From owner-p4-releng Mon Mar 18 17:47:14 2002 Delivered-To: p4-releng@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id 25CC237B402; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:46:45 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: perforce@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E6B37B41A for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:46:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2J1kgZ11524 for perforce@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murray@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:46:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203190146.g2J1kgZ11524@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Murray Stokely Subject: PERFORCE change 7845 for review To: Perforce Change Reviews Sender: owner-p4-releng@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=7845 Change 7845 by murray@murray_builder on 2002/03/18 01:32:02 Add errata information about FreeBSD 5.0-DP1. The text was supplied in Robert Watson's email from Friday. This requires significant word-smithing and reorganization. Affected files ... ... //depot/releng/5_dp1/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#2 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/releng/5_dp1/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#2 (text+ko) ==== @@ -48,71 +48,113 @@ - This document lists errata items for &os; - &release.current;, - containing significant information discovered after the release. - This information includes security advisories, as well as news + This document lists known errata items for &os; + &release.current;. This information includes information relating to the software or documentation that could affect its - operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document - should always be consulted before installing this version of - &os;. + operation or usability. Please note that &os; &release.current; + is not an officially supported release of FreeBSD. -This errata document for &os; &release.prev; will be - maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;. -]]> - -This is the final version of the errata document for &os; - &release.prev;. Future errata documents along the - &release.branch; branch will address &os; &release.current; and - later releases. -]]> + This errata document for &os; &release.current; will be + maintained until the release of &os; 5.0 DP2. - At this time, &release.current; has no errata, because - there have not been any releases on the &release.branch; - branch since the last branchpoint. (The first such release - will be &release.next;.) This file exists to provide a clean - template for newly-created branches. (Clearly this notice - should not exist on any branched version of this file.) - Introduction + Known Problems - This errata document contains late-breaking news - about &os; - &release.current;. - Before installing this version, it is important to consult this - document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems - that may already have been found and fixed. + + Serial GDB is broken. - Any version of this errata document actually distributed - with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be - out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on - the Internet and should be consulted as the current - errata for this release. These other copies of the - errata are located at , plus any sites - which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location. + LOMAC doesn't protect against a certain class of + inter-process activities such as signalling, since the MAC + hooks those checks rely on aren't in the base tree + yet. - Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also - contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of - the snapshot). + gcc -O is known to be + broken. - For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see or . - + Two different pccard implementations depending + on whether you need cardbus or not, and NEWCARD has pccard + bugs. + + Kernels may have to be built with + 'NO_WERROR=yes' due to warning handling in the build + infrastructure. + + The system documentation indicates that there is + support for POSIX.1e capabilities, but the kernel + infrastructure is not merged; the documentation and library + may be removed before 5.0 depending on strategy decisions not + yet made. + - Security Advisories - + Unfinished Features + + A number of very significant changes to the system will be + made for &os; 5.0. These features are in the following stages + of development. + + + + The lock-pushdown for fine-grained kernel + threading is in-process, and not complete in this snapshot. + As a result, the full benefits are not yet + realized. + + Scheduler activation support exists only in the + kernel, not in the userland thread library, and in this + snapshot, threads from the same process using KSE can execute + on only one processor at a time. + + Mandatory access control support from the + TrustedBSD branch is not yet merged. + + UFS2 is not yet ready for inclusion in the + snapshot. + + - System Update Information - + Known pitfalls + + + + Debugging kernels are very slow; this is a + natural product of the debugging code in these kernels. Those + benchmarking the system should be sure to run without + debugging features enabled. + + Interrupt latency is high due to on-going SMP + work, this will be fixed prior to the final release. + + Tighter enforcement of #include file deprecation + results in a number of common applications failing to build. + In particular, if you #include <malloc.h>, you now get a + #error instead of a #warning. + + The kernel is no longer installed as + /kernel and + /modules, these have moved to + /boot/kernel. + + When upgrading a system, make sure to pay + attention to the pam.conf -> + pam.d change. Likewise, there has been a + libpam version bump as well as new PAM modules introduced: + this may result in warnings from older authentication-related + applications such as RELENG_4 + xdm, + kdm, and + gdm. + + + For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see or . + + To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-releng" in the body of the message