We’re seeing blogs about the Solaris 11.4 Beta show up through different channels like Twitter and Facebook which means you might have missed some of these, so we thought it would be good do a round-up. This also means you might have already seen some of them but hopefully there are some nice new ones among them.
- Glenn Faden wrote about:
- Cindy Swearingen wrote about the Data Management Features
- Enrico Perla wrote about libc:malloc meets ADIHEAP
- Thorsten Mühlmann wrote a few nice ones recently:
- Eli Kleinman wrote a pretty complete set of blogs on Analytics/StatsStore:
- Andrew Watkins wrote about Setting up Sendmail / SASL to handle SMTP AUTH
- Marcel Hofstetter wrote about:
- Rod Evans wrote about elfdiff
- And for those interested in linker and ELF related improvements/changes/details Ali Bahrami published a very complete set of blogs:
- kldd: ldd Style Analysis For Solaris Kernel Modules – The new kldd ELF utility brings ldd style analysis to kernel modules.
- Core File Enhancements for elfdump – Solaris 11.4 comes with a number of enhancements that allow the elfdump utility to display a wealth of information that was previously hidden in Solaris core files. Best of all, this comes without a significant increase in core file size.
- ELF Program Header Names – Starting with Solaris 11.4, program headers in Solaris ELF objects have explicit names associated with them. These names are used by libproc, elfdump, elfedit, pmap, pmadvise, and mdb to eliminate some of the guesswork that goes into looking at process mappings.
- ELF Section Compression – In cooperation with the GNU community, we are happy and proud to bring standard ELF section compression APIs to libelf. This builds on our earlier work in 2012 (Solaris 11 Update 2) to standardize ELF compression at the file format level. Now, others can easily access that functionality.
- ld -ztype, and Kernel Modules That Know What They Are – Solaris Kernel Modules (kmods) are now explicitly tagged as such, and are treated as final objects.
- Regular Expression and Glob Matching for Mapfiles – Pattern matching using regular expressions, globbing, or plain string comparisons, bring new expressive power to Solaris mapfiles.
- New CRT Objects. (Or: What Are CRT objects?) – Publically documented and committed CRT objects for Solaris.
- Goodbye (And Good Riddance) to -mt -and -D_REENTRANT – A long awaited simplification to the process of building multithreaded code, one of the final projects delivered to Solaris by Roger Faulkner, made possible by his earlier work on thread unification that landed in Solaris 10.
- Weak Filters: Dealing With libc Refactoring Over The Years – Weak Filters allow the link-editor to discard unnecessary libc filters as dependencies, because you can’t always fix the Makefile.
- Where Did The 32-Bit Linkers Go? – In Solaris 11 Update 4 (and Solaris 11 Update 3), the 32-bit version of the link-editor, and related linking utilities, are gone.
We hope you enjoy.