[illumos-gate] 16119 Update AMD microcode to 20231205 -- Andy Fiddaman <illumos⊙fn>

I assume the changes integrated for python/cpython #113117 will work on illumos too, since posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np() predates the split, but leave it to someone actively running illumos to verify that

Thanks alanc, I'll take a look at that when I get a chance. The next python task I have on my background list is 3.12.

(and hoping at some point they fix dtrace which has been broken since 3.10)

the engineer who submitted that is planning on backporting to our solaris-userland packages for 3.9 & 3.11 after the holidays

i don't know if there'd be interest, but we've added a bunch of _np() extentions to posix spawn (mostly to help with go since it's usually easier to run a command and parse it than to try to call into a shared library)

in upstream illumos? or a downstream distro?

downstream distro

ah, explains why I didn't see them in illumos.org/man/3C

yeah i meant upstream to illumos

somehow I don't think Oracle would be receptive to external Solaris contributions :)

jbk: In general I think we'd be receptive.

Though depends on the specifics and how much they exist on other platforms and/or have conflicting overlaps.

but if they're useful, we might be interested in making our own compatible implementations

jbk: I'm curious what those extensions are...

looks like support for basically setcred() getgroups() setsid(), chdir and chroot

setgroups() ?

kinda surprised chdir() wasn't already there..

oh was looking at the wrong function.. basically setgroups() (the getgroups_np() is there to get the values from the posix_spawnattr_t instance)

asy change is very noticable, serial console seems to be not dropping (sofar) random characters anymore

from a VM, or from serial over lan?