svn commit: r255219 - in head: contrib/tcpdump lib/libc lib/libc/capability lib/libc/include lib/libc/sys lib/libprocstat sbin/dhclient sbin/hastd sys/amd64/linux32 sys/bsm sys/cddl/compat/opensola...

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 6 14:34:48 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 04:43:54AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:09:57AM +0000, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > Author: pjd
> > Date: Thu Sep  5 00:09:56 2013
> > New Revision: 255219
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255219
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Change the cap_rights_t type from uint64_t to a structure that we can extend
> >   in the future in a backward compatible (API and ABI) way.
> >   
> >   The cap_rights_t represents capability rights. We used to use one bit to
> >   represent one right, but we are running out of spare bits. Currently the new
> >   structure provides place for 114 rights (so 50 more than the previous
> >   cap_rights_t), but it is possible to grow the structure to hold at least 285
> >   rights, although we can make it even larger if 285 rights won't be enough.
> >   
> >   The structure definition looks like this:
> >   
> >   	struct cap_rights {
> >   		uint64_t	cr_rights[CAP_RIGHTS_VERSION + 2];
> >   	};
> 
> I believe this commit broke nvidia-driver.  Fix is trivial; however, I would
> have to use OSVERSION from Sep 3rd, since you forgot to update sys/param.h.

Bumped, thanks.

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