It is required to prevent deadlocks in single-threaded select-based IO
programs (namely: qrexec). POSIX API doesn't support checking how much
can be written to pipe/socket without blocking, so to prevent blocking
application must use O_NONBLOCK mode, and somehow deal with non-written
data (buffer it).
QubesOS/qubes-issues#1347
* origin/pr/1:
use 64-bit integers for memory sizes to support > 2 TB RAM
Report Xen balloon current size instead of Linux total memory
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#1136
POSIX requires that a read(2) which can be proved to occur after a
write() has returned returns the new data.
We want here only that other processes in the same VM will see the
file either fully written, or not see it at all. So ensuring that
linkat(2) is called after write is completed should be enough.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#1257
At the moment, Xen has a 16TB limit on x86, so this has no practical
impact, aside for silencing compiler truncation warnings.
Also, the rest of the GUI/u2mfn code and protocol would need to be
expanded to use 64-bit mfns for Qubes to actually work there.
* origin/pr/1:
archlinux: ensure /usr/sbin is not use to follow archlinux packaging guidelines
archlinux: update to match new dependancies and archlinux /usr/lib guidelines
Since migration to QubesDB, it isn't needed anymore (QubesDB have no
problem with concurrent writes, as transactions are not supported).
This should speedup system startup.
This is preparation for pvgrub support, where all VM kernel files will
be installed inside of VM instead of dom0.
But also the same could be used to prepare VM kernel image from any dom0
kernel.
Recently we've switched all xenstore access to the new interface
(instead of deprecated /proc/xen/xenbus). Mostly because of deadlock in
/proc/xen/xenbus implementation.
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Instead of pipes, stdin/out/err are created as sockets. This allows
qrexec-agent/daemon to decide to use some of them bidirectional. This is
up to qrexec-agent/daemon, such socket can still be used as
unidirectional channel.
The main reason for this feature is to use USBIP over qrexec, which
require single socket.
