13:48:44 [illumos-gate] 16119 Update AMD microcode to 20231205 -- Andy Fiddaman 16:55:11 I assume the changes integrated for https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/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 17:06:45 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. 17:07:00 (and hoping at some point they fix dtrace which has been broken since 3.10) 17:14:12 the engineer who submitted that is planning on backporting to our solaris-userland packages for 3.9 & 3.11 after the holidays 17:39:43 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) 17:44:56 in upstream illumos? or a downstream distro? 17:45:56 downstream distro 17:46:35 ah, explains why I didn't see them in https://illumos.org/man/3C/ 17:47:03 yeah i meant upstream to illumos 17:47:30 somehow I don't think Oracle would be receptive to external Solaris contributions :) 17:59:10 jbk: In general I think we'd be receptive. 17:59:26 Though depends on the specifics and how much they exist on other platforms and/or have conflicting overlaps. 17:59:37 but if they're useful, we might be interested in making our own compatible implementations 19:28:23 jbk: I'm curious what those extensions are... 19:43:39 looks like support for basically setcred() getgroups() setsid(), chdir and chroot 19:56:45 setgroups() ? 20:09:19 kinda surprised chdir() wasn't already there.. 20:19:53 oh was looking at the wrong function.. basically setgroups() (the getgroups_np() is there to get the values from the posix_spawnattr_t instance) 23:40:04 asy change is very noticable, serial console seems to be not dropping (sofar) random characters anymore 23:40:43 from a VM, or from serial over lan?