it around an application's fork() call. Our new thread libraries
(libthr, libpthread) can now have threads running while another
thread calls fork(). In this case, it is possible for malloc
to be left in an inconsistent state in the child. Our thread
libraries, libpthread in particular, need to use malloc internally
after a fork (in the child).
Reviewed by: davidxu
send strhash(3) off to sleep with the fishes. Nothing in our tree uses it.
It has no documentation. It is nonstandard and in spite of the filename
strhash.c and strhash.h, it lives in application namespace by providing
compulsory global symbols hash_create()/hash_destroy()/hash_search()/
hash_traverse()/hash_purge()/hash_stats() regardless of whether you
#include <strhash.h> or not. If it turns out that there is a huge
application for this after all, I can repocopy it somewhere safer and
we can revive it elsewhere. But please, not in libc!
technique) so that we don't wind up calling into an application's
version if the application defines them.
Inspired by: qpopper's interfering and buggy version of strlcpy
package, a more recent, generalized set of routines. Among the
changes:
- Declare strtof() and strtold() in stdlib.h.
- Add glue to libc to support these routines for all kinds
of ``long double''.
- Update printf() to reflect the fact that dtoa works slightly
differently now.
As soon as I see that nothing has blown up, I will kill
src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.c. Soon printf() will be able
to use the new routines to output long doubles without loss
of precision, but numerous bugs in the existing code must
be addressed first.
Reviewed by: bde (briefly), mike (mentor), obrien
seed->first value correlation. It breaks rand_r()... Other possible methods
like shuffling inside aray will breaks rand_r() too, because it assumes
only one word state, i.e. nothing extra can be added after seed assignment
in srand().
BTW, for old formulae seed->first value correlation is not so monotonically
increased as with other Linear Congruential Generators of this type only
becase arithmetic overflow happens. But overflow affects distribution
and lower bits very badly, as many articles says, such type of overflow
not improves PRNG.
So, monotonically increased seed->first value correlation problem remains...
to remove part of seed -> 1st value correlation. Correlation still remains
because of algorithm limits. Note that old algorithm have even stronger
correlation, especially in the lower bits area, but not eye-visible, as
current one.
at 0 as designed. Its BSD adaptation tries to fight it by mapping 0 to
2147483647 after calculation, but this method not works since 2147483647
seed returns to 0 again on the next interation. Instead of after calculation
mapping, map 0 to another value _before_ calculation, so it never stucks.
to be called on first sight of trouble.
"sensitive" is somewhat arbitrarily defined as "setuid, setgid, uid == root
or gid == wheel".
The 'A' option carries no performance penalty.
It is not possible to override this setting: fix the program instead.
Absentmindedly nodded OK to by: various
to Solaris, it is in /usr/libexec) to perform the handing over of tty nodes
to the user being granted the pty.
Submitted by: Ryan Younce <ryany@pobox.com>
Reviewed by: security-officer@, standards@, mike@
architecture, mainly to avoid getting a SIGFPE signal sent
when calling strtod(3) with certain input.
The SIGFPE has been sent because the code was not aware that
a Gradual Underflow is handled in software via traps on the
Alpha architecture, but is not implemented in our Alpha kernel
layer.
With `Sudden_Underflow' defined, strtod(3) should not depend
on Gradual Underflow and adjust its calculations accordingly,
which means that other, more subtle errors than the sending of
SIGFPE could be solved by this.
Discussed with: bde
PR: alpha/12623
PR: alpha/17032
PR: alpha/43567
MFC after: 7 days
the compatibility library libcompat.
- Add new implementations of lsearch() and lfind() which conform to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 to libc. Add a new manual page for them and
add them to the makefile.
- Add function prototypes for lsearch() and lfind() to the search.h
header.
page from the compatibility library.
- Add new implementations of insque() and remque() which conform to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 to libc. Add a new manual page for them and
connect them to the build.
- Add the prototypes of insque() and remque() to the search.h
header.
(at least the French ones), a memory leak upon successful termination, a
pointer arithmetic error causing heap corruption, and an off-by-one bug
causing incorrect amounts of padding at the right of the value.
definitions of the functions that convert strings to numbers
and are defined by IEEE Std 1003-1.2001.
- Use ANSI-C function definitions for all of the functions
mentioned above plus strtouq and strtoq.
- Update the prototypes in the manual pages.
to cause bugs when gcc is more aggressively optimising things.
There are still problems with dtoa mentioned in the PR - maybe
Dan could suggest a patch.
PR: 40209
Submitted by: Dan Lukes <dan@obluda.cz>
Approved by: bde
MFC after: 2 weeks
Hopefully, now it is more clear that the memory referenced by the
ptr argument of realloc(ptr,size) is freed and only the return value
of realloc() points to a valid memory area upon successful completion.
Submitted by: Martin Faxer <gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se>
