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Category: Committed Code

Posted on 2021/01/15

Chat without servers

I always thought IRC was pretty decentralized, but I didn’t realize talk(1) was designed to work machine-to-machine.  That means in theory that if you have a talk(1) binary on your machine, you could chat directly to anyone else with the same binary, even on a different platform.  Since 4.3BSD!  Anyway, I only realized this because of this recent bugfix thanks to Dan Cross.

5 Comments - Categories: BSD, Committed Code, DragonFly, UNIXish
Posted on 2021/01/062021/01/04

timeout(1) in DragonFly

Aaron LI has ported timeout(1) to DragonFly.  It’s a way to run a command with a time limit, and I’m happy to say it is a cross-BSD item, coming from NetBSD by way of FreeBSD.

3 Comments - Categories: BSD, Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2021/01/042021/01/03

A bunch of updates for DragonFly

I’m doing a catch-up post here to note all the smaller updates, some cross-BSD, that have gone into DragonFly in the last week or two: openresolv 3.12.0, dhcpcd 9.4.0, tzdata2020f, 802.11 channel definitions, stdbuf(1) and libstdbuf(3), sockaddr_snprintf(),  and getaddrinfo(1).

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2021/01/01

A little commit hook change

You can’t tell directly from the commit message, but committing to DragonFly may trigger a reminder to MFC, based on commit message content.  This is thanks to Aaron LI.  It’s little, but this sort of automation is a good idea.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/12/312020/12/30

New user and group updater

Aaron LI’s added a pw-update.sh script to DragonFly, for use in automating group and user changes, especially as – someday – part of a binary upgrade.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly, Someday you will need this
Posted on 2020/12/282020/12/26

Multi-volume support in HAMMER2

If you remember HAMMER1’s ability to create a volume that spanned multiple local disks, that capability’s been introduced to HAMMER2.  Look at the commit message to see how it works so far.

Note that this is not multi-master replication.

1 Comment - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/12/212020/12/25

DRM update to 4.15.18

DRM in DragonFly has been updated to match Linux 4.15.18,  along with recognizing some new hardware.

1 Comment - Categories: Committed Code, Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/12/152020/12/14

The real uptime

This won’t affect your day-to-day operation of DragonFly, but it’s interesting: apparently, uptime was always (now minus boot time).  If you reset the clock on the machine, however, it would no longer be accurate.   Now it is accurate, for a number of utilties.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/12/11

SSL update for DragonFly

One last thing sneaking in for the week: There’s an update for libressl in DragonFly that fixes CVE-2020-1971.  It’s there for 5.8 or -current.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/11/242020/11/24

Maybe an API change

Because of this commit that makes some changes to lib/stdio, you might get more reinstalls than you expect on your next pkg upgrade because of the __DragonFly_version change.  This only applies to -current (5.9) users.

(I might be wrong)

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/11/17

Minimal kernel configs

If you want to build a kernel with no options, stripped down, here you go.  I don’t know how useful it would be…

1 Comment - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/11/16

Major callout API changes in DragonFly

Matthew Dillon has made significant changes to the callout API in DragonFly.  Interesting to look at, but I think no changes from a user point of view.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/11/10

Libressl update in DragonFly

DragonFly has a new version of libressl,  noting cause it has a newer TLS1.3 implementation – something that may be necessary for you.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/11/04

dhcpcd-9.3.2 in DragonFly

There’s a minor update to dhcpcd in DragonFly, which may be of specific interest if you’re on an IPv4/IPv6 network – there’s a Preferred option added for that.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/11/03

Binutils and linker changes

binutils and ld in DragonFly have been set to binutils234 and ld.bfd temporarily, for what appears to be work with the EFI bootloader.  This should not make a difference for normal use; rebuilding binaries will give you different results but they’ll run.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/10/30

cpdup and symlinks

cpdup(1) will now exactly recreate symlinks.  That may be helpful for your backup strategy if it already involves cpdup.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/10/26

DragonFly and clang10

You can now use compilers.conf(5) to switch to clang10/llvm10 for building Dragonfly.  Untested yet!

2 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/10/21

kernel vs. userland check

This seems so minor, but such a good idea: a regular check to make sure kernel and userland are in sync.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/10/20

libedit update in DragonFly

Daniel Fojt’s updated libedit in DragonFly; not huge, but I mention it cause I’ve seen the very first bug fixed in the commit listing; garbled history.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/10/19

Existential structural tracking in DragonFly

Matthew Dillon added “existence locks” to DragonFly, which as usual he committed with a long, descriptive message.

1 Comment - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly

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