sigvec(2) references have been updated to sigaction(2), sigsetmask(2) and
sigblock(2) to sigprocmask(2), sigpause(2) to sigsuspend(2).
Some legacy man pages still refer to them, that is OK.
* un-document 'struct sigaltstack' tag for stack_t as this is BSD-specific;
this doesn't seem useful enough to document as such
* alternate stacks are per thread, not per process
* update error codes to what the kernel does and POSIX requires
MFC after: 1 week
Also add xrefs for confstr(3) (as sysconf(3) but for strings) and kvm(3)
(which is a more convenient way to access some of the variables).
PR: 116480
MFC after: 1 week
SUSv4 requires that implementation returns EINVAL if supplied path is NULL,
and ENOENT if path is empty string [1].
Bring prototype in conformance with SUSv4, adding restrict keywords.
Allow the resolved path buffer pointer be NULL, in which case realpath(3)
allocates storage with malloc().
PR: kern/121897 [1]
MFC after: 2 weeks
Simplify the presented declaration of struct sigaction, noting the
caveat in the text. Real layout of the structure and exposed
implementation namespace only obfuscates the usage.
Submitted by: bde
MFC after: 3 days
POSIX permits but does not require checking access on the current and parent
directories.
Because various programs do not like it if getcwd(3) fails, it seems best
to avoid checking access as much as possible. There are various reports in
GNATS about this (search for getcwd).
Our getcwd(3) implementation first queries the kernel for the pathname
directly, which does not check any permissions but sometimes fails, and then
falls back to reading all parent directories for the names.
PR: standards/44425
MFC after: 2 weeks
Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)
Be explicit and use the general bracketing form plus symbols which are
to be interpreted mathematically in this case.
Complaint by: mdocml
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)
rounding (impl. dep. #55), the SPARC JPS1 responsible for SPARC64 and
UltraSPARC processors defines that in all cases tininess is detected
before rounding therefore rounding up to the smallest normalized number
should set the underflow flag. This change is needed for using SoftFloat
on sparc64 for reference purposes.
PR: 144900
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy
This fix mostly matters after r206129 that made it possible for
st_blksize to be greater than 4K. For this reason, this change should
be MFC-ed before r206129.
Also, it seems that all FreeBSD uitlities that use db(3) hash databases
and create new databases in files, specify their own block size value
and thus do not depend on block size autotuning.
PR: bin/144446
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
MFC after: 5 days
A nice thing about POSIX 2008 is that it finally standardizes a way to
obtain file access/modification/change times in sub-second precision,
namely using struct timespec, which we already have for a very long
time. Unfortunately POSIX uses different names.
This commit adds compatibility macros, so existing code should still
build properly. Also change all source code in the kernel to work
without any of the compatibility macros. This makes it all a less
ambiguous.
I am also renaming st_birthtime to st_birthtim, even though it was a
local extension anyway. It seems Cygwin also has a st_birthtim.
According to POSIX open() must return ENOTDIR when the path name does
not refer to a path name. Change vn_open() to respect this flag. This
also simplifies the Linuxolator a bit.
rounding (impl. dep. #55), the SPARC JPS1 responsible for SPARC64 and
UltraSPARC processors defines that in all cases tinyness is detected
before rounding, therefore rounding up to the smallest normalised
number should set the underflow flag.
- If an infinite result is rounded down, the result should have an
exponent 1 less than the value for infinity.
PR: 144900
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy
MFC after: 3 days
blog posting [1].
- Use word-sized test for unaligned pointer before working
the hard way.
Memory page boundary is always integral multiple of a word
alignment boundary. Therefore, if we can access memory
referenced by pointer p, then (p & ~word mask) must be also
accessible.
- Better utilization of multi-issue processor's ability of
concurrency.
The previous implementation utilized a formular that must be
executed sequentially. However, the ~, & and - operations can
actually be caculated at the same time when the operand were
different and unrelated.
The original Hacker's Delight formular also offered consistent
performance regardless whether the input would contain
characters with their highest-bit set, as it catches real
nul characters only.
These two optimizations has shown further improvements over the
previous implementation on microbenchmarks on i386 and amd64 CPU
including Pentium 4, Core Duo 2 and i7.
[1] http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/2010/03/08#strlen_1
MFC after: 1 month
by *sprintf(), etc.
- Explicitly initialize _fl_mutex to PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER for all FILE
objects. This is currently a nop on FreeBSD, but is import for other
platforms (or in the future) where PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER is not simply
zero.
PR: threads/141198
Reported by: Jeremy Huddleston @ Apple
MFC after: 2 weeks
