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2013-02-17remove unused #undef environ now that libc.h no longer #defines itRich Felker1-1/+0
2013-02-17consistently use the internal name __environ for environRich Felker3-5/+4
patch by Jens Gustedt. previously, the intended policy was to use __environ in code that must conform to the ISO C namespace requirements, and environ elsewhere. this policy was not followed in practice anyway, making things confusing. on top of that, Jens reported that certain combinations of link-time optimization options were breaking with the inconsistent references; this seems to be a compiler or linker bug, but having it go away is a nice side effect of the changes made here.
2013-02-17add fgetgrent functionRich Felker2-0/+13
based on patch by Isaac Dunham, moved to its own file to avoid increasing bss on static linked programs not using this nonstandard function but using the standard getgrent function, and vice versa.
2013-02-07fix typo in newly-added error message for EOWNERDEADRich Felker1-1/+1
2013-02-07improve error stringsRich Felker1-27/+30
this definitely has the potential to be a bikeshed topic, so some justification is in order. most of the changes made fit into one of the following categories: 1. alignment with text in posix, xsh 2.3 2. eliminating overly-specific text for shared error codes 3. making the message match more closely with the macro name 4. removing extraneous words in particular, the EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK text is updated to match the description of EAGAIN (which covers both uses) rather than saying the operation would block, and ENOTSUP/EOPNOTSUPP is updated not to mention sockets. the distinction between ENFILE/EMFILE has also been clarified; ENFILE is aligned with the posix text, and EMFILE, which lacks concise posix text matching any historic message, is updated to emphasize that the exhausted resource is not open files/open file descriptions, but rather the integer 'address space' of file descriptors. some messages may be further tweaked based on feedback.
2013-02-06arm: add __aeabi_atexit()rofl0r1-0/+6
arm eabi requires this symbol for static C++ dtors. usually it is provided by libstdc++, but when a C++ program doesn't use the std lib (free-standing), the libc has to provide it. this was encountered while building transmission, which depends on such a C++ library (libutp). this function is nearly identical to __cxa_atexit, but it has the order of argumens swapped for "performance reasons". see page 25 of http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0043d/IHI0043D_rtabi.pdf there are other aeabi specific C++ support functions missing, but it is not clear yet that GCC makes use of them so we omit them for the moment.
2013-02-06Makefile: make it possible to build arch specific C filesrofl0r1-1/+1
2013-02-03base system() on posix_spawnRich Felker1-41/+26
this avoids duplicating the fragile logic for executing an external program without fork.
2013-02-03fix unsigned comparison bug in posix_spawnRich Felker1-1/+1
read should never return anything but 0 or sizeof ec here, but if it does, we want to treat any other return as "success". then the caller will get back the pid and is responsible for waiting on it when it immediately exits.
2013-02-03overhaul posix_spawn to use CLONE_VM instead of vforkRich Felker3-55/+125
the proposed change was described in detail in detail previously on the mailing list. in short, vfork is unsafe because: 1. the compiler could make optimizations that cause the child to clobber the parent's local vars. 2. strace is buggy and allows the vforking parent to run before the child execs when run under strace. the new design uses a close-on-exec pipe instead of vfork semantics to synchronize the parent and child so that the parent does not return before the child has finished using its arguments (and now, also its stack). this also allows reporting exec failures to the caller instead of giving the caller a child that mysteriously exits with status 127 on exec error. basic testing has been performed on both the success and failure code paths. further testing should be done.
2013-02-03streamline old-kernel fallback path of pipe2 to use syscalls directlyRich Felker1-4/+4
also, don't waste code/time on F_GETFL since pipes always have blank flags initially (at least on old kernels, which are all this fallback code matters for).
2013-02-03fix regression that made shared libs crash on armRich Felker2-0/+4
2013-02-02dynamically allocate storage for gethostby* buffersRich Felker2-10/+32
this change shaves ~1k off libc.so bss size, and also avoids hard errors in the case where the static buffer was not large enough to hold the result. this whole framework is really ugly and might should be replaced or at least heavily overhauled when some changes/factorizations are made to getaddrinfo internals in the future.
2013-02-02fix blank ai_canonname from getaddrinfo for non-CNAMEsRich Felker1-1/+1
2013-02-02fix memory leak due to double call to getaddrinfo in gethostbyname*Rich Felker1-1/+0
2013-02-02fix error returns in gethostby*_r functionsRich Felker2-17/+10
they're supposed to return an error code rather than using errno.
2013-02-02fix uninitialized map_len being used in munmap failure paths in load_libraryRich Felker1-3/+2
this bug seems to have been introduced when the map_library signatures was changed to return the mapping in a temp dso structure instead of into separate variables.
