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@ -863,3 +863,55 @@ header compatibility improvements: |
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- additional flags for poll, epoll, inotify, timerfd, timex, dlfcn |
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- register names in signal.h/ucontext.h for x86 |
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- ipc.h ipc_perm nonstandard struct field name compatibility improve |
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0.9.10 release notes |
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new features: |
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- getifaddrs |
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- pthread_getattr_np (widely used by garbage collectors) |
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- mkostemps, mkostemp, mkstemps functions (mkostemp is future-POSIX) |
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- strcasestr and strverscmp (previously stubs) |
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improvements: |
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- major performance improvements in mbtowc |
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- avoid filling caller-provided thread stacks with large TLS |
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- debloat unnecessary static buffers |
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- robust posix_spawn based on CLONE_VM instead of vfork |
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- new system() and popen() based on posix_spawn |
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- better strerror strings |
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- further emulation of atomic close-on-exec/nonblock options for old kernels |
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- provide macro constants for new-ish kernel features |
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compatibility: |
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- several nonstandard but widely-available pwd/grp/shadow functions |
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- program_invocation_[short_]name |
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- re-added useconds_t type used by some programs |
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- some legacy arpa headers |
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- dn_skipname function (legacy resolver API) |
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- additional ABI aliases for supporting glibc-linked libraries/binaries |
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general bugs fixed: |
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- stale locks and bogus munmap call when pthread_create fails |
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- uninitialized argument to munmap when dynlink load_library fails |
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- incorrect error returns in gethostby*_r |
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- memory leak in gethostbyname family |
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- blank ai_canonname in getaddrinfo for non-CNAME records |
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- undefined HZ macro in scsi/sg.h |
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- wrong return value for wmemmove on forward-copy |
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- namespace conformance in strings.h |
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- various utmp.h bugs |
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- unnecessary DT_SONAME in libc.so caused problems on some systems |
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- multiple bugs in syslog, some possibly dangerous |
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- non-functional setpriority function |
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- slight mishandling of 0xf5 byte in UTF-8 decoder |
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- misaligned memory accesses in mbsrtowcs |
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arch-specific bugs fixed: |
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- crash in shared library loading on arm |
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- missing __aeabi_atexit needed by arm eabi |
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- wrong float_t definition on x86_64 |
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- various low-impact type size/alignment mismatches in some headers |
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- epoll struct alignment wrong on non-x86[_64] archs |
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- broken pipe2 fallback code on mips with old kernels |
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Rich Felker
13 years ago