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2011-04-14make tmpfile slightly more efficient (use unlink syscall instead of remove)Rich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-14change sem_trywait algorithm so it never has to call __wakeRich Felker1-3/+2
2011-04-14cheap trick to further optimize locking normal mutexesRich Felker2-2/+2
2011-04-14use a separate signal from SIGCANCEL for SIGEV_THREAD timersRich Felker6-11/+29
otherwise we cannot support an application's desire to use asynchronous cancellation within the callback function. this change also slightly debloats pthread_create.c.
2011-04-13simplify cancellation point handlingRich Felker2-16/+5
we take advantage of the fact that unless self->cancelpt is 1, cancellation cannot happen. so just increment it by 2 to temporarily block cancellation. this drops pthread_create.o well under 1k.
2011-04-13simplify syslog, add vsyslog interface (nonstandard)Rich Felker1-31/+36
with datagram sockets, depending on fprintf not to flush the output early was very fragile; the new version simply uses a small fixed-size buffer. it could be updated to dynamic-allocate large buffers if needed, but i can't envision any admin being happy about finding 64kb-long lines in their syslog...
2011-04-13remove useless SIGPIPE protection from syslogRich Felker1-9/+0
per the standard, SIGPIPE is not generated for SOCK_DGRAM.
2011-04-13fix syslog (corrected SIGPIPE blocking, and using dgram instead of stream)Rich Felker1-10/+8
it actually appears the hacks to block SIGPIPE are probably not necessary, and potentially harmful. if i can confirm this, i'll remove them.
2011-04-13numerous fixes to sysv ipcRich Felker3-5/+5
some of these definitions were just plain wrong, others based on outdated ancient "non-64" versions of the kernel interface. as much as possible has now been moved out of bits/* these changes break abi (the old abi for these functions was wrong), but since they were not working anyway it can hardly matter.
2011-04-13add syscall wrapper for flockRich Felker1-0/+7
it should be noted that flock does not mix well with standard fcntl locking, but nonetheless some applications will attempt to use flock instead of fcntl if both exist. options to configure or small patches may be needed. debian maintainers have plenty of experience with this unfortunate situation...
2011-04-13fix bug whereby getopt_long allowed mismatch in last char of option nameRich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-13implement getgrouplist (for initgroups), formerly dummied-outv0.7.8Rich Felker1-4/+16
2011-04-13fix prototypes/signature for setgroups, etc.Rich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-13implement memrchr (nonstandard) and optimize strrchr in terms of itRich Felker2-4/+15
2011-04-13add ptsname_r (nonstandard) and split ptsname (standard) to separate fileRich Felker2-11/+16
this eliminates the ugly static buffer in programs that use ptsname_r.
2011-04-12speed up threaded forkRich Felker1-2/+1
after fork, we have a new process and the pid is equal to the tid of the new main thread. there is no need to make two separate syscalls to obtain the same number.
2011-04-12optimize ntohl etc. in terms of bswap functionsRich Felker4-20/+12
we can do this without violating the namespace now that they are macros/inline functions rather than extern functions. the motivation is that gcc was generating giant, slow, horrible code for the old functions, and now generates a single byte-swapping instruction.
2011-04-12move bswap functions to static inline in byteswap.hRich Felker2-16/+0
2011-04-12fix broken bswap_32Rich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-12fix printf("%.9g", 1.1) and similar not dropping trailing zerosRich Felker1-1/+3
2011-04-11fix errno handling in scandir:Rich Felker1-2/+1
1. saved errno was not being restored, illegally clearing errno to 0. 2. no need to backup and save errno around free; it will not touch except perhaps when the program has already invoked UB...
2011-04-11fix fputwc return valueRich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-11remove ugly warning-suppression hack from crypt - this invokes UB!Rich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-09run pthread tsd destructors when a timer thread pretends to exitRich Felker1-0/+6
2011-04-09greatly improve SIGEV_THREAD timersRich Felker3-15/+21
calling pthread_exit from, or pthread_cancel on, the timer callback thread will no longer destroy the timer.
2011-04-09work around a nasty bug in linux readv syscallRich Felker1-3/+4
according to posix, readv "shall be equivalent to read(), except..." that it places the data into the buffers specified by the iov array. however on linux, when reading from a terminal, each iov element behaves almost like a separate read. this means that if the first iov exactly satisfied the request (e.g. a length-one read of '\n') and the second iov is nonzero length, the syscall will block again after getting the blank line from the terminal until another line is read. simply put, entering a single blank line becomes impossible. the solution, fortunately, is simple. whenever the buffer size is nonzero, reduce the length of the requested read by one byte and let the last byte go through the buffer. this way, readv will already be in the second (and last) iov, and won't re-block on the second iov.
