on reboot timing out on DNS problems.

combines binary search and table lookup.
tested on i386, sparc, ppc, hppa

constant).  These are not security holes but it is worth fixing
them anyway both for robustness and so folks looking for examples
in the tree are not misled into doing something potentially dangerous.
Furthermore, it is a bad idea to assume that pathnames will not
include '%' in them and that error routines don't return strings
with '%' in them (especially in light of the possibility of locales).

per art's recommendation.  Now we are uptodate :-)

- NOMAKEDEV to optionally skip making devices
- allow building aliases.db under /var/tmp
will come in handy with mergemaster; ok millert@

ipv6 address.

16 slices per disk instead of 8 previously ; and tidy things a bit

Thanks cd@sentia.nl

for pointing out this evaded the last commit

- new installs wont have existing ifaliases
- updates dont touch /etc
- manual updates of /etc/ should know what they're doing anyway
fwiw, see hostname.if(5) alias functionality has moved here for better
overall network configurability

changed so files are e.g. backups/etc_passwd not backups/_etc_passwd

Clarify point about always NUL-terminating.

symbolic links (the -h flag is for compatibility only); millert@ ok

add commented out entry into sysctl.conf for vfs.nfs.iothreads

REMEMBER TO UPDATE YOUR TREE BEFORE REBUILD! This *will* be used shortly.

when the monitor is blanked.

problem due to type promotion).  PR 1228.

Enable by setting DEBUGLIBS=yes in /etc/mk.conf, then -g libraries will get
installed in /usr/lib/debug.  This directory will be searched first if
gcc is given the -g flag during the link stage.

.. ok deraadt@, millert@