FreeBSD “Working copy ‘/usr/src’ locked.”

Poul-Henning Kamp is working with me on some GBDE fixes. Which means he sends me patches and says “Here, try this,” along with very valuable exposition on how GBDE works and the threat model it applies to. This means I’m updating frequently.

My usual update process is:

# cd /usr/src

# make update && make -j8 buildworld && make -j8 kernel && reboot

Half a second after typing this, I realized I’d forgotten to apply PHK’s latest patch. I hit CTRL-C during the make update before building an unsuitabl...