The first paragraph of "Argument list processing" says that an
argument of - will make csh be a login shell. However, running
csh with only a - as an argument fails with the error message.
csh(1) corrected to reflect this.
PR: 16754
Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Three minor changes to the manpage of chmod(1).
1. At the description of -H option, I added that symlinks are
not followed _by default_ to show that links can be followed,
but the default chmod behavior is not to do so.
2. Moved a misplaced .Va file command up to the place it belongs.
3. Simplified the grammar that describes symbolic modes.
PR: 16749
Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
interface, and statically link them to the programs using them.
These functions, upon reflection and discussion, are too generically
named for a library interface with such specific functionality.
Also the api that they use, whilst ok for private use, isn't good
enough for a libc function.
Additionally there were complications with the build/install-world
process. It depends heavily upon xinstall, which got broken by
the change in api, and caused bootstrap problems and general mayhem.
There is work in progress to address future problems that may be
caused by changes in install-chain tools, and better names for
{g|s}etflags can be derived when some future program requires them.
For now the code has been left in src/lib/libc/gen (it started off
in src/bin/ls).
It's important to provide library functions for manipulating file
flag strings if we ever want this interface to be adopted outside
of the source tree, but now isn't necessarily the right moment
with 4.0-release just around the corner.
Approved: jkh
string to u_long and back using two functions, flags_to_string and
string_to_flags, which co-existed with 'ls'. As time has progressed
more and more other tools have used these private functions to
manipulate the file flags.
Recently I moved these functions from /usr/src/bin/ls to libutil,
but after some discussion with bde it's been decided that they
really ought to go in libc.
There are two already existing libc functions for manipulating file
modes: setmode and getmode. In keeping with these flags_to_string
has been renamed getflags and string_to_flags to setflags.
The manual page could probably be improved upon ;)
. add Xrs to hosts.equiv(5), auth.conf(5), services(5) to some pages
. sort Xrs in SEE ALSO sections
Patches based on PR: docs/15680
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
from the source attributed below. In particular, this removes a goto
inside a switch and replaces those horrendous ATOI macros with
something acceptable.
More clean-ups to come.
PR: bin/14151
Reported by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Obtained from: NetBSD
common way of setting the hostname. The man page already mentioned that
the hostname is set by /etc/rc.network, so this just explains where
/etc/rc.network gets the hostname from.
PR: docs/14319
Submitted by: rwatson
Reviewed by: cmc
respectively, in accordance with SUSv2.
This differs from the approach taken in NetBSD, but provides
less obscure error messages in at least the EISDIR case and
does not take up additional disk space for new binaries.
PR: 13071
PR: 13074
Requested by: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
Obtained from: parts of human readable code from OpenBSD
Reviewed by: obrien
add POSIX, byte and megabyte block size ouput flags
PR: 13579 (POSIX flag)
Submitted by: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
bfumerola for that pointer!) in GCC complaining about losing a const.
While I'm here, might as well mark in the Makefile that I'm the
${MAINTAINER}. It seems like that's what everyone's doing these days.
in that revision as well as things I broke in that revision. A note-
worthy instance of the latter case was the inversion of -E and -V in the
subsection on Commandline Editing.
Turn off setgid-kmem for /bin/ps, it's now quite functional without it.
ps no longer needs /dev/*mem or /proc. (It will still use some /proc
files if they are available for -e, but it's not required, so it'll
happily run in a jail or chroot).
The proc stats are now part of eproc (obtained via sysctl) and no longer
needs to beat up the u-page reading code and the problems with that.
This also has the side effect of disabling 'ps -e' for normal users
*EXCEPT* when looking at their own processes. ie: they can see
environments in processes with their uid, enforced by the ownership of
/proc/*/mem. Root can still see them all, as it can open all /proc/*/mem.
This fixes some nasty procfs problems for SMP, makes ps(1) run much faster,
and makes ps(1) even less dependent on /proc which will aid chroot and
jails alike.
To disable this facility and revert to previous behaviour:
sysctl -w kern.ps_arg_cache_limit=0
For full details see the current@FreeBSD.org mail-archives.
than two processes (got that? :-), the stdin fd of the middle
processes that has just been set up was accidetially closed. Don't do
this.
