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2022-05-01drop use of stat operation in temporary file name generationRich Felker1-5/+3
this change serves two purposes: 1. it eliminates one of the few remaining uses of the kernel stat structure which will not be present in future archs, avoiding the need for growing ifdef logic here. 2. it potentially makes the operations less expensive when the candidate exists as a non-symlink by avoiding the need to read the inode (assuming the directory tables suffice to distinguish symlinks). this uses the idiom I discovered while rewriting realpath for commit 29ff7599a448232f2527841c2362643d246cee36 of being able to use the readlink operation as an inexpensive probe for file existence that doesn't following symlinks.
2020-02-12fix remaining direct use of stat syscalls outside fstatat.cRich Felker1-2/+3
because struct stat is no longer assumed to correspond to the structure used by the stat-family syscalls, it's not valid to make any of these syscalls directly using a buffer of type struct stat. commit 9493892021eac4edf1776d945bcdd3f7a96f6978 moved all logic around this change for stat-family functions into fstatat.c, making the others wrappers for it. but a few other direct uses of the syscall were overlooked. the ones in tmpnam/tempnam are harmless since the syscalls are just used to test for file existence. however, the uses in fchmodat and __map_file depend on getting accurate file properties, and these functions may actually have been broken one or more mips variants due to removal of conversion hacks from syscall_arch.h. as a low-risk fix, simply use struct kstat in place of struct stat in the affected places.
2018-09-12overhaul internally-public declarations using wrapper headersRich Felker1-2/+1
commits leading up to this one have moved the vast majority of libc-internal interface declarations to appropriate internal headers, allowing them to be type-checked and setting the stage to limit their visibility. the ones that have not yet been moved are mostly namespace-protected aliases for standard/public interfaces, which exist to facilitate implementing plain C functions in terms of POSIX functionality, or C or POSIX functionality in terms of extensions that are not standardized. some don't quite fit this description, but are "internally public" interfacs between subsystems of libc. rather than create a number of newly-named headers to declare these functions, and having to add explicit include directives for them to every source file where they're needed, I have introduced a method of wrapping the corresponding public headers. parallel to the public headers in $(srcdir)/include, we now have wrappers in $(srcdir)/src/include that come earlier in the include path order. they include the public header they're wrapping, then add declarations for namespace-protected versions of the same interfaces and any "internally public" interfaces for the subsystem they correspond to. along these lines, the wrapper for features.h is now responsible for the definition of the hidden, weak, and weak_alias macros. this means source files will no longer need to include any special headers to access these features. over time, it is my expectation that the scope of what is "internally public" will expand, reducing the number of source files which need to include *_impl.h and related headers down to those which are actually implementing the corresponding subsystems, not just using them.
2015-08-09fix failure of tempnam to null-terminate resultRich Felker1-0/+1
tempnam uses an uninitialized buffer which is filled using memcpy and __randname. It is therefore necessary to explicitly null-terminate it. based on patch by Felix Janda.
2014-05-29support linux kernel apis (new archs) with old syscalls removedRich Felker1-0/+5
such archs are expected to omit definitions of the SYS_* macros for syscalls their kernels lack from arch/$ARCH/bits/syscall.h. the preprocessor is then able to select the an appropriate implementation for affected functions. two basic strategies are used on a case-by-case basis: where the old syscalls correspond to deprecated library-level functions, the deprecated functions have been converted to wrappers for the modern function, and the modern function has fallback code (omitted at the preprocessor level on new archs) to make use of the old syscalls if the new syscall fails with ENOSYS. this also improves functionality on older kernels and eliminates the incentive to program with deprecated library-level functions for the sake of compatibility with older kernels. in other situations where the old syscalls correspond to library-level functions which are not deprecated but merely lack some new features, such as the *at functions, the old syscalls are still used on archs which support them. this may change at some point in the future if or when fallback code is added to the new functions to make them usable (possibly with reduced functionality) on old kernels.
2014-05-27overhaul tmpfile, tmpnam, and tempnam functionsRich Felker1-27/+28
these all now use the shared __randname function internally, rather than duplicating logic for producing a random name. incorrect usage of the access syscall (which works with real uid/gid, not effective) has been removed, along with unnecessary heavy dependencies like snprintf.
2011-06-13avoid 64bit warnings when using pointers as entropy for temp namesRich Felker1-1/+2
2011-03-29fix tempnam name generation, and a small bug in tmpnam on retry limitRich Felker1-20/+19
2011-02-12initial check-in, version 0.5.0v0.5.0Rich Felker1-0/+42