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src
Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official CVS src repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the tech@ mailing list.
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freebsd-src
The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests....
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InfluxDB
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empty-argv-segfault-check
Test if an executable segfaults when started with an empty argv. The script may be used as a vulnerability-scanner to find setuid executables having buggy code (but it will probably not find any direct security vulnerabilities).
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ports
Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official cvs ports repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the ports@ mailing list.
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SaaSHub
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OpenBSD has handled this case for some years. I do not know if there was any breakage or fallout from this.
https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/74212563870067f5b1e271...
FreeBSD did not require non null argv[0] until 9 days ago.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/773fa8cd136a57...
1. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b99e3569ba17b9fd38... This changed the userspace hwmon API of the thinkpad-acpi driver, which broke my sensor-monitoring software that I used on my Thinkpad laptop. It was justified on the basis that "most" userspace was using libsensors which papered over this change, but my software didn't use libsensors.
2. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b02c6857389da66b09e... This changed the userspace hwmon API of the k10temp hwmon driver, specifically by swapping which temperatures Tctl and Tdie referred to. For example, my Threadripper reports one real temperature and one fake temperature that's 27degC higher than the real one. (AMD does this because it wants default fan curves to think the CPU is hotter than it really is, because it wants fans to run faster by default.) Since this change swapped the two sensors, it could've had one of two outcomes:
- a) Software that monitored the fake temperature was now automatically reading the real temperature, and thus running the fan slower than it used to.
- b) Software that monitored the real temperature was now reading the fake temperature, and thus running the fan faster than it used to.
Luckily my case was (b), and I discovered the change not because of a throttled / smoking CPU but because of an unexpectedly loud fan.
> OpenBSD has handled this case for some years. I do not know if there was any breakage or fallout from this.
The other thing about OpenBSD is that when they make a change to their OS, they also go through to make sure all the (third-party) ports/packages:
* https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/
* https://github.com/openbsd/ports
do not break. So they're create patches for the software and and submit them upstream.