tftpd currently unconditionally sets its namespace via /lib/namespace
(newns("none", nil)), which stymied my attempts to pxe boot the
openbsd installer without creating a real /etc dir on 9front, which
would've been gross.
I tried working around this with -h (and -r for good measure), but
again hit issues because the namespace is rebuilt from scratch -- any
binds of /386, /amd64, /cfg/pxe, etc. into the tftp-specific directory
disappeared from tftpd's namespace and rendered my *9front* boxes
unable to boot. I could maintain copies of the needed files in the
tftp-specific directory, but that'd be kind of a drag.
The following patch adds a -n flag to allow the specification of a
namespace file in place of /lib/namespace; similar to ip/ftpd.
I thought about setting up a /lib/namespace.tftp to act as a default
rather than continuing to use /lib/namespace by default (which
security-wise is about the same as allowing 9p mounts by user none,
which I also have disabled), but I had trouble coming up with a sane
default. Maybe someone more experienced would like to try that out.
- sam-d
* Add the %ll length modifier,
* Convert nil to "<nil>" under %s (not in APE),
* Cast void* to uintptr under %p,
* Use "0x" hex prefix under %p,
* Fix manual page mentions of %P to %p,
* Fix empty result for fp conversions,
* Fix zero padding of left-aligned fp conversions,
* Remove deprecated #pragma ref uses.
Most of these were introduced in APE prior to 9front.
I've omitted the %z conversion specifier since Plan 9 code
rarely uses the usize type. This may need to be added later
for the benefit of native ports of alien code.
The old parser code was rubbish and only worked for trivial
expressions. The new code properly handles complex expressions,
including short circuit evaluation.
As such, the BUGS section has been removed from the test(1) man page.
The description of an unimplemented feature has also been removed.
When running a mail queue, it's useful to run it with limited
parallelism. This helps mailing lists process messages in a
reasonable time.
At the same time, we can remove the load balancing from runq,
since the kinds of systems that this matters on no longer
exist, and running multiple queues at once can be better
done through xargs.
Passwd used to produce a very confusing error
about DES not being enabled whenever the password
was mistyped. This happened because we attempted
to guess what authentication method to use, and
preseneted the error from the wrong one on failure.
This puts the legacy mode behind a flag, so that
we don't even try the old method unless it's
explicitly requested.
Tilting allows using left/right rotated or invetrted display orientation.
This can be changed at runtime such as: echo tilt right > /dev/vgactl
This removes the old panning and vga overlays as they are only implemented
with some ancient vga controllers.
The idea is to avoid the magic files that contain
per process information in devcons when possible.
It will make it easier to deprecate them in the future.
Provide a central function to change the user id
of the calling process.
This is mostly used by programs to become the none
user, followed by a call to newns().
hget supports adding custom headers with -r;
it makes sense for hpost to do the same, both
because custom headers are more likely necessary
with POSTs, and for consistency.
The initial protocol handling in exportfs for
cpu and import services is a huge mess.
Saparate the code out into its own program with
its own oexportfs(4) manpage.
The OCEXEC flag used to be maintained per channel,
making it shared between all the file desciptors.
This has a unexpected side effects with regard to
channel passing drivers such as devdup (/fd),
devsrv (/srv) and devshr (/shr).
For example, opening a /srv file with OCEXEC
makes it impossible to be remounted by exportfs
as it internally does a exec() to mount and
re-export it. There is no way to reset the flag.
This change makes the OCEXEC flag per file descriptor,
so a open with the OCEXEC flag only affects the fd
group of the calling process, and not the channel
itself.
On rfork(RFFDG), the per file descriptor flags get
copied.
On dup(), the per file descriptor flags are reset.
The second modification is that /fd, /srv and /shr
should reject the ORCLOSE flag, as the files that
are returned have already been opend.
The -v flag now does not create a new rio window,
while -w flag does (restores the old behaviour).
This allows vmx to run under vncs and is in general
mode aligned to other emulators and programs.
