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@ -1082,3 +1082,63 @@ other improvements: |
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- wait.h as a compatibility alias for sys/wait.h |
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- various header improvements |
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- support for runtime-variable page size on archs that need it (mainly mips) |
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0.9.15 release notes |
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new features: |
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- support for mixing IPv4 and v6 nameserver addresses in resolv.conf |
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- RFC 3678 multicast structures/macros in netinet/in.h |
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- putspent and fgetspent functions (shadow password API) |
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- timef function (obsolete, removed in POSIX 2008) |
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- fanotify syscalls (Linux-specific feature) |
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- semtimedop syscall (Linux-specific sysvipc extension) |
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- quotactl syscall and header (filesystem quotas support) |
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- drem and finite functions (obsolete BSD functions) |
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- getloadavg function (non-standard) |
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- herror function (non-standard and obsolete) |
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- libc.so now stores and prints its version information |
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- expose constants for new Linux features including O_TMPFILE |
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- implement FNM_LEADING_DIR option to fnmatch (GNU extension) |
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- posix_close function (accepted for inclusion in next POSIX issue) |
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bugs fixed: |
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- buffer overflow in mbsrtowcs |
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- clobbering of gr_name in getgrnam_r and getgrgid_r |
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- execle ignoring the environment argument |
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- setenv crash on malloc failure |
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- out-of-bounds access in fnmatch with FNM_PATHNAME and certain patterns |
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- failure of malloc to set errno when failing to extend heap |
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- incorrect errno value from getcwd with zero size |
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- spurious failure in faccessat with AT_EACCESS flag with suid/sgid programs |
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- several fd leaks due to missing close-on-exec flag |
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- misspellings/typos in macro names in several headers |
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- incorrect failure return value in inet_pton |
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- various numeric ip address parsing and validation fixes |
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- namespace conformance issues in several headers |
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- minor header issues |
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- zombie processes left by faccessat with AT_EACCESS |
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- timezone file parser failing/crashing on 64-bit archs |
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- hang in localtime with near-overflowing time_t values on 64-bit archs |
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- timezone path search was only trying first path |
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- incorrect handling of excessive-length TZ environment strings |
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- timezone file loading was wrongly enforcing O_NOFOLLOW/rejecting symlinks |
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- iswspace was wrongly returning true for the null character |
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- various bugs in wordexp |
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- putgrent could write corrupt lines after write failures |
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- dn_expand misinterpreted in-packet offsets greater than 255 |
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- spurious strftime/wcsftime failure on len+1==bufsize case |
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- incorrect underflow flag in fma corner cases |
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- log*(0) wrongly returned +inf in downward-rounding mode |
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- failure of fchmod, fstat, fchdir, and fchown to produce EBADF |
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arch-specific bugs fixed: |
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- i386: failure of fesetround to set sse rounding mode |
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- i386: floating point limit constants misinterpreted due to excess precision |
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- powerpc: broken thread pointer access when compiled with clang |
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- microblaze: dynamic linker entry point code possibly clobbering argv |
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strict conformance issues: |
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- NULL definition re-aligned with POSIX (requires (void *) cast) |
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- alignment of math.h is* comparison functions with C11 annex F requirements |
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Rich Felker
13 years ago