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Nik Clayton
d0667a22d9 In <199908042059.PAA14626@free.pcs>, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> The route(4) manpage says:
>
>    User processes can obtain information about the routing entry to a spe-
>    cific destination by using a RTM_GET message, or by reading the /dev/kmem
>    device, or by issuing a getkerninfo(2) system call.
>
> IMHO, the above sentence should probably be altered by replacing the
> first comma with a period, and throwing away the rest of it.

No one's objected, so I've made this change.  This sort of fixes docs/12220,
by removing the reference to the undocumented getkerninfo(2) call.  So I'll
close the PR as well.

PR:             docs/12220
1999-08-12 23:06:28 +00:00
Nik Clayton
6ef8f5893d transparant -> transparent
PR:             docs/8472
Submitted by:   Craig Leres <leres@ee.lbl.gov>
1999-08-12 23:03:34 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
2825e76714 Add support for the Am79C978. (AMD PCHome/PCI Ethernet adapter)
See: http://www.amd.com/products/npd/overview/homenetworking/intro.html

PR: kern/12275
Submitted by: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
1999-08-10 01:03:51 +00:00
Chris Costello
e861b0f57e Fix a few typos and misspellings, grabbed from PR#8472 1999-08-09 14:31:04 +00:00
Chris Costello
b6df42f810 Remove reference to nonexistant man page `da(9)' 1999-08-09 02:35:55 +00:00
Greg Lehey
b13c5ac72b Update to reflect recent changes. 1999-08-07 09:27:25 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
955f41c518 Remove empty "SEE ALSO" section.
PR:		docs/12990
Submitted by:	Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
1999-08-06 05:51:07 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
0983f2b022 English fixes: consistent spacing after periods, "userland", not "user land",
other typos, ~four grammar gnits, an ironic case of incorrect
               parallelization, bad capitalization, an incorrect use of the
               infamous slash ('/'), and an unclear sentence.
1999-08-02 04:00:33 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
4ac29fd62e Bruce noted that the use of err(), fixed to errx() in the last commit,
did not specify an exit code.  This implies the use of either a hand-
rolled err() (Bruce's suggestion) or a random error code (my suggestion),
both of which are against the style guidelines.  This commit specifies
the correct error code (implicitly).  This also changes the error message
to be a little more helpful.
1999-08-02 03:18:17 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
b787fc933a Use errx() instead of err() in example code calling err() after strtol(). 1999-07-31 15:04:37 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
7ac35fc77b Remove troff formatting directive from the first line of the man page,
since it is no longer needed.

Pointed out by bde before I had a chance to fix it
1999-07-31 02:33:40 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
703b0715de Convert a table of function keys into mdoc format so that they
format properly.  Previously the table came out all garbled up.
1999-07-30 14:12:12 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
c809f5b9e0 Fix some typos. 1999-07-30 12:59:13 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
0ef6a34a34 Use the .At macro to reference versions of AT&T UNIX. 1999-07-30 12:52:21 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
15317dd875 Alter the behavior of sys/kern/subr_bus.c:device_print_child()
- device_print_child() either lets the BUS_PRINT_CHILD
	  method produce the entire device announcement message or
	  it prints "foo0: not found\n"

Alter sys/kern/subr_bus.c:bus_generic_print_child() to take on
the previous behavior of device_print_child() (printing the
"foo0: <FooDevice 1.1>" bit of the announce message.)

Provide bus_print_child_header() and bus_print_child_footer()
to actually print the output for bus_generic_print_child().
These functions should be used whenever possible (unless you can
just use bus_generic_print_child())

The BUS_PRINT_CHILD method now returns int instead of void.

Modify everything else that defines or uses a BUS_PRINT_CHILD
method to comply with the above changes.

	- Devices are 'on' a bus, not 'at' it.
	- If a custom BUS_PRINT_CHILD method does the same thing
	  as bus_generic_print_child(), use bus_generic_print_child()
	- Use device_get_nameunit() instead of both
	  device_get_name() and device_get_unit()
	- All BUS_PRINT_CHILD methods return the number of
	  characters output.

Reviewed by: dfr, peter
1999-07-29 01:03:04 +00:00
Nik Clayton
c4994073bb Remove the quotes from the kernel configuration "options" lines, to
reflect actual usage.

PR:             docs/12652
Submitted by:   Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
1999-07-27 18:21:17 +00:00
Bruce Evans
b686153c38 Fixed disordering in previous commit.
Fixed overflow at column 80 in rev.1.96.
1999-07-27 06:52:46 +00:00
Brian Somers
51f80ae148 Add a default ppp.conf (mode 600).
Originally submitted by: Wayne Self <wself@cdrom.com>

Allow a ppp startup option in rc.conf.

