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                      8: .de XP
                      9: .IP \\fB\\$1\\fP \\ni
                     10: ..
                     11: .NH
                     12: Header files
                     13: .PP
                     14: This section details changes in the header files in \fB/sys/h\fP.
                     15: .XP acct.h
                     16: Process accounting is now done in units of 1/\fBAHZ\fP (64) seconds
                     17: rather than seconds.
                     18: .XP buf.h
                     19: The size of the buffer hash table has been increased substantially.
                     20: .XP cmap.h
                     21: The core map has had a number of fields enlarged to support larger
                     22: memories and filesystems.
                     23: The limits imposed by this structure are now commented.
                     24: The current limits are 64 Mb of physical memory, 255 filesystems,
                     25: 1 Gb process segments, 8 Gb per filesystem,
                     26: and 65535 processes and text entries.
                     27: The machine-language support now derives its definitions of these limits
                     28: and the cmap structure from this file.
                     29: .XP dmap.h
                     30: The swap map per process segment was enlarged to allow images up to 64Mb.
                     31: .XP domain.h
                     32: New entry points to each domain have been added,
                     33: for initialization, externalization of access rights,
                     34: and disposal of access rights.
                     35: .XP errno.h
                     36: A definition of EDEADLK was added for System V compatibility.
                     37: .XP fs.h
                     38: One spare field in the superblock was allocated to store an option
                     39: for the fragment allocation policy.
                     40: .XP inode.h
                     41: New fields were added to the in-core inode to hold a cache key
                     42: and a pointer to any text image mapping the file.
                     43: A new macro, ITIMES, is provided for updating the timestamps in an inode
                     44: without writing the inode back to the disk.
                     45: The inode is marked as modified with the IMOD flag.
                     46: A flag has been added to allow serialization of directory renames.
                     47: .XP ioctl.h
                     48: New \fIioctl\fP operations have been added to get and set a terminal or window's
                     49: size.
                     50: The size is stored in a \fIwinsize\fP structure defined here.
                     51: Other new \fIioctl\fPs have been defined to pass a small set of special
                     52: commands from pseudo-terminals to their controllers.
                     53: A new terminal option, LPASS8, allows a full 8-bit data path on input.
                     54: The two tablet line disciplines have been merged.
                     55: A new line discipline is provided for use with IP over serial data lines.
                     56: .XP mbuf.h
                     57: The handling of mbuf page clusters has been broken
                     58: into macros separate from those that handle mbufs.
                     59: MCLALLOC(\fIm\fP, \fIi\fP) is used to allocate \fIi\fP mbuf clusters
                     60: (where \fIi\fP is currently restricted to 1)
                     61: and MCLFREE(\fIm\fP) frees them.
                     62: MCLGET(\fIm\fP) adds a page cluster to the already-allocated mbuf \fIm\fP,
                     63: setting the mbuf length to CLBYTES if successful.
                     64: The new macro M_HASCL(\fIm\fP)
                     65: returns true if the mbuf \fIm\fP has an associated cluster,
                     66: and MTOCL(\fIm\fP) returns a pointer to such a cluster.
                     67: .XP mtio.h
                     68: Definitions have been added for the TMSCP tape controllers
                     69: and to enable or disable the use of an on-board tape buffer.
                     70: .XP namei.h
                     71: This header file was renamed, completed and put into use.
                     72: .XP param.h
                     73: Several limits have been increased.  Old values are listed in parentheses
                     74: after each item.  The new limits are: 255 mounted filesystems (15),
                     75: 40 processes per user (25), 64 open files (20), 20480 characters per argument
                     76: list (10240), and 16 groups per user (8).
                     77: The maximum length of a host name supported by the kernel is defined
                     78: here as MAXHOSTNAMELEN.
                     79: The default creation mask is now set to 022 by the kernel; previously
                     80: that value was set by login, with the effect that remote shell processes
                     81: used a different default.
                     82: Clist blocks were doubled in size to 64 bytes.
                     83: .XP proc.h
                     84: Pointers were added to the \fIproc\fP structure
                     85: to allow process entries to be linked
                     86: onto lists of active, zombie or free processes.
                     87: .XP protosw.h
                     88: The address family field in the \fIprotosw\fP structure
                     89: was replaced with a pointer to the \fIdomain\fP structure for the address
                     90: family.
                     91: Definitions were added for the arguments to the protocol \fIctloutput\fP 
                     92: routines.
                     93: .XP signal.h
                     94: New signals have been defined for window size changes (SIGWINCH)
                     95: and for user-defined functions (SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2).
                     96: The \fIsv_onstack\fP field in the \fIsigvec\fP structure has been redefined
                     97: as a flags field, with flags defined for use of the signal stack
                     98: and for signals to interrupt pending systems calls rather than restarting them.
