To use srvrease()/srvaquire() we need to have a way to spawn
new processes to handle the service loop. This functionality
was provided by the internal _forker() function which was
eigther rfork or libthread based implementation depending on
if postmountsrv() or threadpostmountsrv() where called.
For servers who want to use srv() directly, _forker would not
be initialized so srvrelease() could not be used.
To untangle this, we get rid of the global _forker handler
and put the handler in the Srv structure. Which will get
initialized (when nil) to eigther srvforker() or threadsrvforker()
depending on if the thread or non-thread entry points where used.
For symmetry, we provde new threadsrv() and threadpostsrv()
functions which handle the default initialization of Srv.forker.
This also allows a user to provide his own forker function,
maybe to conserve stack space.
To avoid dead code, we put each of these function in their
own object file. Note, this also allows a user to define its
own srvforker() symbol.
this fixes real-time applications.
-n previously specified a rate divisor rather than the rate itself,
which was used for specific applications outside of 9front. instead,
just set the rate directly, more useful and straightforward.
This patch adds dirmodefmt from fcall.h to pretty-print file
permissions, similarly to ls -l. I didn't notice any performance
degradation.
I hope no-one relied on the old behaviour.
i have found one bug. when i put glenda in a position like this
i somehow win, but the glenda can escape from there.
in addition, i have changed the games manpage to include more info about glendy.
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.