Adjust sysinstall so that it appends to the end of ppp.conf
and uses the generated profile to start ppp in auto mode on
boot.

Submitted by: Josef L. Karthauser <joe@uk.FreeBSD.org>
1999-07-26 10:49:37 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
d952728d76 Typo: assember -> assembler 1999-07-26 03:47:41 +00:00
Bill Paul
691c152864 This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast
ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip.
There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX
card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model.

The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that
receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer
copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha.
Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms.
The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer
mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which
can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor
for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion
queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128
descriptors and the receive ring has 256.

This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus
so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF
and hardware multicast filtering is included.
1999-07-25 04:32:50 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
a2e3ae34eb Document dhcp flags.
Submitted by:	"Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>
1999-07-16 09:22:01 +00:00
Nik Clayton
5bf6ab8369 Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 21:02:10 +00:00
Nik Clayton
fbc400a67a Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:50:10 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
d95d7c87bf Use .Xr to xref pccardd(8). 1999-07-12 19:24:53 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
ac8011f83a Add portlint(1) and sort "SEE ALSO"'s. 1999-07-12 07:49:28 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
6b4c07361e - FreeBSD.ORG => FreeBSD.org
- Don't discourage people from using "make readmes"

 - Document WRKDIRPREFIX.
1999-07-12 02:33:47 +00:00
Bill Paul
3ebb090530 This commit adds driver support for the SysKonnect SK-984x series
gigabit ethernet adapters. This includes two single port cards
(single mode and multimode fiber) and two dual port cards (also single
mode and multimode fiber). SysKonnect is currently the only
vendor with a dual port gigabit ethernet NIC.

The ports on dual port adapters are treated as separate network
interfaces. Thus, if you have an SK-9844 dual port SX card, you
should have both sk0 and sk1 interfaces attached. Dual port cards
are implemented using two XMAC II chips connected to a single
SysKonnect GEnesis controller. Hence, dual port cards are really
one PCI device, as opposed to two separate PCI devices connected
through a PCI to PCI bridge. Note that SysKonnect's drivers use
the two ports for failover purposes rather that as two separate
interfaces, plus they don't support jumbo frames. This applies to
their Linux driver too. :)

Support is provided for hardware multicast filtering, BPF and
jumbo frames. The SysKonnect cards support TCP checksum offload
however this feature is not currently enabled (hopefully it will
be once we get checksum offload support).

There are still a few things that need to be implemeted, like
the ability to communicate with the on-board LM80 voltage/temperature
monitor, but I wanted to get the driver under CVS control and into
-current so people could bang on it.

A big thanks for SysKonnect for making all their programming info
for these cards (and for their FDDI and token ring cards) available
without NDA (see www.syskonnect.com).
1999-07-09 04:30:09 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
bd17e46e55 Properly document /etc/defaults/rc.conf and rc_conf_files.
Submitted by:		Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
1999-07-09 01:47:00 +00:00
Tatsumi Hosokawa
07c50a3b6b Added pccard_conf parameter. 1999-07-07 02:01:57 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
6b5ca0d83e Rename bpfilter to bpf. 1999-07-06 19:23:32 +00:00
Kazutaka YOKOTA
e92d69c442 List avaiable function keys. 1999-07-06 13:13:47 +00:00
Tatsumi Hosokawa
12061cb940 Added $pccardd_flags. 1999-07-06 12:17:59 +00:00
Nik Clayton
f591fcd118 Clarify static_routes variable's meaning
PR:             docs/12302
Submitted by:   Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
Reviewed by:    nik
1999-07-05 23:05:25 +00:00
Kazutaka YOKOTA
5e09bef3bf Reflect recent changes in syscons and vga. 1999-07-05 10:03:05 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
d30b1794da Flesh out VOP_ADVLOCK.9 with a description of the available flags
Sync vnode.9 with the definitions in <sys/vnode.h>