2011-04-08better fix sysconf pthread stack minRich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-08consistency with pthread stack min in limits.hRich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-08fix broken sigsetjmp on x86_64Rich Felker1-7/+9
2011-04-08workaround broken msghdr struct on 64bit linuxRich Felker2-0/+21
POSIX clearly specifies the type of msg_iovlen and msg_controllen, and Linux ignores it and makes them both size_t instead. to work around this we add padding (instead of just using the wrong types like glibc does), but we also need to patch-up the struct before passing it to the kernel in case the caller did not zero-fill it. if i could trust the kernel to just ignore the upper 32 bits, this would not be necessary, but i don't think it will ignore them...
2011-04-08fix ipv6 address printing: 2001 appeared as 201, etc.Rich Felker1-3/+5
2011-04-08fix broken dns response parsing code that made most ipv6 lookups failRich Felker1-4/+6
2011-04-08return the requested string as the "canonical name" for numeric addressesRich Felker1-0/+1
previously NULL was returned in ai_canonname, resulting in crashes in some callers. this behavior was incorrect. note however that the new behavior differs from glibc, which performs reverse dns lookups. POSIX is very clear that a reverse DNS lookup must not be performed for numeric addresses.
2011-04-07fix uninitialized variables in dns lookup codeRich Felker1-2/+2
2011-04-07fix bug in TRE found by clang (typo && instead of &)Rich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-07fix misplaced *'s in string functions (harmless)Rich Felker3-3/+3
2011-04-07fix broken unsigned comparison in wcstoumaxRich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-07fix breakage due to converting a return type to size_t in iconv...Rich Felker1-1/+1
2011-04-06fixed crash in new rsyscall (failure to set sa_flags for signal handler)Rich Felker1-0/+2
2011-04-06consistency: change all remaining syscalls to use SYS_ rather than __NR_ prefixRich Felker38-40/+40
2011-04-06move rsyscall out of pthread_create moduleRich Felker10-109/+133
this is something of a tradeoff, as now set*id() functions, rather than pthread_create, are what pull in the code overhead for dealing with linux's refusal to implement proper POSIX thread-vs-process semantics. my motivations are: 1. it's cleaner this way, especially cleaner to optimize out the rsyscall locking overhead from pthread_create when it's not needed. 2. it's expected that only a tiny number of core system programs will ever use set*id() functions, whereas many programs may want to use threads, and making thread overhead tiny is an incentive for "light" programs to try threads.
2011-04-06pthread exit stuff: don't bother setting errno when we won't check it.Rich Felker1-2/+2
2011-04-06fix rsyscall handler: must not clobber errno from signal contextRich Felker1-2/+4
2011-04-06add startup abi functions, dummy for now. eventually needed for c++ support.Rich Felker2-0/+10
2011-04-06add _res (__res_state()) dummyRich Felker1-0/+9
2011-04-06fix prototype for strsepRich Felker1-0/+1
2011-04-06fix completely bogus loop condition in getmntent_rRich Felker1-1/+1
somehow this worked on my simple fstab, but horribly broke in general, leading to use of uninitialized offset array and crashes.
2011-04-06major semaphore improvements (performance and correctness)Rich Felker5-21/+37
1. make sem_[timed]wait interruptible by signals, per POSIX 2. keep a waiter count in order to avoid unnecessary futex wake syscalls
2011-04-06fix signal-based timers with null sigevent argumentRich Felker5-28/+19
since timer_create is no longer allocating a structure for the timer_t and simply using the kernel timer id, it was impossible to specify the timer_t as the argument to the signal handler. the solution is to pass the null sigevent pointer on to the kernel, rather than filling it in userspace, so that the kernel does the right thing. however, that precludes the clever timerid-versus-threadid encoding we were doing. instead, just assume timerids are below 1M and thread pointers are above 1M. (in perspective: timerids are sequentially allocated and seem limited to 32k, and thread pointers are at roughly 3G.)
2011-04-06fix incorrect (and conflicting on LP64 archs) types for sysv ipc msgq functionsRich Felker1-1/+1