prior to commit 685e40bb09, x86_64 was
correctly passing O_LARGEFILE to SYS_open; it was removed (defined to
0 in the public header, and changed to use the public definition) as
part of that change, probably out of a mistaken belief that it's not
needed.
however, on a mixed system with 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, it's
important that all files be opened with O_LARGEFILE, even if the
opening process is 64-bit, in case a descriptor is passed to a 32-bit
process. otherwise, attempts to access past 2GB in the 32-bit process
could produce EOVERFLOW.
most 64-bit archs added later got this right alread, except for
mips64. x32 was also affected. there are now fixed.
while it's the same for all presently supported archs, it differs at
least on sparc, and conceptually it's no less arch-specific than the
other O_* macros. O_SEARCH and O_EXEC are still defined in terms of
O_PATH in the main fcntl.h.
put some macros that do not differ between architectures in the
main header and remove from bits.
restructure mips header so it has the same structure as the others.
I'm not 100% sure that Linux's O_PATH meets the POSIX requirements for
O_SEARCH, but it seems very close if not perfect. and old kernels
ignore it, so O_SEARCH will still work as desired as long as the
caller has read permissions to the directory.
on old kernels, there's no way to detect errors; we must assume
negative syscall return values are pgrp ids. but if the F_GETOWN_EX
fcntl works, we can get a reliable answer.
fcntl values 1024 and up are universal, arch-independent. later I'll
add some of the other linux-specific ones for notify, leases, pipe
size, etc. here too.
with this patch, the syscallN() functions are no longer needed; a
variadic syscall() macro allows syscalls with anywhere from 0 to 6
arguments to be made with a single macro name. also, manually casting
each non-integer argument with (long) is no longer necessary; the
casts are hidden in the macros.
some source files which depended on being able to define the old macro
SYSCALL_RETURNS_ERRNO have been modified to directly use __syscall()
instead of syscall(). references to SYSCALL_SIGSET_SIZE and SYSCALL_LL
have also been changed.
x86_64 has not been tested, and may need a follow-up commit to fix any
minor bugs/oversights.
Rich Felker
rofl0r
Szabolcs Nagy
Nicholas J. Kain