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g2k14: Ken Westerback on DHCP and dump(8)

Contributed by tbert on from the electric-boogaloo dept.

Having missed Ljubljana 1, I looked forward to Ljubljana 2 with great expectations. I was not disappointed! Mitja ran a great hackathon with a nice site and an excellent city around it.

I arrived with a bunch of M's in my tree that had been making no headway against the LibreSSL gale. Mostly to do with fixing daemons using IMSG, and in particular msgbuf_write(). I found that standing next to the relevant developers and looking sad was very effective and got all the M's resolved. At which point claudio@ pointed out they could all be improved futher. Sigh.

In addition, I noticed that dhclient(8) was writing out resolv.conf(5) a few more times than necessary (twice when binding and once when going away) and I got that down to once. Unfortunately killing several developers' machines by inducing hard renew loops for a while. But it was a hackathon, so that was ok.

I worked with yasuoka@ to get some of his dhcpd fixes and enhancements in, and adapted a fix he had received for dhclient handling of classless routes.

I also committed the dump(8) fixes for 4K sector devices. A bunch of msdos and ffs fixes from tobias@ also got my oks, as did some initial GPT support from Markus Mueller, one of our GSOC students.

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  1. By Miod Vallat (miod) miod@openbsd.org on

    Come on, you looking sad would be like a teletubby high on acid.

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    1. By Marc Espie (espie) on

      > Come on, you looking sad would be like a teletubby high on acid.

      You weren't sitting next to him. I can vouch that Ken looking sad is indeed a sad puppy. I was collateral damage, considering I just saw the sad face but was not involved in those Ms...

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      1. By Miod Vallat (miod) on

        > > Come on, you looking sad would be like a teletubby high on acid.
        >
        > You weren't sitting next to him. I can vouch that Ken looking sad is indeed a sad puppy. I was collateral damage, considering I just saw the sad face but was not involved in those Ms...
        >

        I think that superficial sadness you witnessed was caused by (lack of) truffles and cheese.

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        1. By Marc Espie (espie) on

          > > > Come on, you looking sad would be like a teletubby high on acid.
          > >
          > > You weren't sitting next to him. I can vouch that Ken looking sad is indeed a sad puppy. I was collateral damage, considering I just saw the sad face but was not involved in those Ms...
          > >
          >
          > I think that superficial sadness you witnessed was caused by (lack of) truffles and cheese.

          Oh, agreed, the sad look could definitely be interpreted as sad puppy without enough cheese.

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