Gone are the old kern_sysctl(), cpu_sysctl(), hw_sysctl(),
vfs_sysctl(), etc, routines, along with sysctl_int() et al. Now all
nodes are registered with the tree, and nodes can be added (or
removed) easily, and I/O to and from the tree is handled generically.
Since the nodes are registered with the tree, the mapping from name to
number (and back again) can now be discovered, instead of having to be
hard coded. Adding new nodes to the tree is likewise much simpler --
the new infrastructure handles almost all the work for simple types,
and just about anything else can be done with a small helper function.
All existing nodes are where they were before (numerically speaking),
so all existing consumers of sysctl information should notice no
difference.
PS - I'm sorry, but there's a distinct lack of documentation at the
moment. I'm working on sysctl(3/8/9) right now, and I promise to
watch out for buses.
so that a specific emulation has the oportunity to filter out some signals.
if sigfilter returns 0, then no signal is sent by kpsignal2().
There is another place where signals can be generated: trapsignal. Since this
function is already an emulation hook, no call to the sigfilter hook was
introduced in trapsignal.
This is needed to emulate the softsignal feature in COMPAT_DARWIN (signals
sent as Mach exception messages)
Exceptions coming from a trap are generated from darwin_trapsignal()
softsignals are from darwin_sigfilter(), a function that is called
from darwin_trapsignal() and from kpsignal2() [the latter from a
emulation specific hook which is not yet committed]
Make some sanity checks to avoid sending data to a port with no receiver.
See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2003/12/01/0008.html and
follow-ups for details.
wrong on the semantic front; the spurious wakeup confuses Darwin's gdb.
Allow vm, task and thread operations on remote processes. The code to pick up
the remote process is in mach_sys_msg_trap(), so that any Mach service can
use it.
rename FPBASE to _FPBASE, so that we avoid polluting the user's
name space when e.g. <sys/ptrace.h> is included. Previously, the
PC symbol in mips/regnum.h would conflict with the declaration of
the external variable by the same name in termcap.h, as discovered
by the ``okheaders'' regression test.
