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Patches

Documents

• Intention mode locking
• Why you want the namiefree patches

  User space code patches

• add '-P' to 'id' utility (description)
• add '-P' to 'id' utility (context diff)

  Things that should be ports

• Working LDAP for FreeBSD: 120k of patches (description)
• Working LDAP for FreeBSD: 120k of patches (compressed context diff)

  Against -current as of 01 Mar 98

• patches for remaining local media/pseudo-local media FS's (description)
• patches for remaining local media/pseudo-local media FS's (kernel patches)

  Against -current as of 28 Feb 98

• network interface changes (description)
• network interface changes (kernel patches)
• network interface changes (ifconfig patches)

  Against -current as of 11 Feb 98

• NFS client and server locking (description)
• NFS server locking fcntl(2) man page changes
• NFS client and server locking (kernel patches) *** BUG HAS BEEN FIXED ***

  Against -current as of 09 Feb 98

• NFS lease code left out of the kernel (patches for real bugs) This set of diffs has been updated to take into account John Dyson's corrections to kern_exec.c, which should have been using something other than vn_rdwr() a long time ago.

  Against -current as of 11 Feb 98

• Adding the -F flag to newsyslog (description)
• Adding the -F flag to newsyslog (patches)

  Against -current as of 11 Feb 98

• Changes to the handling of the root vnode (description)
• Changes to the handling of the root vnode (patches)

  Validation suites

• A validation suite for testing for kernel memory leaks (description)
• A validation suite for testing for kernel memory leaks (sources, uuencoded)

  COMING AS SOON AS I CAN CLEAN IT UP:

• The nameifree changes (description)
• The nameifree changes (patches)

• A highly concurrent intention mode lock manager for SMP kernels (description)
• A highly concurrent intention mode lock manager for SMP kernels (sources)

• The namei EXCLUDE flag: eliminating redundant code (description)
• The namei EXCLUDE flag: eliminating redundant code (patches)

• DEVFS Slice code: how one fdisk can handle all partitioning (description)
• DEVFS Slice code: how one fdisk can handle all partitioning (patches)
• DEVFS Slice code: how one fdisk can handle all partitioning (user space code [fdisk program])

• RAIDFrame: a software RAID on FreeBSD (patches)

• LDAP on FreeBSD (patches; assumes you have the fixed pthreads)

• FSFRAME: a framework for user space FS developement (description)
• FSFRAME: a framework for user space FS developement (patches)
• FSFRAME: a framework for user space FS developement (user space code)
• PFS: a proxy FS for use in FSFRAME (kernel code)

• UNIONFS: patches to make it work (patches only)

• UMAPFS: patches to make it work (patches only)

  COMMITS (THE CROWD GOES WILD!):

• Adding the SunOS/Ultrix "-d" flag to the "w" command
• SYSINIT: A framework for dynamic kernel initialization
• LKM: Loadable kernel modules: A framework for dynamic kernel extension
• Patch to fix reference counts in fsck when "lost+found" is created
• Line discipline changes for l_hotchar so serial drivers don't have to
• Add IPPROTO types to netinet/in.h per RFC 1700
• VOP_GETPAGES/VOP_PUTPAGES first round support

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