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Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's CVS src repository. This only includes the main branch; use CVS for -stable or release branches. Send any diffs to the tech@ mailing list.

146 mentions on Hacker News by 108 people: 6 stories, 140 comments · first 2016-10-17 · latest 2026-10-20

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  1. …on anything that's not a tty device, so on OpenBSD revoke(2) returns ENOTTY in those cases. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/0aefaaaa63aa6de2ea734f... https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/205dd0b22f2c32de7bacbd... This was discovered…
    comment by brynet · 2020-06-30 · in Implementing a System Call for OpenBSD
  2. …That is done inside the kernel. Changing the kernel would break backwards compatibility. https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/0970cb57551e0e8df6688f8a... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/cb8e59cc87201af93dfbb...
    comment by sigjuice · 2020-06-26 · in Questions: History of Ifconfig
  3. …1) Yes, there is active development. BSDs don't have net-tools as a separately developed package. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commits/master/sbin/ifconfig https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commits/master/sbin/ifcon...
    comment by sigjuice · 2020-06-26 · in Questions: History of Ifconfig
  4. …stat(), gethostbyname(), etc, work almost the same. Edit: One of their Perl scripts for reference: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/b66614995ab119f75167daaa... And pkg_add, which has quite a lot of Perl:…
    comment by tyingq · 2020-05-30 · in Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?
  5. …Xe could have connected it to an OpenBSD system. OpenBSD still supports the whole mechanism. * https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/57d747eef2b80ca9ffb95407...
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-04-16 · in Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]
  6. …object stack protector cookie extended for the per-function cookies required for RETGUARD. https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/libexec/ld.so/SPE... https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html No other OS has this.
    comment by notaplumber · 2020-01-08 · in Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
  7. …should hopefully obviate the need to depend on GPG for hardware token solutions. See for example https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/094c80e0a523faf92a99f6...
    comment by beefhash · 2019-12-18 · in OpenSSH Key Shielding
  8. …steps in the direction of allowing host keys and client keys to be backed by security keys.[3] [0] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/707316f931b35ef67f1390... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect [2]…
    comment by lucb1e · 2019-12-18 · in OpenSSH Key Shielding
  9. Here's the patch: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/eee3c75f9abd5ea51e066d... https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ld.so/...
    comment by duelingjello · 2019-12-12 · in Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's Dynamic Loader
  10. …is stupid, so I'm not advocating for using this tool or enabling it in OS's as default policy. [1]: https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/sbin/unwind
    comment by loeg · 2019-12-05 · in Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections
  11. …has been fighting the ecosystem on this for a long time, there are no executable stacks on OpenBSD. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/32c3fa3f83422ae0dec73c... The pmap support appeared in subsequent commits for multiple platforms,…
    comment by brynet · 2019-11-16 · in Infectious Executable Stacks
  12. https://github.com/openbsd/src , as well as any software built by that team: https://github.com/openssh https://github.com/opensmtpd https://github.com/libressl-portable/ etc.
    comment by moviuro · 2019-10-15 · in Ask HN: Examples of Good Software
  13. …PS: the most secure open-source OS out there has a package manager written in perl, with priv-sep ( https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.sbin/pkg_add ).
    comment by moviuro · 2019-09-20 · in Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”
  14. …making a hard link pointing to the new data. In userspace? That seems to be what's happening here - https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cp/utils.c This is made a bit more confusing by the differences in man pages. For GNU ln,…
    comment by throwaway5d097 · 2019-09-07 · in Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
  15. …and define well-known numerical constants for each (documented!) system call. https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/sys/syscall.h https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/sys/sys/sysca... http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.c
    comment by bediger4000 · 2019-09-02 · in Windows X86-64 System Call Table
  16. …pool of random data built into it, and writing that to disk as part of the install. Take a look at https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/distrib/miniroot/... , specifically, feed_random and store_random
    comment by ori_b · 2019-07-17 · in OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes half an hour (2018)
  17. …'yes' example from the other thread: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/yes/yes.c Really, my main beef is the suppression of history and misrepresentation of a…
    comment by cat199 · 2019-07-02 · in Decoded: GNU Coreutils
  18. Sure: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/707316f931b35ef67f1390...
    comment by mulander · 2019-06-21 · in SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks
  19. See the blame on tar.1 [0] : documentation does not change very much... [0] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blame/f84583fe5d7899ab1504dc1...
    comment by moviuro · 2019-05-28 · in What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?
