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
isofs now uses an in-memory directory listing built on-the-fly instead
of parsing the ISO 9660 data structures over and over for almost every
request. This yields huge performance improvements.
The directory listing is allocated dynamically, but Minix servers aren't
normally supposed to do that because critical servers would crash if the
system runs out of memory. isofs is quite frugal, won't allocate memory
after having the whole directory tree cached and is not that critical
(its most important job is to serve as a root file system during
installation).
The benefits and elegance of this scheme far outweights this small
problem in practice.
Change-Id: I13d070388c07d274cbee0645cbc50295c447c5b6
