In the case of vbfs the host is VirtualBox so mentions of VMware must be
copy-paste errors.
closes#264
Change-Id: Ieb1316155be8f8fb81e3e5a2b21147594f6cb4d9
IMPORTANT: this change has a docs/UPDATING entry!
This change is a long overdue switch-over from the old MINIX set of
user and group accounts to the NetBSD set. This switch-over is
increasingly important now that we are importing more and more
utilities from NetBSD, several of which expect various user accounts
to exist. By switching over in one go, we save ourselves various
headaches in the long run, even if the switch-over itself is a bit
painful for existing MINIX users.
The newly imported master.passwd and group files have three exceptions
compared to their NetBSD originals:
1. There is a custom "service" account for MINIX 3 services. This
account is used to limit run-time privileges of various system
services, and is not used for any files on disk. Its user ID may
be changed later, but should always correspond to whatever the
SERVICE_UID definition is set to.
2. The user "bin" has its shell set to /bin/sh, instead of NetBSD's
/sbin/nologin. The reason for this is that the test set in
/usr/tests/minix-posix will not be able to run otherwise.
3. The group "operator" has been set to group ID 0, to match its old
value. This tweak is purely for transitioning purposes: as of
writing, pkgsrc packages are still using root:operator as owner and
group for most installed files. Sometime later, we can change back
"operator" to group ID 5 without breaking anything, because it does
not appear that this group name is used for anything important.
Change-Id: I689bcfff4cf7ba85c27d1ae579057fa3f8019c68
While BSD make support both $() and ${} around variables, the NetBSD
source tree uses only ${} by convention.
Imported software is left as is, and sometimes $() is used when the
containing Makefile/Makefile fragment is used both by GNU make and BSD
make, as it can happen for the tools, and other parts as well which are
compiled using the host make tool.
Change-Id: Ic7d480812fde53e7e3e95275a30a3b720c95cc15
This concerns all services, a.k.a drivers, filesystem drivers, network
(inet, lwip, uds) servers, and the system servers.
Change-Id: I626fd15c795e15af42df2d10d47fb4a703665d63