Reviewed by:	Doug Rabson
1999-06-30 12:02:52 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
5d70612b3f Fix some typos and do some minor mdoc cleanup. 1999-06-27 02:38:46 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
084d5338d6 Add Pro/100+ (i82559) to the list of supported products.
Approved by:	dg
1999-06-25 16:48:56 +00:00
John-Mark Gurney
0b60724004 fix the links to the bitstring man page..
fix wording in man page, through != to
1999-06-25 04:51:49 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
878c59a1f6 Fix one error in my previous commit. The .Rv macro is not valid
for section 9 man pages.
1999-06-24 00:59:40 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
2c5eecfa59 Update mdoc.samples(7) to reflect that section 9 is a valid man page
section.  Update some descriptions of the various sections to
reflect that they are valid for section 9 man pages.  Add a table
of section numbers and what they are used for.
1999-06-24 00:18:46 +00:00
Nick Hibma
6dcd4819f1 Add man page for device_quiet and friends 1999-06-22 18:09:54 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
3c218dea5c typo: Adviseroty -> Advisory 1999-06-22 02:34:47 +00:00
Nick Hibma
66efee0151 Clarified info on X release 3.3.1.
Submitted/Reviewed by: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
1999-06-18 16:53:33 +00:00
Nick Hibma
6979450036 Update the comments on values than can be returned by DEVICE_PROBE.
DEVICE_PROBE can return priorities.

Reviewed by:	Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
1999-06-17 19:22:12 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
145da7ad10 Document the IMPLEMENTATION NOTES section since we have a number of
man pages that use it.

PR:	10659
1999-06-15 19:03:54 +00:00
Bruce Evans
e343fb02c3 Updated the BUGS section. BREAK is now implemented.
Don't document non-bugs in the BUGS section, or anywhere else.  It
is not a bug to drop data when overloaded.  The compile-time tuning
options turned out to be not very useful, and aren't supported
offically.

Documented the not so new option CY_PCI_FASTINTR.
1999-06-14 15:10:35 +00:00
Bruce Evans
39fbb9465e Fixed previous fix (dad -> rda via rad). 1999-06-07 16:36:41 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
b5d512fa68 Correct typos.
PR:		docs/12068
Submitted by:	Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@io.com>
1999-06-07 05:18:24 +00:00
Matt Jacob
8ead41413c Add a clarification in the man page suggesting that some tapes
(QIC) written under 2.X may not be easily read under the current
driver without explicitly setting to variable mode or to the blocksize
these tapes were written under 2.X with.

PR: 6681
1999-06-06 23:23:50 +00:00
Bruce Evans
20891aba11 Fixed bitrot in synopsis (a missing include). 1999-06-02 16:33:22 +00:00
Nik Clayton
10edb73877 "Tn DNS" -> ".Tn DNS"
PR:             docs/10474
Submitted by:   Yoshiteru Kageyama <yt-kage@cb3.so-net.ne.jp>
1999-05-29 13:08:54 +00:00
Nik Clayton
ffea31c78f Fix a couple of typos related to wfd.
PR:             docs/10624
Submitted by:   Joe Abley <jabley@buddha.clear.net.nz>
1999-05-29 13:08:12 +00:00
Nik Clayton
0bf3e334e5 Description of LOCKLEAF said "inode" when it should have said "vnode".
PR:             docs/11596
Submitted by:   Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org>
1999-05-29 13:00:40 +00:00
Nik Clayton
0de3e1544e Note that using the dirent.d_type member is non-portable, and might
fail on some filesystems.

PR:             docs/11645
Submitted by:   Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de>
1999-05-29 12:59:51 +00:00
Nik Clayton
2e3912929b Fix the typos, and add new entries (like the /etc/periodic/ and /etc/mail/
directories).

PR:             docs/11695
Submitted by:   Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
1999-05-29 12:58:44 +00:00
Bill Paul
74e5e304a4 Fix support for the PNIC II. Earlier I had assumed that the PNIC II was
similar to the PNIC I (supported by the pn driver). In fact, it's really
a Macronix 98715A with wake on LAN support added. According to LinkSys,
the PNIC II was jointly developed by Lite-On and Macronis. I get the
feeling Macronix did most of the work. (The datasheet has the Macronix
logo on it, and is in fact nearly identical to the 98715 datasheet, except
for the extra wake on LAN registers.) In any case, the PNIC II works just
fine with the Macronix driver.

The changes are:

- Move PCI ID for the PNIC II from the pn driver to the mx driver.
- Mention PNIC II support in mx.4.
- Mention PNIC II support in RELNOTES.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT.
1999-05-28 18:43:25 +00:00
Doug Rabson
86238261ee Document device_add_child_ordered(). 1999-05-28 09:38:25 +00:00
Kazutaka YOKOTA
d05eb9df9a Add description on configuration options and the EXAMPLE section. 1999-05-28 04:33:20 +00:00
Guy Helmer
67ea20ed38 Where the fstab page discusses filesystem options, add a reference
to the '-o' flag in the mount(8) and filesystem specific
mount pages where information can be obtained about the available
options.

