otherwise, 32-bit archs that could otherwise share the generic
bits/ipc.h would need to duplicate the struct ipc_perm definition,
obscuring the fact that it's the same. sysvipc is not widely used and
these headers are not commonly included, so there is no performance
gain to be had by limiting the number of indirectly included files
here.
files with the existing time32 definition of IPC_STAT are added to all
current 32-bit archs now, so that when it's changed the change will
show up as a change rather than addition of a new file where it's less
obvious that the value is changing vs the generic one that was used
before.
to make use of {sem,shm,msg}ctl IPC_STAT functionality to provide
64-bit time_t on 32-bit archs, IPC_STAT and related macros must be
defined with bit 8 (0x100) set. allow archs to define IPC_STAT in
bits/ipc.h, and define the other macros in terms of it so that they
all get the same value of the time64 bit.
despite glibc using __key and __seq rather than key and seq, some
applications, notably busybox, assume the names are key and seq unless
glibc is being used. and the names key and seq are really the ones
that _should_ be exposed when not attempting to present a
standards-conforming namespace; apps should not be using names that
begin with double-underscore. thus, the optimal fix is to use key and
seq as the actual names of the members when in bsd/gnu source profile,
and define macros for __key and __seq that redirect to plain key and
seq.
previously the names were exposed as key/seq with _GNU_SOURCE and
__ipc_perm_key/__ipc_perm/seq otherwise, whereas glibc always uses
__key and __seq for the names. thus, the old behavior never matched
glibc, and the new behavior always does, regardless of feature test
macros.
for now, i'm leaving the renaming here in sys/ipc.h where it's easy to
change globally for all archs, in case something turns out to be
wrong, but eventually the names could just be incorporated directly
into the bits headers for each arch and the renaming removed.
the old behavior of exposing nothing except plain ISO C can be
obtained by defining __STRICT_ANSI__ or using a compiler option (such
as -std=c99) that predefines it. the new default featureset is POSIX
with XSI plus _BSD_SOURCE. any explicit feature test macros will
inhibit the default.
installation docs have also been updated to reflect this change.
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outdated ancient "non-64" versions of the kernel interface.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.
Rich Felker
rofl0r