specifing -d on the command line now only disables synchronous
drawing events.
- use threaded mouse and keyboard to allow for asynchronous
receoption of quit messages. this allows plot to exit before drawing
is completed. for programs like mapdemo, this is important.
there were two things that needed to get fixed as a result
- replace fprint(2, ...); exits("bad"); with sysfatal. also get rid
of stdio.
- dpoint needed a mach-dependentent (sic) version. otherwise
points on a resized screen will not be properly placed.
Charles Forsyth described the problem below in:
http://9fans.net/archive/2013/04/190
In a few cases, the kernel will use pprint to put a diagnostic on the
standard error (file descriptor 2). One of those is a warning that the
process has used more than 100 file descriptors. That message is possibly
obsolete and could be removed, but there are others, such as notifying an
uncaught trap that are probably helpful to make visible. In any case, as
things stand, a busy exportfs might have many file descriptors open,
provoking the diagnostic. Unfortunately, aux/listen and aux/listen1 connect
file descriptor 2 to the incoming network connection. If the connection's
protocol is not a simple, unstructured, textual one, diagnostics on the
standard error will cause confusion, in particular to devmnt.c if 9p is used.
/rc/bin/service files that start applications that run special protocols
might want to redirect file descriptor 2; alternatively, perhaps aux/listen
shouldn't redirect fd 2 by default: the few commands that do connect the remote
user to shells, or equivalent, including telnetd and sshd could dup 1 to 2
when that was sensible.
the software cursor starts flickering and reacts bumby if a process
spends most of its time with drawlock acquired because the timer interrupt
thats supposed to redraw the cursor fails to acquire the lock at the time
the timer fires.
instead of trying to draw the cursor on the screen from a timer interrupt
30 times per second, devmouse now creates a process calling cursoron() and
cursoroff() when the cursor needs to be redrawn. this allows the swcursor
to schedule a redraw while holding the drawlock in swcursoravoid() and
cursoron()/cursoroff() are now able to wait for a qlock (drawlock) because
they get called from process context.
the overall responsiveness is also improved with this change as the cursor
redraw rate isnt limited to 30 times a second anymore.
from ehci spec:
The buffer pointer list in the qTD is long enough to support a maximum
transfer size of 20K bytes. This case occurs when all five buffer pointers
are used and the first offset is zero. A qTD handles a 16Kbyte buffer
with any starting buffer alignment.
overriding aborttime in udpquery() makes no sense. it causes
recursive queries to extend the timeout infinitely. nobody
but the issuer of the request should modify aborttime.
*alen has to be initialized to the size of the buffer
by the caller, and we are supposed to put the real
size of the address in there, but not copy more than
the original *alen value (truncate).