PR:		docs/10108
1999-05-28 01:54:38 +00:00
Guy Helmer
b5fcc9783f There are six bit fields in the flags now, not four.
PR:		i386/10328
1999-05-27 02:41:06 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
00214ba3c4 Spell vp0 correctly. Add id.
PR:		docs/10500 (Masaru Tsunoda [3]masaru@pokemon.to)
1999-05-25 17:34:07 +00:00
Bill Paul
33b3ee3898 - Fix up some comments in if_wi.c (no code changes)
- Mention that the 6Mbps turbo adapters are supported in HARDWARE.TXT
  and RELNOTES.TXT and the wi.4 man page
- Mention turbo adapters in the wicontrol.8 man page and provide a
  complete table of available transmit speed settings
1999-05-22 16:12:54 +00:00
Bruce Evans
6531f8e695 Fixed disordering in previous commit. 1999-05-22 07:54:38 +00:00
Bill Paul
13c655ab1a Fix a couple of small grammatical errors. 1999-05-21 14:59:48 +00:00
Bill Paul
ab431312b4 This commit adds driver support for PCI fast ethernet cards based on the
ADMtek AL981 "Comet" chipset. The AL981 is yet another DEC tulip clone,
except with simpler receive filter options. The AL981 has a built-in
transceiver, power management support, wake on LAN and flow control.
This chip performs extremely well; it's on par with the ASIX chipset
in terms of speed, which is pretty good (it can do 11.5MB/sec with TCP
easily).

I would have committed this driver sooner, except I ran into one problem
with the AL981 that required a workaround. When the chip is transmitting
at full speed, it will sometimes wedge if you queue a series of packets
that wrap from the end of the transmit descriptor list back to the
beginning. I can't explain why this happens, and none of the other tulip
clones behave this way. The workaround this is to just watch for the end
of the transmit ring and make sure that al_start() breaks out of its
packet queuing loop and waiting until the current batch of transmissions
completes before wrapping back to the start of the ring. Fortunately, this
does not significantly impact transmit performance.

This is one of those things that takes weeks of analysis just to come
up with two or three lines of code changes.
1999-05-21 04:37:48 +00:00
Kazutaka YOKOTA
798a0514f5 Remove bio/cam/net/tty labels.
OKed by: peter
1999-05-20 09:56:18 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
affafdd8ea * Remove "'s in the synopsis as config(8) does not require them any more.
* Optional bits now shown as such.

Submitted by:	Philippe Charnier & bde
1999-05-19 22:08:01 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
4af4aeae4b Show the usage of flags in the synopsis.
(I couldn't figure out how to suround `flags _flags_' by []'s :-( )
1999-05-19 02:30:13 +00:00
Pierre Beyssac
6237d74098 Typo.
PR:		doc/11582
1999-05-17 22:49:46 +00:00
Steve Price
5e025bcf86 s/cF/nF/ in a couple of places.
PR:		10841
Submitted by:	Kaneda Hiloshi <vanitas@ma3.seikyou.ne.jp>
1999-05-16 23:51:10 +00:00
Matthew Hunt
e1bd61530f This needs to be "at atkbdc?" rather than "at isa?". It's correct
in GENERIC and LINT, which is why I only needed four reboots to figure
out why my keyboard wasn't keyboarding.
1999-05-16 20:48:21 +00:00
Alexander Langer
b2e3e4382d Removed extraneous comma in xrefs. 1999-05-14 21:03:23 +00:00
Alexander Langer
c2a44ea9e0 Added missing comma in xrefs. 1999-05-14 21:03:11 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
50711a4d96 Refer to kget(8) instead of dset(8).
PR:		docs/11702
Submitted by:	Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
1999-05-14 05:16:18 +00:00
Michael Haro
476702b3c4 s/file it possible/file if possible/ 1999-05-11 01:19:34 +00:00
Bruce Evans
09b30ad757 Fixed disordering in previous commit. 1999-05-10 03:51:07 +00:00
Nick Hibma
4e51b9ac7c Add the USB Mass Storage manual page 1999-05-09 19:35:51 +00:00
Kenneth D. Merry
c85c3a7452 The 2930U2 and 3950U2 are supported by the Adaptec driver. 1999-05-08 21:43:28 +00:00
Kenneth D. Merry
acea824638 Devices are hardwired with "unit 0", not "lun 0" as was in these man pages.
Also, update the pass(4) man page to indicate that some CCBs must be
sent through the xpt(4) device and cannot be sent through a pass device.

