And to conclude this 2014 year ...

Hi folks,

In right time, the new BSDMag issue arrived. It contains many well written and interesting topics ... Dtrace, Python tips and my article about HardenedBSD, focused this time on my contributions mainly. Even if I am less "stunned" than with the first article, it is still amazing to me to appear in this excellent magazine. As always, was a great pleasure to write it.

So, I wish you the best for the following 2015 year ;-)

Bugs, bugs, bugs ...

Hi folks,

I m awaiting the great talk Shawn Webb will give this week end, I ll watch it once available for sure.
Meanwhile, things evolve smoothly for HardenedBSD, some FreeBSD are looking at it with interest, Oliver works hard to make Pax features better. In my side, I am still taking care of bugs in my own branch, some will be pushed upstream (one is already anyway ...), while I deal with more and more FreeBSD commiters, even more generally with other BSD people as well. I particularly like productive exchanges like this instead of making "flamewars" to each other.
There is no point and this is not interesting at all ;-)
This is quite good to get known with people I knew only via articles and such :-)

For last I wanted particularly thank Sean Bruno and Pedro Giffuni for their efforts.

HardenedBSD slight updates

Hi folks,

I am still a new bee in FreeBSD development, Oliver and Shawn still give me good advices to do things better. Still thanks to them ;-). Somehow was able to make progress in the userlandenhanced branch, made the necessary strtonum optimisation (first time I touch something in the libc, although strtonum is not standard ... Around 5% of performance gain, the important thing is to avoid breaking reentrancy and such ...), hence uses it in more utilities instead of the legacy atoi. Also I was trying to solve some bugs (like segfault with BSDgrep, I hope Gabor will be happy with it :-)).

Apart of this branch, all of these are available too with all other amazing features from Shawn and Oliver in the unstable branch.

HardenedBSD updates

Hi folks,

Shawn is willing to work on a ugidfw replacement : secfw which will work with json-c (I used it for my company a while ago and it works very fine). Meanwhile, Oliver wants to extends FS-XATTR for
PAX_XATTR_PAX_FLAGS support. Anyway I thank them for their patience ;-)

In my side, just created the "modestly" named userlandenhanced new branch which provides various small fixes/updates from our own or if we think grabbing code from DragonflyBSD and such might be useful to integrate (recently I updated systat to provide ALTQ informations display).

So I ll switch between pure kernel development and this branch for next.