different things from this commit:
+ More devices. Devices that were previously ignored are now present.
+ Faster device scanning. "There is no try, only Do" -- f_device_try()
is no longer the basis of device scanning as GEOM provides [nearly]
all devices (doesn't provide network devices).
+ More information available as non-root. Usually you have to be root
to do things like taste filesystems, and that limits the amount of
information available to non-root users; with GEOM, we see all even
running unprivileged as the brunt of information (except for so-
called ``dangerously dedicated'' file systems) is represented by the
`kern.geom.confxml' sysctl(8) MIB.
NB: Only really useful for external scripts that use the API and run as
non-root; where this code is used in bsdconfig(8) and bsdinstall(8)
you are running as root so can detect even ``dangerously dedicated''
file systems that are not present in GEOM; e.g., no PART class for
a DOS filesystem written directly to disk without partition table).
+ No more use of legacy tools such as diskinfo(8) to get disk capacity
or fdisk(8) to see partitions.
MFC after: 1 week
taking a variable to set need to make sure they protect their locals; if
$var_to_set positional argument coincides with a local the expected call
to `setvar' will fail to reach outside of the function's namespace. When
such collisions are experienced (as I did in the rewrite of usermgmt) the
solution is to append a full or abbreviated version of the function name
to the local (ultimately eliminating collisions). This is rarely needed
and only occurs when you have a lot of like-named functions that pass
very similar $var_to_set positional arguments to each other (such as-is
the case with an expansive library such as `dialog.subr').
installation is cdrom. This enables bsdconfig(8) to make use
of the on-disc pkg(8) repository configuration, which fixes
package selection and installation from the dvd installer.
MFC after: 3 days
M-MFC-With: r259426
X-MFC-Before: -RC3
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
+ Remove UNAME_P=$(...) from startup/misc -- already supplied by common.subr
+ Use f_getvar instead of $(eval echo \$$var) -- f_getvar is sub-shell free
+ Add `-e' and `-k var' options to f_eval_catch -- increasing use-cases
+ Use f_eval_catch to display errors on failure -- reducing duplicated code
+ Use f_eval_catch when we need output from a command -- improving debugging
+ Optimize f_isinter of strings.subr for performance -- now sub-shell free
+ Improve error checking on pidfiles -- using f_eval_catch and f_isinteger
+ Use $var_to_set arg of f_ifconfig_{inet,netmask} -- eliminate sub-shells
+ Use f_sprintf instead of $(printf ...) -- consolidate sub-shells
+ Use $var_to_set arg of f_route_get_default -- eliminate sub-shells
+ Add f_count to replace $(set -- ...;echo $#) -- eliminate sub-shells
+ Add f_count_ifs to replace $(IFS=x;set -- ...;echo $#) -- no sub-shells
+ Replace var="$var${var:+ }..." in loops with var="$var ..." with a follow-
up var="${var# }" to trim leading whitespace -- optimize loops
+ Use $var_to_set arg of f_resolv_conf_nameservers -- eliminate sub-shells
+ Comments for the f_eval_catch function
+ Remove a duplicate `local ... desc ...' in f_device_get_all of device.subr
+ Use $var_to_set arg of f_device_capacity -- eliminate sub-shells
+ Whitespace fixes in f_dialog_init of dialog.subr
+ Optimize f_inet_atoi of media/tcpip.subr for performance -- sub-shell free
+ In several cases, send stderr to /dev/null -- clean up runtime execution
+ Change f_err of common.subr to go to program stderr not terminal stderr,
allowing redirection of output from functions that use f_err
+ Disable debugging when using f_getvar to get variable argument to
f_startup_rcconf_map_expand of startup/rcconf.subr
+ Use f_replace_all instead of $(echo ... | tr | sed) -- performance
+ Add a $var_to_set option to f_index_{file,menusel_{command,keyword}} of
common.subr -- centralize sub-shells
`device.subr' framework (improving performane and reducing sub-shells). Next
improve the `device.subr' framework itself. Make use of the `flags' device
struct member for network interfaces to indicate if an interface is Active,
Wired Ethernet, or 802.11 Wireless. Functions have been added to make checks
against the `flags' bit-field quick and efficient. Last, add function for
rescanning the network to update the device registers. Remove an unnecessary
local (ifn) while we're here (use already provided local `if').
