Historically, GEOM utilities (gpart(8), gstripe(8), gmirror(8),
etc) used the gctl_error() routine to report errors. If they called
gctl_error() they would exit with EXIT_FAILURE, otherwise they would
return with EXIT_SUCCESS. If they used gctl_error() to output an
informational message, for example when run with the -v (verbose)
option, they would mistakenly exit with EXIT_FAILURE. A further
limitation of the gctl_error() function was that it could only be
called once. Messages from any additional calls to gctl_error()
would be silently discarded.
To resolve these problems a new function, gctl_msg() has been added.
It can be called multiple times to output multiple messages. It
also has an additional errno argument which should be zero if it is
an informational message or an errno value (EINVAL, EBUSY, etc) if
it is an error. When done the gctl_post_messages() function should
be called to indicate that all messages have been posted. If any
of the messages had a non-zero errno, the utility will EXIT_FAILURE.
If only informational messages (with zero errno) were posted, the
utility will EXIT_SUCCESS.
Tested by: Peter Holm
PR: 265184
MFC after: 1 week
Make gctl_add_param() API public, allowing more precise control over
parameter flags. Previously it was impossible to properly declare
write-only ASCII parameters, used for result reporting, they were
declared as read-write binary instead, that was not nice.
MFC after: 1 month
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.
- Fix a number of potential memory leaks in libgeom related to doing realloc
without freeing old pointer if things go wrong.
- Fix a number of places in libgeom where malloc and calloc return values
were not checked.
- Check malloc return value and provide sufficient warning messages when XML
parsing fails.
PR: kern/83464
Submitted by: Dan Lukes <dan - at - obluda.cz>
Approved by: kib (mentor)
