CiotBSD

26/10/02

⇒ Headers Up! What's New in httpd and relayd

As I mentioned in my Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) post, development of relayd(8) and httpd(8) was revived.

• https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/update-relayd-and-httpd/

26/09/30

⇒ The Forty-Four Switches on ls

The standard asks ls for 26 switches. This machine gives it 44, and the GNU tree gives it 60. Every single one of them had a reason. Lean Software.

• https://vivianvoss.net/blog/forty-four-switches

26/09/29

⇒ What FreeBSD Charges at the Boundary

A system call on this machine costs fifty-two nanoseconds. The same call in a Linux guest on the very same processor costs eight hundred and sixteen. Neither number is about the kernel type, and that is the finding. The Bench Marker.

• https://vivianvoss.net/blog/kernel-boundary-cost

26/09/21

⇒ The udev Rule That Runs as Root

Six actions make up the entire rule language that decides what my machines show in /dev, and not one of them can execute anything. The other answer to the same problem grew a technique number in the ATT&CK catalogue. Unix Universe.

• https://vivianvoss.net/blog/devfs-vs-udev

26/09/23

⇒ The Two Dollars Between dma and the Inbox

A 67-kilobyte program in the base system will send your mail. The invoice is for the part where somebody agrees to accept it. Lean Software.

• https://vivianvoss.net/blog/dma-and-the-inbox

26/09/19

⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD, part 2

This report was written by Dimitris Gounaridis as part of Google Summer of Code 2026. It is the 2nd part of a series.

• https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment_2

26/09/07

⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing, part 2

This report was written by Henrique Brito as part of Google Summer of Code 2026. It is the 2nd part of a series. You can read the 1st part at Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing.

• https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux_2

26/08/23

⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Improving RAIDframe

The Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a disk management framework developed by Carnegie-Mellon University. NetBSD uses RAIDframe as one of its disks management modules. It involves setting up multiple disks and creating a disk unit from them. The current NetBSD RAIDframe framework supports several levels of disks arrangement in a single array, see raid(4).

• https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_raidframe

26/08/07

⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD

Enlightenment desktop is a low on resources desktop environment without sacrificing on visuals. NetBSD support for this BSD-licensed desktop has been left a few years behind. The aim of this project is to port the newest version of the desktop to pkgsrc and commit upstream portability fixes when necessary to ease future versions updates for NetBSD.

• https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment

26/08/01

⇒ NetBSD 11.0 released!

The NetBSD project is pleased to (finally) announce the NetBSD 11.0 release! See the release announcement for details.

• https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released

⇒ NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility

NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0

(06/12)

⇒ syslogd(8) privileged and non-privileged parts now separate binaries

In OpenBSD, the syslogd(8) system logger has already for a while now fork(2)ed the privileged from the non-privileged parts.

• https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260612080210

(06/08)

⇒ Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA

Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/ACPI-CPPC-v4-Linux-7.2

That’s an interesting idea, though I’m not sure if it’s relevant.

The question I’m asking myself is: why is it problematic to use the expire option, which is designed for this very purpose? because sysadmins forget to configure it, which causes the relevant tables to grow?!

I think this is more relevant:

The "feature request" wish I have is to be able to backup/restore tables
preserving the counters and timestamp for each entry.

Currently I do a "pfctl -T show" and save to file on server shutdown.
Then I do a "pfctl -T add" from filename to reload table on boot.
Obviously this resets all the timestamps to the current boot time.
I know, don't reboot.

seen on: - https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260513064948

This seems me a good idea: save with good informations when rebooting is needed, as instance a "new" rebuilded kernel