ferror(), fileno() and clearerr(), using the value of __isthreaded to
decide between the fast inline single-threaded code and the more
general function equivalent. This gives most of the performance
benefits of the old unsafe macros while preserving thread safety.
structure and call stdio functions. In 5.X this was broken when FILE
locking was introduced into libc.
This change makes most (relevant) stdio functions work again when the
_extra file in FILE isn't initialised (and can't be without a libc
function to do it since the __sFILEX structure is private to libc).
cleanups, handling 'ls -l-', handling '--*'
Note this is in the same time back out of our v1.3
"Don't print an error message if the bad option is '?'"
because it directly violates POSIX.
that this provokes. "Wherever possible" means "In the kernel OR NOT
C++" (implying C).
There are places where (void *) pointers are not valid, such as for
function pointers, but in the special case of (void *)0, agreement
settles on it being OK.
Most of the fixes were NULL where an integer zero was needed; many
of the fixes were NULL where ascii <nul> ('\0') was needed, and a
few were just "other".
Tested on: i386 sparc64
- Fix syntax
- Remove the (slightly wrong) duplicate explanation of the error condition
- Change reference to invalid multibyte character into invalid wide character
The getaddrinfo(3), getipnodebyname(3) and resolver(3) can coincide now
with what should be totally reentrant, and h_errno values will now
be preserved correctly, but this does not affect interfaces such as
gethostbyname(3) which are still mostly non-reentrant.
In all of these relevant functions, the thread-safety has been pushed
down as far as it seems possible right now. This means that operations
that are selected via nsdispatch(3) (i.e. files, yp, dns) are protected
still under global locks that getaddrinfo(3) defines, but where possible
the locking is greatly reduced. The most noticeable improvement is
that multiple DNS lookups can now be run at the same time, and this
shows major improvement in performance of DNS-lookup threaded programs,
and solves the "Mozilla tab serialization" problem.
No single-threaded applications need to be recompiled. Multi-threaded
applications that reference "_res" to change resolver(3) options will
need to be recompiled, and ones which reference "h_errno" will also
if they desire the correct h_errno values. If the applications already
understood that _res and h_errno were not thread-safe and had their own
locking, they will see no performance improvement but will not
actually break in any way.
Please note that when NSS modules are used, or when nsdispatch(3)
defaults to adding any lookups of its own to the individual libc
_nsdispatch() calls, those MUST be reentrant as well.
