Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | user-mode port 0.47-2.4.10 | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:51:09 -0500 | From | Jeff Dike <> |
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The user-mode port of 2.4.10 is available.
The highlights:
UML can now communicate with the host networking via TUN/TAP.
libc's allocation routines (malloc, calloc, free) are intercepted and converted into kmalloc whenever possible. This fixes problems with gprof and gcov, and closes a potential security hole.
UML loads itself into the top of the address space (0xa0000000-0xc0000000 on 1G/3G hosts), giving its processes everything below that. This fixes a bug which caused nasty-looking complaints when UML was given 256M of physical memory or more. I've run it with up to 464M. This also fixes the hang caused by mlockall.
The mconsole client has been enhanced, so it now had command history and command recall, it can control multiple UMLs, and can attached to a UML by its name rather than the full filename of its control socket.
uml_net does complete setup of TUN/TAP interfaces. It also insmods netlink_dev for the benefit of ethertap.
The ubd COW header now has room for MAXPATHLEN-sized filenames, it contains absolute paths only, and is in network byte order. The ubd driver handles IO errors better now, and should be 64-bit clean.
The process segfaults seen on a swapping system are gone.
The project's home page is http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net
Downloads are available at http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/dl-sf.html
Jeff
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