Committed Code – DragonFly BSD Digest https://www.dragonflydigest.com A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:40:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FullLogoSquare-150x150.gif Committed Code – DragonFly BSD Digest https://www.dragonflydigest.com 32 32 gpt show shows more https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/10/09/gpt-show-shows-more/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:38:15 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29430 The show option to the gpt(8) command now has nicer output, with a summary line and ‘humanized’ units.

]]> vkbd(4), cuse(4) added to DragonFly https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/09/02/vkbd4-cuse4-added-to-dragonfly/ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/09/02/vkbd4-cuse4-added-to-dragonfly/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:21:31 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29362 DragonFly now has vkbd(4) (virtual keyboard) and cuse(3) “character device in user space” added in.

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/09/02/vkbd4-cuse4-added-to-dragonfly/feed/ 1 Disable console bell globally https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/08/18/disable-console-bell-globally/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:25:22 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29314 DragonFly now has a sysctl that will disable the console beep everywhere, not just in a particular shell.  This is either unimportant to you or a massive relief.

]]> Camera support via uvc in DragonFly https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/08/13/camera-support-via-uvc-in-dragonfly/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:23:36 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29312 Michael Neumann has completed an initial port of uvc, for webcam support, to DragonFly.  His commit message lists both how he did it and how to use it.

]]> IPv6 and proxying on DragonFly https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/06/25/ipv6-and-proxying-on-dragonfly/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:45:18 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29192 ifconfig now has ‘proxy’ and ‘-proxy’ options.  The ‘proxy’ option is now on by default, so a given IPv6 interface will respond to neighbor solicitations when forwarding is on.  Use ‘-proxy’ to turn it off; the previous default.

(This was back in May, and I missed posting it before.)

]]> DragonFly 6.4.2 released https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/05/10/dragonfly-6-4-2-released/ Sat, 10 May 2025 16:10:24 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29130 6.4.2, a bugfix upgrade to 6.4.1, is ready to download.  Why so soon?  A few annoying bugs that have been around a long time – and affect the installer – are fixed.  These changes will help you out if you run Qemu as host, run chrome, or use ipv6.

]]> Changes to crypto(9) and dm_target_crypt(4) https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/05/01/changes-to-crypto9-and-dm_target_crypt4/ Thu, 01 May 2025 19:32:02 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29094 Michael Neumann proposed a lot of changes to crypto(9) and dm_target_crypt(4); his initial proposal is I think now complete and committed, other than that tcplay(8) was updated instead of removed.  Here’s a sorted list of his commits.  These are not in the 6.4.1 release.

]]> Timeout(1) updates https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/04/24/timeout1-updates/ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/04/24/timeout1-updates/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2025 03:38:15 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=29081 Aaron LI has made a whole lot of POSIXy updates to timeout(1), of which I think these two are the most informational, but there’s a bunch more if you look at the month.  I’m also linking to it cause I didn’t know timeout(1) existed; never used it.

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/04/24/timeout1-updates/feed/ 1 Mail(1) and resizing https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/01/03/mail1-and-resizing/ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/01/03/mail1-and-resizing/#comments Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:25:35 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28890 This is going to seem minor, but it’s been annoying for a zillion years, and now it’s fixed: mail(1) now reflows text properly after a screen resize.

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/01/03/mail1-and-resizing/feed/ 2 Check your signal to noise ratio https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/04/26/check-your-signal-to-noise-ratio/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:34:56 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28491 Michael Neumann’s recent iwm(4) update fixes signal to noise display in ifconfig.  I am linking it to remind you to check your existing ratios now, while your network is fine.  You then can tell what has changed weeks, months from now when your network goes haywire and you’re looking for a reason.

]]> iwm(4) updates https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/04/03/iwm4-updates/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:17:10 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28451 iwm(4) on DragonFly has been updated, mostly with patches from the FreeBSD version of the network driver.

]]> /proc/self/exe on DragonFly https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/04/02/proc-self-exe-on-dragonfly/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:25:29 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28449 /proc/self/exe now exists on DragonFly.  This is probably most useful if you are porting software.

]]> A less dangerous ping https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/03/06/a-less-dangerous-ping/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:47:48 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28413 It took almost 3 decades, but it’s much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with ping now.

]]> In-kernel WireGuard on DragonFly available now https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/02/21/in-kernel-wireguard-on-dragonfly-available-now/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:44:14 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28380 Aaron LI’s written up a nice summary of what’s been added to support WireGuard on DragonFly and how to get started.  You need to be on -master to use it, but if you want to read about it there’s always the man page.

]]> Wireguard in DragonFly https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/02/09/wireguard-in-dragonfly/ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/02/09/wireguard-in-dragonfly/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:38:28 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28364 There’s a huge amount of commits for this, but I’ll point at the first with FreeBSD code; one of several incorporating OpenBSD changes, and of course it rolls out to tools.

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/02/09/wireguard-in-dragonfly/feed/ 1 Automatic package builds for releases https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/01/18/automatic-package-builds-for-releases/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:28:51 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28326 The DragonFly release process now includes an automatic build of supporting packages.

]]> DragonFly and Wireguard soon https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/01/16/dragonfly-and-wireguard-soon/ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/01/16/dragonfly-and-wireguard-soon/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:29:59 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28320 Aaron Li has committed different crypto implementations for support.

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/01/16/dragonfly-and-wireguard-soon/feed/ 5 devfs and procfs in jail https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2023/11/09/devfs-and-procfs-in-jail/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:05:04 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28185 You can now run devfs(5) and procfs(5) in a jailed environment for DragonFly.  As the commit message says, it’s for dsynth but I imagine this may be good for other applications.

]]> Kernel and world rebuild needed https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2023/10/30/kernel-and-world-rebuild-needed/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:22:53 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28171 If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly, this recent struct change will require a kernel and world rebuild.  If you are running the release, it doesn’t affect you.

]]> Per-process capability-based restrictions https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2023/10/20/per-process-capability-based-restrictions/ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2023/10/20/per-process-capability-based-restrictions/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:51:09 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=28157 New to the DragonFly kernel: jail-like capability restrictions, that may not require a jail to use.

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