Previously, libc.so would initialize its notion of the break address
using _end, a special symbol emitted by the static linker following
the bss section. Compatibility issues between lld and ld.bfd could
cause the wrong definition of _end (libc.so's definition rather than
that of the executable) to be used, breaking the brk()/sbrk()
interface.
Avoid this problem and future interoperability issues by simply not
relying on _end. Instead, modify the break() system call to return
the kernel's view of the current break address, and have libc
initialize its state using an extra syscall upon the first use of the
interface. As a side effect, this appears to fix brk()/sbrk() usage
in executables run with rtld direct exec, since the kernel and libc.so
no longer maintain separate views of the process' break address.
PR: 228574
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
MFC after: 2 months
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15663
More firmly suggest mmap(2) instead.
Include the history of arm64 and riscv shipping without brk/sbrk.
Mention that sbrk(0) produces unreliable results.
Reviewed by: emaste, Marcin Cieślak
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15535
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
Stop calling system calls "function calls".
Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".
When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
and sbrk's prototype from char *sbrk(int) to void *sbrk(intptr_t).
This makes us more consistant with NetBSD and standards which include
these functions. Bruce pointed out that ptrdiff_t would probably
have been better than intptr_t, but this doesn't match other
implimentations.
Also remove local declarations of sbrk and unnecessary casting.
PR: 32296
Tested by: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
MFC after: 1 month
manpage by taking its text from NetBSD and editing it further.
This also improves the page's mdoc(7) markup style.
Reviewed by: ru
Obtained from: NetBSD
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
in a bunch of man pages.
Use the correct .Bx (BSD UNIX) or .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
instead of explicitly specifying the version in the text
in a bunch of man pages.