2013-02-01fix stale locks left behind when pthread_create failsRich Felker1-3/+6
this bug seems to have been around a long time.
2013-02-01if pthread_create fails, it must not attempt mmap if there is no mappingRich Felker1-1/+1
this bug was introduced when support for application-provided stacks was originally added.
2013-02-01pthread stack treatment overhaul for application-provided stacks, etc.Rich Felker4-25/+35
the main goal of these changes is to address the case where an application provides a stack of size N, but TLS has size M that's a significant portion of the size N (or even larger than N), thus giving the application less stack space than it expected or no stack at all! the new strategy pthread_create now uses is to only put TLS on the application-provided stack if TLS is smaller than 1/8 of the stack size or 2k, whichever is smaller. this ensures that the application always has "close enough" to what it requested, and the threshold is chosen heuristically to make sure "sane" amounts of TLS still end up in the application-provided stack. if TLS does not fit the above criteria, pthread_create uses mmap to obtain space for TLS, but still uses the application-provided stack for actual call frame stack. this is to avoid wasting memory, and for the sake of supporting ugly hacks like garbage collection based on assumptions that the implementation will use the provided stack range. in order for the above heuristics to ever succeed, the amount of TLS space wasted on POSIX TSD (pthread_key_create based) needed to be reduced. otherwise, these changes would preclude any use of pthread_create without mmap, which would have serious memory usage and performance costs for applications trying to create huge numbers of threads using pre-allocated stack space. the new value of PTHREAD_KEYS_MAX is the minimum allowed by POSIX, 128. this should still be plenty more than real-world applications need, especially now that C11/gcc-style TLS is now supported in musl, and most apps and libraries choose to use that instead of POSIX TSD when available. at the same time, PTHREAD_STACK_MIN has been decreased. it was originally set to PAGE_SIZE back when there was no support for TLS or application-provided stacks, and requests smaller than a whole page did not make sense. now, there are two good reasons to support requests smaller than a page: (1) applications could provide pre-allocated stacks smaller than a page, and (2) with smaller stack sizes, stack+TLS+TSD can all fit in one page, making it possible for applications which need huge numbers of threads with minimal stack needs to allocate exactly one page per thread. the new value of PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, 2k, is aligned with the minimum size for sigaltstack.
2013-02-02make some arrays constrofl0r7-8/+8
this way they'll go into .rodata, decreasing memory pressure.
2013-02-01replace __wake function with macro that performs direct syscallRich Felker2-10/+2
this should generate faster and smaller code, especially with inline syscalls. the conditional with cnt is ugly, but thankfully cnt is always a constant anyway so it gets evaluated at compile time. it may be preferable to make separate __wake and __wakeall macros without a count argument. priv flag is not used yet; private futex support still needs to be done at some point in the future.
2013-02-01fix up minor misplacement of restrict keyword in spawnattr sched stubsRich Felker1-2/+2
2013-02-01release notes for 0.9.9v0.9.9Rich Felker1-0/+56
2013-02-01revert regex "cleanup" that seems unjustified and may break backtrackingRich Felker1-0/+3
it's not clear to me at the moment whether the code that was removed (and which is now being re-added) is needed, but it's far from being a no-op, and i don't want to risk breaking regex in this release.
2013-01-31SOL_TCP is nonstandard and not in the reserved namespaceRich Felker1-2/+1
alternatively, we could define it in sys/socket.h since SO* is reserved there, and tcp.h includes sys/socket.h in extensions mode. note that SOL_TCP is simply wrong and it's only here for compatibility with broken applications. the correct argument to pass for setting TCP socket options is IPPROTO_TCP, which of course has the same value as SOL_TCP but works everywhere.
2013-01-26fix tm_to_time logic for number of days in novemberRich Felker1-1/+1
report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
2013-01-23add RTLD_NODELETE flag for dlopenRich Felker1-0/+1
this is a trivial no-op, because dlclose never deletes libraries. thus we might as well have it in the header in case some application wants it, since we're already providing it anyway.
2013-01-23add support for RTLD_NOLOAD to dlopenRich Felker2-3/+8
based on patch by Pierre Carrier <pierre@gcarrier.fr> that just added the flag constant, but with minimal additional code so that it actually works as documented. this is a nonstandard option but some major software (reportedly, Firefox) uses it and it was easy to add anyway.
