Kevin posted the details yesterday on downloading and running the X Test Suite for people who can help testing the upcoming Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 releases on as many...
Kevin posted the details yesterday on downloading and running the X Test Suite for people who can help testing the upcoming Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 releases on as many platforms and hardware combinations as possible. If you can help out, please see his message for instructions. This is also the public debut of the new X Test Suite, which is based on the VSW5 Test Suite which has long been part of the standards compliance certification process for the Unix ® 98 Workstation brand from...
Kevin posted the details yesterday on downloading and running the X Test Suite for people who can help testing the upcoming Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 releases on as many platforms and hardware combinations...
A few months ago I sent mail to Sun's dtrace and X11 internal mailing lists about something I'd been playing with: After trying to absorb as much as possible at...
A few months ago I sent mail to Sun's dtrace and X11 internal mailing lists about something I'd been playing with: After trying to absorb as much as possible at last week's dtrace classes, I sat down with the manual and tried things out for a bit to help it sink in before I forgot it all. One of the chapters I stumbled across was the one on adding your own probes to your own applications, which reminded me of some conversations I'd had with various people (Bart and Mahmood...
A few months ago I sent mail to Sun's dtrace and X11 internal mailing lists about something I'd been playing with: After trying to absorb as much as possible at last week's dtrace classes, I sat down...
Two comments on my last blog entry asked questions that I thought should be answered in a new entry so that it would be seen by more people, since I expect many...
Two comments on my last blog entry asked questions that I thought should be answered in a new entry so that it would be seen by more people, since I expect many people will want to know the answers. Laurent asked: And, in an area that concernes you more directly, whare is the current plan at Sun with those new versions? Will 6.9 or 7.0 make it in Solaris 10 at some point, or will it wait for Solaris 11? One of the reasons we (X.Org) are doing 6.9 and 7.0 from the same...
Two comments on my last blog entry asked questions that I thought should be answered in a new entry so that it would be seen by more people, since I expect many people will want to know the...
In just a little under 12 hours from when this is posted (at the end of the day on July 4 in Hawaii time) the first phase of code freezes begins for the Xorg...
In just a little under 12 hours from when this is posted (at the end of the day on July 4 in Hawaii time) the first phase of code freezes begins for the Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 release cycles. After this, new features will have to either get special permission from the release managers or wait until after the 6.9 and 7.0 releases ship (currently planned for the end of September). Features that add new files or changes to configuration scripts are less likely to be allowed than those...
In just a little under 12 hours from when this is posted (at the end of the day on July 4 in Hawaii time) the first phase of code freezes begins for the Xorg 6.9 and 7.0 release cycles. After...
You may have heared by now that Solaris 10 has signed binaries, you probably have questions about what this really means. I was one of the engineers who...
You may have heared by now that Solaris 10 has signed binaries, you probably have questions about what this really means. I was one of the engineers who designed and developed the framework that made this possible. What is it NOT ? It is not an attempt to lock out 3rd party kernel module or other code from running on Solaris or OpenSolaris distributions. In fact it isn't really intended for use by Sun at all, with one exception that applies to Solaris the binary product but...
You may have heared by now that Solaris 10 has signed binaries, you probably have questions about what this really means. I was one of the engineers who designed and developed the framework that...
I wrote on OpenSolaris opening day about much of the crypto code being missing, I'm pleased to say that the the OpenSolaris torrents now have an archive of...
I wrote on OpenSolaris opening day about much of the crypto code being missing, I'm pleased to say that the the OpenSolaris torrents now have an archive of most[1] of the missing crypto and crypto related source from the ON consolidation ofOpenSolaris that wasn't present on opening day. It includes: IPsec, theGSS & SASL frameworks and plugins, Kerberos, OpenSSL, OpenSSH,PKCS#11 and the crypto algorithm implementations for user and kernel.It also includes some things that were...
I wrote on OpenSolaris opening day about much of the crypto code being missing, I'm pleased to say that the the OpenSolaris torrents now have an archive of most[1] of the missing crypto and...
During the development of Solaris 10 a number the engineers,managers and directors in the Solaris security group gave presentationson the security features of...
During the development of Solaris 10 a number the engineers,managers and directors in the Solaris security group gave presentationson the security features of Solaris 10 to customers under NDA or aspart of the Platinum Beta program or visits to the Executive BriefingCentre. We often customised these presentations for the specificaudience. We also gave Solaris 10 training to our field engineers.I had to give such a presenation, obviously not not under NDA sinceSolaris 10...
During the development of Solaris 10 a number the engineers,managers and directors in the Solaris security group gave presentationson the security features of Solaris 10 to customers under NDA or...
A bug came into our group today complaining of a memory leak in X. The customer and the support engineer they'd worked with had actually done a good job of...
A bug came into our group today complaining of a memory leak in X. The customer and the support engineer they'd worked with had actually done a good job of narrowing down a simple repeatable test case: #!/bin/sh while : ; do /usr/openwin/bin/xterm & sleep 1 kill -KILL `pgrep xterm` done They had also run Xsun with libumem preloaded and had captured the stack trace that was making repeated allocations and not freeing them: After 7 minutes: > ::umausers 1040384 bytes for 254...
A bug came into our group today complaining of a memory leak in X. The customer and the support engineer they'd worked with had actually done a good job of narrowing down a simple repeatable...
There a few frameworks in Solaris that have configuration files that store the paths to shared libaries that need to be dlopen()'d at runtime. Prior to Solaris...
There a few frameworks in Solaris that have configuration files that store the paths to shared libaries that need to be dlopen()'d at runtime. Prior to Solaris 7 this was easy you just stored the path the the file. When Solaris 7 introduced 64bit SPARC userland libraries some of these frameworks already existed and thus needed a solution that allowed a single config file to be used for both 32 and 64 bit libraries. The PAM framework (libpam)has an admin editable config file...
There a few frameworks in Solaris that have configuration files that store the paths to shared libaries that need to be dlopen()'d at runtime. Prior to Solaris 7 this was easy you just stored the path...