PR:		8826
1999-05-08 21:28:18 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
3a56f5a495 Fix confusing sentence, the PR noticed the sentence, I rewrote the sentence.
PR:		docs/11257
Submitted by:	Motomichi Matsuzaki <mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp>
1999-05-06 20:51:31 +00:00
Bruce Evans
7d56f04342 Don't forget to install crash.8 after moving it. 1999-05-06 00:01:48 +00:00
Chris Timmons
1e58fe3903 Fix a typo (wi. -> wi.4)
Submitted by: Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net>
1999-05-05 12:54:50 +00:00
Bill Paul
31a08ab08e Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA
adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol
utility to manipulate some of the card parameters.

This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light
library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly
because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross).
The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF
library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has
just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone
with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would
have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary
too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary
HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.)

Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have
only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on
BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with
an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results
to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
5a498f21b6 Correct sd', st' -> da', sa'; add xref to scsi(4); remove xref
to nca(4).

PR:		docs/11493
Submitted by:	"Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
1999-05-05 04:01:40 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
6d790debd1 Make `ed0' example match reality.
Merge `ed1' and `ed2' examples as we don't ship with an `ed1' any more we
yet, the example of extra flags could be useful to someone.
1999-05-04 21:04:01 +00:00
Guy Helmer
3d024698f1 Make "\n" appear in cample C code.
PR:		docs/10708
1999-05-04 21:03:22 +00:00
Guy Helmer
ded07bf848 Use Cd macro for SYNOPSIS.
PR:		docs/10495
1999-05-04 20:49:12 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
c1986d3c33 Add $Id$ 1999-05-02 05:43:43 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
652627f040 Missed a ref to /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk 1999-05-02 05:04:26 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
9486cf9992 * Alpha's do crashdumps too. (move manpage to arch-neutral home)
* s/i386/alpha/g  < man8.alpha/MAKEDEV.8  (someone that knows the Alpha
  platform please remove obivious i386 bogons)
1999-05-02 00:37:39 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
8d8ba5df23 Don't install i386 specific manpage on the Alpha -- install Alpha specfic
ones instead.
1999-05-02 00:13:44 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
2038017be6 Minor punctuation/grammar nits. 1999-04-30 13:12:44 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
d37ed5a03a Add a new "file" to procfs: "rlimit" which shows the resource limits for
the process.

PR:		11342
Submitted by:	Adrian Chadd adrian@freebsd.org
Reviewed by:	phk
1999-04-30 13:04:21 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
d732587c28 Fix a bunch typos, one fix of which is from docs/10794 1999-04-30 06:37:16 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
2693c8b95a The bsd.port.mk has moved. 1999-04-29 21:41:11 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
929f3023d7 Correct typo.
PR:		docs/11378
Submitted by:	Martin Kammerhofer <dada@balu.kfunigraz.ac.at>
1999-04-29 08:01:25 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
37bad16d8b sd -> da
st -> sa

This file is out-of-date in other ways as well, but these are pretty big
changes.
1999-04-29 02:12:08 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
75c1354190 This Implements the mumbled about "Jail" feature.
This is a seriously beefed up chroot kind of thing.  The process
is jailed along the same lines as a chroot does it, but with
additional tough restrictions imposed on what the superuser can do.

For all I know, it is safe to hand over the root bit inside a
prison to the customer living in that prison, this is what
it was developed for in fact:  "real virtual servers".

Each prison has an ip number associated with it, which all IP
communications will be coerced to use and each prison has its own
hostname.

Needless to say, you need more RAM this way, but the advantage is
that each customer can run their own particular version of apache
and not stomp on the toes of their neighbors.

It generally does what one would expect, but setting up a jail
still takes a little knowledge.

A few notes:

   I have no scripts for setting up a jail, don't ask me for them.

   The IP number should be an alias on one of the interfaces.

   mount a /proc in each jail, it will make ps more useable.

   /proc/<pid>/status tells the hostname of the prison for
   jailed processes.

   Quotas are only sensible if you have a mountpoint per prison.

   There are no privisions for stopping resource-hogging.

   Some "#ifdef INET" and similar may be missing (send patches!)

If somebody wants to take it from here and develop it into
more of a "virtual machine" they should be most welcome!

Tools, comments, patches & documentation most welcome.

Have fun...

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1999-04-28 11:38:52 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
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1999-04-25 17:08:50 +00:00
Peter Wemm
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