Andrew Eikum [Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:59:12 +0000 (13:59 -0500)]
Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.
Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>
I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.
This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.
The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
journald: properly update message size after stripping the identifier
Valgrind says:
==29176== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==29176== at 0x412A85: cunescape_length_with_prefix (util.c:1565)
==29176== by 0x40B351: dev_kmsg_record (journald-kmsg.c:301)
==29176== by 0x40B653: server_read_dev_kmsg (journald-kmsg.c:347)
==29176== by 0x40B701: server_flush_dev_kmsg (journald-kmsg.c:365)
==29176== by 0x409DE7: main (journald.c:1535)
Martin Pitt [Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:21:17 +0000 (08:21 +0200)]
rules: Fix persistent input symlinks for interface 00
Commits 5e9eb156c and 32567f8 introduced persistent symlinks for input devices
with more than one interface. However, this does not ensure stability for the
"default" interface, i. e. with interface number 00 or a nonexisting one. If a
device with a higher interface number appears first, it'll claim the symlink
name without an interface number, and the "interface 00" device won't get any.
Fix this by creating the default symlink only for interface 00 or a nonexisting
one, so that we properly partition the two cases over the two rules.
Kay Sievers [Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:21:38 +0000 (18:21 +0200)]
udev: allow firmware requests to bypass the dependency tracking
The removal of the TIMEOUT= handling in udevd put firmware requests into the
devpath parent/child dependency tracking. Drivers which block in module_init()
asking userspace for firmware ran into a 30 sec device timeout.
The whole firmware loading willl hopefully move into the kernel and
the fragile-since-day-one fake async driver-core device dance involving
udev can be retired:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e
Dave Reisner [Sat, 6 Oct 2012 20:32:17 +0000 (16:32 -0400)]
sysctl: avoiding exiting with error on -EEXIST
If the final key in any sysctl.d file is a duplicate, systemd-sysctl
will exit with an error (and no explaination why). Ignore this, as
duplicate keys are to be expected when overriding settings in the
directory hierarchy.
Tom Gundersen [Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:22:05 +0000 (22:22 +0200)]
vconsole: default to the kernel compiled-in font
No longer override the default kernel font if nothing is specified in
vconsole.conf.
The default kernel font[0] provides ISO-8859-1 and box characters. Users
of Arabic, Cyrilic or Hebrew must set a different font manually as these
character sets were provided by the old default font [1], but are not
any longer.
Rationale:
* it is counter-intuitive that an empty vconsole.conf file is different
from adding FONT="";
* the version of the default font shipped with Arch (which is the
upstream one) behaves very badly during early boot[2] (which should
admittedly be fixed in the font itself);
* the kernel already supplies a default font, it seems reasonable to
use that unless anything else is specified;
* This also avoids a needless slow call to setfont; and
* We don't want to work around problems in the kernel (in case the
compiled-in font is not acceptable for whatever reason).
Dave Reisner [Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:48:13 +0000 (20:48 -0400)]
tmpfiles: restore previous behavior for F/f
d4e9eb91ea changed the behavior for the F and f actions, wrongly sending
them to glob_item(). Restore the old behavior and shortcut straight to
write_one_file().
journal: add minimal journal gateway daemon based on GNU libmicrohttpd
This minimal HTTP server can serve journal data via HTTP. Its primary
purpose is synchronization of journal data across the network. It serves
journal data in three formats:
text/plain: the text format known from /var/log/messages
application/json: the journal entries formatted as JSON
application/vnd.fdo.journal: the binary export format of the journal
The HTTP server also serves a small HTML5 app that makes use of the JSON
serialization to present the journal data to the user.
Among other cleanups this introduces a threshold for the size of binary
blobs we serialize as integer arrays in the JSON output. THis can be
disabled via --all.