[request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR #6807179 (ksh93 does unneccesary |libc::getpwnam()| lookups for ~(modifer)pattern patterns)

2009-02-25 Thread casper....@sun.com
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: This is a sponsor request to fix CR #6807179 (ksh93 does unneccesary |libc::getpwnam()| lookups for ~(modifer)pattern patterns) My contributor ID is OS0025. Webrev can be found at http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gisburn/ksh93_integration_cr_6807179_001/ (matching

[request-sponsor] BUG 5007142 Add ntohll and htonll to sys/byteorder.h

2008-02-14 Thread casper....@sun.com
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:04:57PM +0530, Rishi M Nair wrote: --- byteorder.h.orig Tue Oct 2 19:44:36 2007 +++ byteorder.h Thu Feb 14 17:53:39 2008 @@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ #include asm/byteorder.h #endif +#ifndef htonll +#ifdef _BIG_ENDIAN +#define htonll(x) (x) +#define

[request-sponsor] Request Sponsor Bug : 6638873 :usermod -m could optimize the move

2008-02-12 Thread casper....@sun.com
Avinash Joshi wrote: I just wanted to know how to rename a directory. For moving the dir, there is a built in function ret = move_dir(pstruct-pw_dir, dir, logname); which is defined in usr/src/cmd/oamuser/user/movedir.c Is there a similar function that renames a directory? If the new

[request-sponsor] Request Sponsor for 6613349

2008-01-29 Thread casper....@sun.com
My personal stance on this one is that it'd be a good idea to report the mountpoint instead of the device major/minor. What did you have in mind ? Here's what I was thinking: --- a/usr/src/uts/common/os/exec.c Mon Oct 08 20:24:50 2007 -0700 +++ b/usr/src/uts/common/os/exec.c Fri

[request-sponsor] request-sponsor(BUG ID(s): 6569630,6604676

2008-01-24 Thread casper....@sun.com
Bug ID Number1 : *6569630* synopsis: Vi cannot append text to named buffers category : *utility s*ubcategory : *editor *description : In Single Unix Specification version 2 and 3 vi is required that if a named buffer is specified with an upper-case letter, then the text from a yank or

[request-sponsor] 6344436 FIXed

2008-01-03 Thread casper....@sun.com
/solarisws/usr/src/cmd/mv/mv.c this problem exist for unix domain sockets since 'mknod' cannot be used to create socket files. fix is, to check whether the file is a unix domain socket or not. note :value for S_IFSOCK = c000(hex) 'socketfile'

[request-sponsor] Can this be a fix for Bug-6490935?

2007-12-27 Thread casper....@sun.com
Hi Carol, Now , I have come to know that Ctrl-D doesnot generate a signal but signals EOF. So , i made the following changes in the code again. * char *getresponse(char *oldval) { char

[request-sponsor] [ksh93-integration-discuss] Requesting sponsor for CR #6451262 (RFE:

2007-09-01 Thread casper....@sun.com
On 9/1/07, Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org wrote: Richard L. Hamilton wrote: This is a sponsor request to implement the RFE/CR #6451262 (RFE: /usr/bin/sleep should support floating-point values - considering that /usr/gnu/bin/sleep already does that, how important it is to

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-05 Thread casper....@sun.com
Note that SA_RESTART must be set; otherwise dd from a pipe or other slow device will return an error condition. I also like Casper's suggestion to use sprintf and write to stderr, since sprintf is now async-signal-safe. Note also that there are three gettext()s of constant strings; these

[request-sponsor] Request Sponsor for: 6536837 (add -z option to zlogin)

2007-03-25 Thread casper....@sun.com
I'd like to request a sponsor for this enhancement: === *Synopsis*: zlogin: Add a -z zonename option http://bt2ws.central.sun.com/CrPrint?id=6536837 *Change Request ID*: 6536837 *Synopsis*: zlogin: Add a -z zonename option Product: solaris Category: opensolaris Subcategory:

[request-sponsor] Request Sponsor for: 6536837 (add -z option to zlogin)

