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2003 by The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
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1.9.2.4 2003/01/14 18:12:50 roam Exp $<br />
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2003/01/16 23:58:28 bmah Exp $<br />
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Late-Breaking News</a></h1>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a>-based disk
partitioning code in the kernel will not allow an open
@ -109,11 +109,11 @@
<p>When using disk media with sector sizes larger than 512
bytes (for instance, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">gbde</span>(4)</span></a> encrypted
disks), the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">dump</span>(8)</span></a> program
fails to respect the larger sector size and cannot dump the
@ -129,17 +129,17 @@ class="USERINPUT"><b>dump 0f - /junk/ad0.dd | ...</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>A simpler workaround is to use <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(1)</span></a> or <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpio&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cpio&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">cpio</span>(1)</span></a> to make
backup copies.</p>
<p>Hangs have been reported during FreeBSD 5.0 snapshot
installations when installing to <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mly&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mly&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">mly</span>(4)</span></a>-supported
RAID arrays, in hardware configurations that appear to work
@ -149,41 +149,41 @@ class="USERINPUT"><b>dump 0f - /junk/ad0.dd | ...</b></tt>
and hence not working.</p>
<p>During installation, the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iir&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iir&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">iir</span>(4)</span></a> controller
appears to probe correctly, but finds no disk devices.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> appears to
contain a race condition during the start-up of debugging,
which can result in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> failing to
attach to the process before it exists. The symptom is that
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> reports
that it cannot open the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">procfs</span>(5)</span></a> node
supporting the process being debugged. A bug also appears
to exist wherein <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> will hang
if <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">execve</span>(2)</span></a> returns
<tt class="LITERAL">ENOENT</tt> A further race appears to
exist in which <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=truss&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">truss</span>(1)</span></a> will
return ``<tt class="ERRORNAME">PIOCWAIT: Input/output
@ -192,11 +192,11 @@ class="USERINPUT"><b>dump 0f - /junk/ad0.dd | ...</b></tt>
been deferred until after 5.0.</p>
<p>Some bugs have been reported in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> disk
partitioning. One observed problem on the i386 is that <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
cannot recalculate the free space left on a disk after
@ -204,28 +204,114 @@ class="USERINPUT"><b>dump 0f - /junk/ad0.dd | ...</b></tt>
<p>In some case, documentation (such as the FAQ or
Handbook) has not been updated to take into account FreeBSD
5.0-RELEASE features. Examples of areas where documentation
5.0-CURRENT features. Examples of areas where documentation
is still needed include <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">gbde</span>(8)</span></a> and the new
``fast IPsec'' implementation.</p>
<p>Attempting to unmount smbfs shares may fail with ``<tt
class="ERRORNAME">Device busy</tt>'' errors even when the
mount-point is not really busy. A workaround is to keep
trying to unmount the share until it eventually succeeds.
This bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p>
<p>Forcefully unmounting (<tt class="COMMAND">umount
-f</tt>) smbfs shares may cause a kernel panic. This bug
has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p>
<p>When called on a connected socket file descriptor, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstat&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">fstat</span>(2)</span></a> is
supposed to return the number of bytes available to read in
the <tt class="VARNAME">st_size</tt> member of <tt
class="VARNAME">struct stat</tt>. However, <tt
class="VARNAME">st_size</tt> is always erroneously reported
as <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> on TCP sockets. This bug has
been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">kqueue</span>(2)</span></a> <tt
class="LITERAL">EVFILT_READ</tt> filter erroneously
indicates that <tt class="LITERAL">0</tt> bytes are
available to be read on TCP sockets, regardless of the
number of bytes that are actually available. The <tt
class="LITERAL">NOTE_LOWAT</tt> flag for <tt
class="LITERAL">EVFILT_READ</tt> is also broken on TCP
sockets. This bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p>
<p>FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE introduced support for POSIX named
semaphores but the implementation contains a critical bug
that causes <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sem_open&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">sem_open</span>(3)</span></a> to
incorrectly handle the opening of the same semaphore
multiple times by the same process, and that causes <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sem_close&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">sem_close</span>(3)</span></a> to
crash calling programs. This bug has been fixed in
5.0-CURRENT.</p>
<p>FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE has a minor bug in how the
permissions of <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/tty</tt> are
handled. This can be triggered by logging in as a non-<tt
class="USERNAME">root</tt>, non-<tt
class="GROUPNAME">tty</tt> group user, and using <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=su&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">su</span>(1)</span></a> to switch to
a second non-<tt class="USERNAME">root</tt>, non-<tt
class="GROUPNAME">tty</tt> group user. <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">ssh</span>(1)</span></a> will fail
because it cannot open <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/tty</tt>.
This bug has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">growfs</span>(8)</span></a> no longer
works on <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">vinum</span>(4)</span></a> volumes
(and presumably, on <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">geom</span>(4)</span></a> entities)
since these subsystems no longer fake disklabels, but <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=growfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
class="REFENTRYTITLE">growfs</span>(8)</span></a> insists
on examining a label.</p>
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