Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-08-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roger A. Faulkner roger.faulk...@oracle.com wrote: In addition to existing in GNU/Linux/BSD manual pages, many of these functions are also specified in the new POSIX standard: IEEE Std 1003.1(TM)-2008 The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications,

Re: PSARC/2010/304 Deliver Socket Configuration in Fragments

2010-07-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Garrett D'Amore garr...@damore.org wrote: name of the packages delivering the file. For example, system/kernel would deliver etc/sock2path.d/system%2Fkernel. Its not really architectural, but encoding %2F for / seems kind of ugly. That said, its probably the best option that

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-07-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roger A. Faulkner roger.faulk...@oracle.com wrote: === #include stdio.h ssize_t getdelim(char **restrict, size_t *restrict, int, FILE *restrict); ssize_t getline(char **restrict, size_t *restrict,

Re: Remove binary symlinks from /etc [PSARC/2010/289 FastTrack timeout 07/30/2010]

2010-07-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Dennis pet...@sac.sfbay.sun.com wrote: The following interfaces in /etc will be deleted: autopush - ../sbin/autopush cfgadm - ../usr/sbin/cfgadm clri - ../usr/sbin/clri cron - ../usr/sbin/cron dcopy -

Re: 2010/169 EOF lx brand

2010-06-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: It would be interesting to know how many people use this feature and whether the comunity is against this change. Yes, it would. I personally have not tried lx branded zones. But I have used it as a point while advocating/evangelizing. Many

Re: 2010/169 EOF lx brand

2010-06-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: You get to vote with your actions, not your words. Well said, as this is currently the biggest problem Oracle has. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de

Re: 2010/169 EOF lx brand

2010-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nils Goroll sl...@schokola.de wrote: I just noticed the commit msg for this case. I understand the ARC case is unpublished, but would it be possible to get some basic background information about it? It would be interesting to know how many people use this feature and whether the comunity is

Re: Username length [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout 5/27/2010]

2010-05-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat darren.mof...@oracle.com wrote: On 20/05/2010 21:37, Don Cragun wrote: I'm not disagreeing with the move to 32 bytes. I just believe that the ARC needs to make it clear that doing so is a conscious decision to break the ABIs and that it does not set a precedent for other

Re: Username legnth [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout 2/27/2010]

2010-05-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roland Mainz roland.ma...@nrubsig.org wrote: I would give this case (if I could) a +1 with two minor changes: 1. useradd should clamp the string to 32bytes but _validate_ that the input username doesn't get any multibyte characters cut-off in the middle. As we are in the 21st century, we

Re: Username length [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout 5/27/2010]

2010-05-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Don Cragun dcra...@sonic.net wrote: http://www.opengroup.org/csq/view.mhtml?norationale=1noreferences=1RID=sun%2FSD1%2F7 specifies that the minimum value of LOGIN_NAME_MAX is 9 and the maximum value of LOGIN_NAME_MAX is 9. So, making the changes proposed in this case require one of the

Re: lofi(7D) in non global zones [PSARC/2010/144 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2010]

2010-04-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren Reed darren.r...@sun.com wrote: Because auto-mounting a filesystem from a USB stick implies that the system somehow trusts the structure of the data on the USB stick. As has been proven in the past with security exploits relating to auto-execution of USB stick files, they are a medium

Re: lofi(7D) in non global zones [PSARC/2010/144 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2

2010-04-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: Is the implementation of hsfs therefore known to be robust against kernel crashes due to a corrupted filesystem, or is it simply that the demand is so high for lofi plus hsfs? What about udfs - if one wants to use CD images, presumably one might

Re: GNOME 2.30 [PSARC/2010/143 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2010]

2010-04-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: So what work needs to be funded in the desktop consolidation and other consolidations to allow the move away from HAL to upower/udisks ? The X consolidation is already planning the Xorg updates needed to move input