Re: Shall I make an OpenBSD port of F3? (f3write, f3read)

Am 18.10.22 um 11:57 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
> On 2022/10/16 14:51, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
>> Hello OpenBSD devs!
>> Hello Michel!
>>
>> I'd like OpenBSD to have a package of Michel's software "F3".
>>
>> https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3
>>
>> Today I checked out the snapshot ports tree, but didn't find F3 even there,
>> nor anything in the ports@ archive.
>>
>> Is anyone of you (going to) porting it in the near future?
>>
>> If no, I'm gonna give it a try.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to hear from you.
>>
>> Best,
>> A/K
>>
>
> I've attached a skeleton port for it, but it needs more work, OpenBSD
> doesn't have posix_fadvise() or clock_nanosleep().
>
> There is some code to emulate posix_fadvise for MacOS but it uses various
> fcntl(2) commands that we don't have.
>
As you already mentioned, F3 includes MacOS support which emulates
missing stuff present on other *nixes. I've submitted patches which do
the same for OpenBSD:

https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/pull/186

Ideally Michel accepts them and I'll continue with the Security
Recommendations of the Porting Guide.