Re: rthreads are always enabled

2013-04-05 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 15:35, Matthew Dempsky wrote: >>> - { "rthreads", CTLTYPE_INT }, \ >>> + { "rthreads", 0 }, \ >> >> Maybe change "rthreads" to "gap" like the other removed sysctl entries? > > So my thinking here is that "gap"

Re: rthreads are always enabled

2013-04-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 15:35, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > Maybe leave a comment that 74 was KERN_RTHREADS like for KERN_PROC? easy peasy. >> { "file2", CTLTYPE_STRUCT }, \ >> - { "rthreads", CTLTYPE_INT }, \ >> + { "rthreads", 0 }, \ > > Maybe change "rthreads" to "gap" like th

Re: rthreads are always enabled

2013-04-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'm not sure about the sysctl change. Are we sure there isn't any > code out there that uses it? In that case we should hardcode it to 1. If there is code which uses it, that code is using a dead ABI. Things change, libraries are cranked, the past is left behind. That is our way.

Re: rthreads are always enabled

2013-04-05 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> The small bits of code hiding behind rthreads_enabled aren't really >> experimental anymore. At this point, it's just one more knob you can >> twist to break your system. > > I'm not sure about the sysctl change. Are we sure there isn't any

Re: rthreads are always enabled

2013-04-05 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Index: sys/sysctl.h > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/sys/sysctl.h,v > retrieving revision 1.131 > diff -u -p -r1.131 sysctl.h > --- sys/sysctl.h24 Mar 2013 00:09:31 -

Re: rthreads are always enabled

2013-04-05 Thread Mark Kettenis
> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:26:32 -0400 > From: Ted Unangst > > The small bits of code hiding behind rthreads_enabled aren't really > experimental anymore. At this point, it's just one more knob you can > twist to break your system. I'm not sure about the sysctl change. Are we sure there isn't

rthreads are always enabled

2013-04-05 Thread Ted Unangst
The small bits of code hiding behind rthreads_enabled aren't really experimental anymore. At this point, it's just one more knob you can twist to break your system. Index: kern/kern_exit.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/kern_exit.c,

ral.4 grammar tweak

2013-04-05 Thread Brian Callahan
Hi tech -- Reading through ral.4, here's a little grammar tweak. "A firmware," while it might not be pedantically incorrect, reads awkwardly. OK? ~Brian Index: ral.4 === RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/ral.4,v retrieving revisi

Re: Stolen memory

2013-04-05 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting Mark Kettenis : Machines with Intel integrated graphics have this concept of stolen memory; system memory set aside by the BIOS for use by the graphics chip. On OpenBSD we don't touch that memory since we don't want to step on the BIOS' toes. We also assume that this memory is mapped i

ftp(1) man page: remove paragraph in BUGS

2013-04-05 Thread Lawrence Teo
The ftp(1) man page has a paragraph in BUGS that warns against using ftp(1) with 4.2BSD servers. I doubt anyone would connect to an 4.2BSD server today, so is there any reason not to remove it? Lawrence Index: ftp.1 === RCS file: /