PR: bin/14527
be ignored by default by the df(1) program. This is used mostly to
avoid stat()-ing entries that do not represent "real" disk mount
points (such as those made by an automounter such as amd.) It is
also useful not to have to stat() these entries because it takes
longer to report them that for other file systems, being that these
mount points are served by a user-level file server and resulting in
several context switches. Worse, if the automounter is down
unexpectedly, a causal df(1) will hang in an interruptible way.
PR: kern/9764
Submitted by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
This is a conservative change. It does the same thing in weird
cases like the old one. For example, 'sleep abcd' still sleeps
for zero seconds. `sleep 10.a' and `sleep 10.05aa' do the best
and not abort (ie: 10.a == 10 seconds, 10.05a == 10.05 seconds).
what I was trying to do work much better (ie at all. I could have sworn
it was working...) Fix a SEEK_SET to be SEEK_CUR, and make Bruce's
lseek() test work correctly.
useful as a seeking-tool as well as its many other uses. Previously,
dd(1) would succeed with count=0, but wouldn't get to the point that
blocks were to be read/written. This is a more useful behavior, and
this specific case doesn't seem to be handled by POSIX.
commit and those which cause ugly nroff output have been fixed, since
the purpose of the style guideline which they contravene is to reduce
the sizes of deltas.
Reported by: bde
rm must not use FTS_NOCHDIR, since chdir'ing is required for removing
deep directory trees and the ability to remove such trees is required
by POSIX.2 and POLA. The breakage didn't make much difference until
recently, since fts(3) didn't work in deep directory trees. It isn't
clear whether using FTS_NOCHDIR ever fixed anything (Net/2's rm.c is
similar to Lite1's). Perhaps it was actually to limit the damage
caused by the fts bug.
BDEification process of dd(1). Most of the changes are from BDE's archive.
Support for negative offsets is gone again, but the case where you
lseek() onto byte -1 of something from a negative offset using seek/skip
is fixed; if you end up on -1, you won't get a false positive lseek failure.
The biggest changes are to data types (more size_t, for instance) and
argument parsing. skip/seek on /dev/{,k}mem now occurs (instead of "read
until you reach the offset") due to mem devices now being D_DISK. Some
const things are now correctly declared as such, and the "case table"
building is better. The only thing that seems to be left to make dd(1)
everything TOG wants it to be is l10n.
* Consistently misspell built-in as builtin.
* Add a builtin(1) manpage and create builtin(1) MLINKS for all shell
builtin commands for which no standalone utility exists. These MLINKS
replace those that were created for csh(1).
* Add appropriate xrefs for builtin(1) to the csh(1) and sh(1) manpages,
as well as to the manpages of standalone utilities which are supported
as shell builtin commands in at least one of the shells. In such
manpages, explain that similar functionality may be provided as a
shell builtin command.
* Improve sh(1)'s description of the cd builtin command. Csh(1) already
describes it adequately. Replace the cd(1) manpage with a builtin(1)
MLINKS link.
* Clean up some mdoc problems: use Xr instead of literal "foo(n)"; use
Ic instead of Xr for shell builtin commands.
* Undo English contractions.
Reviewed by: mpp, rgrimes
Fix grammar and spelling nits.
Use .Dq and .Qq where appropriate.
Divorce trailing punctuation from quoted elements.
Use .Dq instead of .Xr for builtins.
Remove trailing whitespace and blank lines.
PR: 13340
`opaque', fix reversed description of `nodump', and don't use
`nodump' as an example of adding a `no' prefix since the double
negative would be confusing (it's still confusing -- the implicitly
documented `nonodump' flag doesn't exist).)
To quote their ls(1) specification:
-n
The same as -l, except that the owner's UID and GID numbers are
written, rather than the associated character strings.
Reviewed by: green
Use an upward approximation of the number of characters required
for decimal representations of uid_t, gid_t and u_quad_t, intead
of arbitrary values that may not be safe in the future.
Fix disordering.
Requested by: bde
supposedly it's ksh-derived, and it's not broken in pdksh. I've added
a test for test running as root: if testing for -x, the file must be
mode & 0111 to get "success", rather than just existant.
Reviewed by: chris
significantly easier to read and extend and offers a few new tests.
A few style changes taken from style(9) and OpenBSD, as well as
whitespace cleanups.
This change was discussed on freebsd-committers and freebsd-hackers
and met with approval from at least des, eivind and brian.
PR: 13091
Obtained from: NetBSD