  20. It’s /usr/bin/true on Mac, and the OpenBSD source for it is at https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/true/true... .
    comment by robin_reala · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
  21. …This will place them in a similar position they had with GCC, since the GPLv3 license change. [0] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/e688c2b0648a80551cf735... [1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/9866f44de26a847eaed067... [2]…
    comment by notaplumber · 2018-12-17 · in LLVM Relicensing Effort
  22. …easy to code an integer overflow when doing something like malloc(sizeof(member) * nmembers). [1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/stdlib/r...
    comment by 0xcde4c3db · 2018-12-02 · in Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined
  23. …listserv and the problem was fixed within day. (Wow that was almost 10 years ago?! How time flies) https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/13fba73cec6be16d64c86e... We ultimately went with VyOS (back then called Vyatta) and Quagga but it…
    comment by mrunkel · 2018-11-29 · in How we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel
  24. GitHub mirror: https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.bin/nc
    comment by jwilk · 2018-10-13 · in The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code
  25. …EDIT: freebsd: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/netinet/i... openbsd: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/netinet/in4_c...
    comment by dronemallone · 2018-09-04 · in A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016)
  26. …to use the deterministic variants if needed. I guess that would be hard with things like CPAN. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/2e109fb9e8c0dc273648dd... https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/2e109fb9e8c0dc273648dd...…
    comment by notaplumber · 2018-08-29 · in The setup of OpenBSD Amsterdam
  27. …b.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/24053fbd8f9bd3... OpenBSD true(1) however... seems pretty much dead. https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.bin/true
    comment by moviuro · 2018-07-25 · in Be Nice and Write Stable Code
  28. …and rarely used for anything else. Unveal lives in kernel, it just keeps a reference to vnode ( https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/03249988e9bbffb48a568839... )
    comment by dchest · 2018-07-19 · in Unveil(2) – Unveil parts of a restricted filesystem view
  29. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/96c11352863a7f6240b4e5...
    comment by foodstances · 2018-06-20 · in OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns
  30. …longer implements the kernel mechanism, had had it since the initial import from NetBSD in 1995. * https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/df930be708d50e9715f173ca... Illumos has it, and has had since at least the OpenSolaris launch. *…
    comment by JdeBP · 2018-06-14 · in Ancient “su – hostile” vulnerability in Debian 8 and 9
  31. …and just make using it an error. * http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170701132619 * https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/baecf150995d4609cd1479... Others take a different view. * http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/0…
    comment by JdeBP · 2018-06-14 · in Ancient “su – hostile” vulnerability in Debian 8 and 9
  32. …from what's been committed today (see other comments). Github mirror, for easier review: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/e688c2b0648a80551cf735...
    comment by brynet · 2018-06-06 · in Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD
  33. …https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/libbb/remove_file.c And finally openbsd: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/rm/rm.c
    comment by zokier · 2018-04-24 · in Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?
  34. On GitHub, appears at [0] with comments coming in today at [1]. 0 - https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/2e40dd69ac29d6a858309b... 1 - https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/cc66e8f557d6f3d4dea5ea...
    comment by kodablah · 2017-10-16 · in Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse
  35. …through NetBSD to OpenBSD. * https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/516da8a02fc8bc10555ed9acd... * https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/df930be708d50e9715f173ca... Manual pages are not standards, not specifications, but implementation…
    comment by JdeBP · 2017-09-13 · in Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers
  36. …(e.g. [1] [2] [3]) [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/drm/d... [2] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/pci/drm/d... [3] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
    comment by 0xcde4c3db · 2017-08-31 · in Intro to Low-Level Graphics on Linux
  37. https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/acpi/dsdt... https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/acpi/dsdt...
    comment by foodstances · 2017-08-12 · in Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
  38. …in pthread_mutex_init, unlikely but certainly a valid change given lack of synchronization. [0] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/0ecb71b5ec9e4b22a484606f...
    comment by wuch · 2017-07-27 · in OpenBSD switches the default compiler on amd64 and i386 to clang
  39. OpenBSD has had a github mirror for awhile now. The commit is here: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/bc04e837fd81a3001f68f1... As for clang version, it looks to be 4.0.0 per https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/53d771aafdbe5b919f264f.…
    comment by voutilad · 2017-07-27 · in OpenBSD switches the default compiler on amd64 and i386 to clang
  40. …is exactly what OpenBSD has done since Markus Friedl switched arc4random() to use ChaCha20 in 2013: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/90c1fad70a3483c2c72c3c... The design was inspired by Nick Mathewson's libottery:…
    comment by djmdjm · 2017-07-24 · in Fast-key-erasure random-number generators
  41. …cat is a little more convoluted than the simplest possible implementation (at least to my eyes): https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cat/cat.c https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c (That is, Gnu "cat" and…
    comment by e12e · 2017-06-14 · in How is GNU `yes` so fast?
  42. …"easier, cleaner and shorter to write it in python"? Did you look at the OpenBSD implementation? https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/yes/yes.c It's essentially line for line identical to your python code...
    comment by raptorfactor · 2017-06-13 · in How is GNU `yes` so fast?
  43. Speed vs readability: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/yes/yes.c
    comment by exxo_ · 2017-06-13 · in How is GNU `yes` so fast?
  44. …of it with the help of an amazing team. Here it is pulling in the OpenBSD sources: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/openbsd/src/-/blob/lib/li... . Sourcegraph has advanced features for several languages; see…
    comment by sqs · 2017-06-09 · in Reading OpenBSD source code daily
  45. …I'm going to say nobody checked for overflow prior to the August 2002 security advisory. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/c7b2af4b3f7e78424f8943... https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/0950889b810736fe7ad34...…
    comment by ksherlock · 2016-12-06 · in Why does calloc exist?
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    OpenBSD source code mirrored on GitHub
    story by tete · 2016-10-17 · 0 comments