                     99: The \fIsigcontext\fP structure now includes the frame and argument pointers
                    100: for the VAX so that the complete return sequence can be done by the kernel.
                    101: A new macro, \fIsigmask\fP, is provided to simplify the use of \fIsigsetmask,
                    102: sigblock\fP, and \fIsigpause\fP.
                    103: .XP socket.h
                    104: Definitions were added for new options set with \fIsetsockopt\fP.
                    105: SO_BROADCAST requests permission to send to the broadcast address,
                    106: formerly a privileged operation, while
                    107: SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF may be used to examine or change the amount
                    108: of buffer space allocated for a socket.
                    109: Two new options are used only with \fIgetsockopt\fP:
                    110: SO_ERROR obtains any current error status and clears it,
                    111: and SO_TYPE returns the type of the socket.
                    112: A new structure was added for use with SO_LINGER.
                    113: Several new address families were defined.
                    114: .XP socketvar.h
                    115: The character and mbuf counts and limits in the \fIsockbuf\fP structure
                    116: were changed from \fIshort\fP to \fIu_short\fP.
                    117: SB_MAX defines the limit to the amount that can be placed in a \fIsockbuf\fP.
                    118: The \fIsosendallatonce\fP macro was corrected; it previously
                    119: returned true for sockets using non-blocking I/O.
                    120: \fISoreadable\fP and \fIsowriteable\fP now return true if there
                    121: is error status to report.
                    122: .XP syslog.h
                    123: The system logging facility has been extended to allow kernel use,
                    124: and the header file has thus been moved from \fB/usr/include\fP.
                    125: .XP tablet.h
                    126: A new file that contains the definitions for use
                    127: of the tablet line discipline.
                    128: .XP text.h
                    129: Linkage fields have been added to the text structure for use in
                    130: constructing a text table free list.
                    131: The structure used in recording text table usage statistics is defined here.
                    132: .XP time.h
                    133: The \fItime.h\fP header file has been split.  Those definitions relating to
                    134: the \fIgettimeofday\fP system call remain
                    135: in this file, included as <\fIsys/time.h\fP>.
                    136: The original <\fItime.h\fP> file has returned and contains the definitions
                    137: for the C library time routines.
                    138: .XP tty.h
                    139: The per-terminal data structure now contains the terminal size
                    140: so that it can be changed dynamically.
                    141: Files that include <\fIsys/tty.h\fP> now require <\fIsys/ioctl.h\fP> as well
                    142: for the \fIwinsize\fP structure definition.
                    143: .XP types.h
                    144: The new typedefs for user and group ID's are located here.
                    145: For compatibility and sensibility, the \fIsize_t\fP,
                    146: \fItime_t\fP and \fIoff_t\fP types
                    147: have all been changed from \fIint\fP to \fIlong\fP.
                    148: New definitions have been added for integer masks and bit operators
                    149: for use with the \fIselect\fP system call.
                    150: .XP uio.h
                    151: The offset field in the \fIuio\fP structure was changed from \fIint\fP
                    152: to \fIoff_t\fP.
                    153: Manifest constants for the \fIuio\fP segment values are now provided.
                    154: .XP un.h
                    155: The path in the Unix-domain version of a \fIsockaddr\fP was reduced
                    156: so that use of the entire pathname array would still allow space for
                    157: a null after the structure when stored in an mbuf.
                    158: .XP unpcb.h
                    159: A Unix-domain socket's own address is now stored in the protocol
                    160: control block rather than that of the socket to which it is connected.
                    161: Fields have been added for flow control on stream connections.
                    162: If a \fIstat\fP has caused the assignment of a dummy inode number to the socket,
                    163: that number is stored here.
                    164: .XP user.h
                    165: The user ID's, group ID's and groups array are declared using the new types
                    166: for these ID's.
                    167: A new field was added to handle the new signal flag
                    168: avoiding system call restarts.
                    169: The index of the last used file descriptor for the process is maintained
                    170: in \fIu.u_lastfile\fP.
                    171: The global fields \fIu_base, u_count,\fP and \fIu_offset\fP
                    172: have been eliminated,
                    173: with the new \fInameidata\fP structure replacing their remaining function.
                    174: The \fIa.out\fP header is no longer kept in the user structure.
                    175: .XP vmmac.h
                    176: Several macros have been rewritten to improve the code generated by
                    177: the compiler.
                    178: New macros were added to lock and unlock \fIcmap\fP entries, substituting
                    179: for \fImlock\fP and \fImunlock\fP.
                    180: .XP vmmeter.h
                    181: All counters are now uniformly declared as \fIlong\fP.
                    182: Software interrupts are now counted.

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