2007-03-25 Thread casper....@sun.com
* But I am suggesting we add a -z option so that: zlogin -z THEHOST [other commands] ...is equivalent to: zlogin THEHOST [other commands] How are you supposed to make this work? How do you propose to make it work, given that the following should work: zlogin -z host

[request-sponsor] Request Sponsor for: 6536837 (add -z option to zlogin)

2007-03-25 Thread casper....@sun.com
* But I am suggesting we add a -z option so that: zlogin -z THEHOST [other commands] ...is equivalent to: zlogin THEHOST [other commands] How are you supposed to make this work? How do you propose to make it work, given that the following should work: zlogin -z host

[request-sponsor] 1218270 *cat*: cat reports errors in a non-standard fashion

2006-11-07 Thread casper....@sun.com
hello, i'm looking for a sponsor for the CR mentioned in the subject. a patch can be found here: http://itanic.attenuate.org/~river/1218270.diff my contributor agreement # is OS0050. I'll take it (this behaviour just happened to bite me again yesterday) Casper

[shell-discuss] Re: [request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR# 6488593(/etc/profile should set TMPDIR to /tmp/$LOGNAME/) ...

2006-11-04 Thread casper....@sun.com
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: Yeah, you'll notice that if you try to su to root and run installers that run pkgadd internally. I use this method, and the StarOffice 8 installer failed quite mysteriously until I realized it was just an instance of that problem and reset TMPDIR to something

[shell-discuss] Re: [request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR#6488593(/etc/profile should set TMPDIR to /tmp/$LOGNAME/) ...

2006-11-04 Thread casper....@sun.com
I disagree. The flat layout in /tmp for all temporary files of all users is very very annoying for both admins and users. I doubt mode 1777 is insecure (yes, you can always craft a case where it goes wrong...). Why? I hard ever look in /tmp. OTOH, GNOME already dumps 3 or four temporary

[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

2006-11-03 Thread casper....@sun.com
Assuming we do steps 1 and 2 above, do we get into any problems with POSIX compliance if the default basic privilege set does not include PRIV_SYS_SYNC? There is no such thing as a default basic set. There's a basic set and there's the default set users get when they login; they are

[request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR# 6488593 (/etc/profile should set TMPDIR to /tmp/$LOGNAME/) ...

2006-11-02 Thread casper....@sun.com
Darren J Moffat wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! Requesting sponsor for CR# 6488593 (/etc/profile should set TMPDIR to /tmp/$LOGNAME/) - patch is included in the RFE... This will I believe need an ARC case since it is a change in default behaviour. It also should be done for all

[request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR# 6488593 (/etc/profile should set TMPDIR to /tmp/$LOGNAME/) ...

2006-11-02 Thread casper....@sun.com
Yeah, you'll notice that if you try to su to root and run installers that run pkgadd internally. I use this method, and the StarOffice 8 installer failed quite mysteriously until I realized it was just an instance of that problem and reset TMPDIR to something else. This, unfortunately, kills

[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

2006-10-30 Thread casper....@sun.com
Why, other than the returning an error we already have 5 such privileges in the basic set. Now in each of those cases (proc_info, proc_session, proc_fork, proc_exec, file_link_any) there is a way to return an error for sync(2) but there is for 'lockfs -f'. And it's exactly what the basic

libast.so and /usr/lib/extendedFILE.so / was: Re: [request-sponsor] telnet(1) cannot handle more than 15 fds

2006-05-13 Thread casper....@sun.com
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: Due to the 32-bit ABI's stdio file descriptor limit, an interposer is being used to F_DUPFD non-stdio file descriptors to 256 and above. This mitigates a problem with 3rd party modules and plugins that use fopen(3C), et al. streams in processes such as Apache HTTP

[request-sponsor] Re: 6317146: syseventd refuses to use custom configuration files on nfs v

2005-12-12 Thread casper....@sun.com
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:18:50AM -0700, J?rgen Keil wrote: See http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6317146 The workaround section contains the suggested fix. I've got this one. This request for sponser can now be canceled. snv_28 includes a fix for bugid