the static pw_init() function used by getpwent() and
friends to __pw_initpwd(), and move it into pw_scan.c so that common init
code can be shared between libc and libutil. pw_scan(3) now calls
__pw_initpwd() before __pw_scan(), just like the getpwent() family does, so
that reading an arbitrary passwd file in either format and parsing it with
pw_scan(3) returns the same results as getpwent(3) would.
This also adds a new pw_initpwd(3) function to libutil, so that code which
creates passwd structs from scratch in some manner that doesn't involve
pw_scan() can initialize the struct to the values expected by lots of
existing code, which doesn't expect to encounter NULL pointers or garbage
values in some fields.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using mis-identified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
it takes a new argument allowing to specify the endianness of the database
to generate
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2730
Reviewed by: ian
examined via 'vmstat -o'. It can be used to determine which files are
using physical pages of memory and how much each is using.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2277
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc. (forward porting to HEAD/10)
for pidfh in libutil.h in its place.
This allows us to hide the contents of the pidfh structure, and also
allowed removal of the "#ifdef _SYS_PARAM_H" guard from around the
pidfile_* function prototypes.
Suggested by pjd.
- if pw is NULL and oldpw is not NULL then the oldpw is deleted
- if pw->pw_name != oldpw->pw_name but pw->pw_uid == oldpw->pw_uid
then it renames the user
add new gr_* functions so now gr_util API is similar to pw_util API,
this allow to manipulate groups in a safe way.
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: des
MFC after: 1 month
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
prefixes (Ki, Mi, Gi...) for humanize_number(3).
Note that applications has to pass HN_IEC_PREFIXES to use this
feature for backward compatibility reasons.
Reviewed by: arundel
MFC after: 2 weeks
switch. Since expand_number() does not accept negative numbers, switch
from int64_t to uint64_t; this makes it easier to check for overflow.
MFC after: 3 weeks
These functions only apply to utmp(5). They cannot be kept intact when
moving towards utmpx. The login(3) function would break, because its
argument is an utmp structure. The logout(3) and logwtmp(3) functions
cannot be used, since they provide a functionality which partially
overlaps.
Increment SHLIB_MAJOR to 9 to indicate the removal.
There are several reasons why it didn't work:
- It was missing <sys/cdefs.h> for __BEGIN_DECLS.
- It uses various primitive types that were not declared.
quotactl(2) interface and inactive quotas by accessing the quota
files directly.
Update the edquota program to use this new interface as proof of
concept.
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.
after similar calls related to struct pwd in libutil/pw_util.c:
- gr_equal()
Perform a deep comparison of two struct grp's. It does a thorough, yet
unoptimized comparison of all the members regardless of order.
- gr_make()
Create a string (see group(5)) from a struct grp.
- gr_dup()
Duplicate a struct grp. Returns a value that is a single contiguous
block of memory.
- gr_scan()
Create a struct grp from a string (as produced by gr_make()).
MFC after: 3 weeks