2013-01-23fix regression in dlsym: rejection of special RTLD_* handles as invalidRich Felker1-1/+2
2013-01-18use a common definition of NULL as 0L for C and C++Rich Felker8-49/+8
the historical mess of having different definitions for C and C++ comes from the historical C definition as (void *)0 and the fact that (void *)0 can't be used in C++ because it does not convert to other pointer types implicitly. however, using plain 0 in C++ exposed bugs in C++ programs that call variadic functions with NULL as an argument and (wrongly; this is UB) expect it to arrive as a null pointer. on 64-bit machines, the high bits end up containing junk. glibc dodges the issue by using a GCC extension __null to define NULL; this is observably non-conforming because a conforming application could observe the definition of NULL via stringizing and see that it is neither an integer constant expression with value zero nor such an expression cast to void. switching to 0L eliminates the issue and provides compatibility with broken applications, since on all musl targets, long and pointers have the same size, representation, and argument-passing convention. we could maintain separate C and C++ definitions of NULL (i.e. just use 0L on C++ and use (void *)0 on C) but after careful analysis, it seems extremely difficult for a C program to even determine whether NULL has integer or pointer type, much less depend in subtle, unintentional ways, on whether it does. C89 seems to have no way to make the distinction. on C99, the fact that (int)(void *)0 is not an integer constant expression, along with subtle VLA/sizeof semantics, can be used to make the distinction, but many compilers are non-conforming and give the wrong result to this test anyway. on C11, _Generic can trivially make the distinction, but it seems unlikely that code targetting C11 would be so backwards in caring which definition of NULL an implementation uses. as such, the simplest path of using the same definition for NULL in both C and C++ was chosen. the #undef directive was also removed so that the compiler can catch and give a warning or error on redefinition if buggy programs have defined their own versions of NULL prior to inclusion of standard headers.
2013-01-16fix warning building dynlink.c stub for static libcRich Felker1-2/+2
struct dso was not defined in this case, and it's not needed in the code that was using it anyway; void pointers work just as well.
2013-01-16fix bug in dladdr that prevented resolving addresses in the PLTRich Felker1-1/+1
2013-01-15remove unused "params" related code from regexSzabolcs Nagy2-21/+11
some structs and functions had reference to the params feature of tre that is not used by the code anymore
2013-01-14Merge remote-tracking branch 'nsz/math'Rich Felker3-297/+207
2013-01-14regex: remove an unused local variable from regexecSzabolcs Nagy1-3/+0
pos_start local variable is not used in tre_tnfa_run_backtrack
2013-01-13in crypt_des change unnecessary union keybuf into unsigned char[]Szabolcs Nagy1-11/+8
original FreeSec code accessed keybuf as uint32* and uint8* as well (incorrectly), this got fixed with an union, but then it seems the uint32* access is no longer needed so the code can be simplified
2013-01-13crypt: fix the prototype of md5_sum, sha256_sum and sha512_sumSzabolcs Nagy3-3/+3
the internal sha2 hash sum functions had incorrect array size in the prototype for the message digest argument, fixed by using pointer so it is not misleading
2013-01-13fix lio_listio return value in LIO_WAIT modeSzabolcs Nagy1-1/+1
2013-01-12add MOD_TAI to sys/timex.h and update STA_RONLYSzabolcs Nagy1-1/+2
2013-01-12add SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD to sys/swap.hSzabolcs Nagy1-0/+1
2013-01-12add mount flags to sys/mount.hSzabolcs Nagy1-4/+22
added various MS_*, MNT_*, UMOUNT_* flags following the linux headers, with one exception: MS_NOUSER is defined as (1U<<31) instead of (1<<31) which invokes undefined behaviour the S_* flags were removed following glibc
2013-01-12add IN_EXCL_UNLINK to sys/inotify.hSzabolcs Nagy1-0/+1
2013-01-12add EPOLLWAKEUP flag to sys/epoll.hSzabolcs Nagy1-0/+1
2013-01-12add RB_SW_SUSPEND and RB_KEXEC to sys/reboot.hSzabolcs Nagy1-0/+2
using the glibc names for the magic constants of the linux reboot syscall
2013-01-12add missing mmap options and madvices to bits/mman.h based on linux headersSzabolcs Nagy6-0/+41
2013-01-12add missing EXTPROC flag to bits/termios.hSzabolcs Nagy4-0/+4
mips and powerpc already had this termios flag defined
2013-01-12add missing F_GETOWNER_UIDS flag to bits/fcntl.hSzabolcs Nagy6-0/+11
2013-01-12add missing EHWPOISON to bits/errno.hSzabolcs Nagy5-0/+5
it was already defined for mips, but was missing from other archs
2013-01-12add missing ptrace requests and options to sys/ptrace.hSzabolcs Nagy1-1/+9