FreeBSD

I am not sure whether there’s someone who wants to pick up mono’s FreeBSD port. I personally do not want to do this :-) However it will be interesting if I have enough time to kill. And, of course, it will be good if it is released under a more loose license…

This is an experimental release which tend to exhibit the latest -CURRENT technologies, maintaining stablity and incorporating my improvements which has not been integrated into FreeBSD’s central repository.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD’s inetd are based on a same codebase. However, they have different features and OpenBSD have some features that FreeBSD is lacking at present. For example, per-interface binding, etc.

It seems that they are now replacing explicit XFree86-4-libraries to USE_XLIB and so. Is this a step dropping XFree86 and go XOrg? :-)

I don’t like lawyer much, however, we all have to respect law :-) Apple has released some of their code under a license called “APSL”, what’s that? To quote Robert Watson, a FreeBSD core team member, APSL was considered as something like GPL/LGPL, which is acceptable for standard-alone userspace tools, however, should be taken carefully on kernel aspect.

It seems that FreeBSD community has reviewed and committed one of my bigger patch on sbin/syslogd, which was primarily obtained from OpenBSD. These changes are more or less “sync with OpenBSD”, which will increase security performance of FreeBSD.

自从01年dillon commit之后一直就用着MAXUSERS 0。今天alu提到说MAXUSERS不合适的时候有可能会造成系统负荷能力下降，于是看了代码，发现MAXUSERS是根据内存大小算出来的，32-512之间。另外，实践证明MAXUSERS看来不能设置为2048(起不来)……

刚刚想睡觉的时候收到了commit mail:

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clement     2004/05/28 08:27:02 PDT

  FreeBSD ports repository
  Modified files:
    www/apache2          Makefile 
  Added files:
    www/apache2/files    patch-modules:ssl:ssl_engine_kernel.c 
  Log:
  - Import security fix from Apache CVS...
  * modules/ssl/ssl_engine_kernel.c (ssl_hook_UserCheck): Fix buffer
  overflow in FakeBasicAuth code if client's subject DN exceeds 6K in
  length (CVE CAN-2004-0488); switch to using apr-util base64 encoder
  functions.
  - ... and of course bump PORTREVISION.
  
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0488
  http://secunia.com/advisories/11534/
  
  Reported by:    Charles-Damien Orbello <tazma@cultdeadsheep.org>
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.178     +1 -0      ports/www/apache2/Makefile
  1.1       +39 -0     ports/www/apache2/files/patch-modules:ssl:ssl_engine_kernel.c (new)

Scott Long has named 4.10-RELEASE yesterday and now the source tree has been tagged. The long awaited release has included the lastest FreeBSD -STABLE improvements, security updates, stablity improvements, and so on.

It seems (still can’t access to the Internet right now, however, HTTP and cvsup works) that OpenBSD has imported gdb 6.1 into their source tree. I am not sure whether they did some hacks to the source repository (from cvsup result, there is not), but the result is really strange. It seems that the last import was done by using a “cvs add -rCYGNUS” and not “cvs import”…

I hope FreeBSD can import a newer gdb ASAP, as well as gcc 3.4 series.