Even though not all race conditions can be fixed if the 'e' option is not
used, still fix some race conditions using pipe2():
* Prevent both ends of the pipe from leaking to a concurrent popen().
* Prevent the child process's end of the pipe from leaking to any concurrent
fork and exec.
This change also simplifies the code.
If 'e' is used, the kernel must support the recently added pipe2() system
call.
The use of pipe2() with O_CLOEXEC also fixes race conditions between
concurrent popen() calls from different threads, even if the close-on-exec
flag on the fd of the returned FILE is later cleared (because popen() closes
all file descriptors from earlier popen() calls in the child process).
Therefore, this approach should be used in all cases when pipe2() can be
assumed present.
The old version of popen() rejects "re" and "we" but treats "r+e" like "r+".
Last year I added SLIST_REMOVE_NEXT and STAILQ_REMOVE_NEXT, to remove
entries behind an element in the list, using O(1) time. I recently
discovered NetBSD also has a similar macro, called SLIST_REMOVE_AFTER.
In my opinion this approach is a lot better:
- It doesn't have the unused first argument of the list pointer. I added
this, mainly because OpenBSD also had it.
- The _AFTER suffix makes a lot more sense, because it is related to
SLIST_INSERT_AFTER. _NEXT is only used to iterate through the list.
The reason why I want to rename this now, is to make sure we don't
release a major version with the badly named macros.
I guess the original author of the popen() code didn't want to use our
<sys/queue.h> macro's, because the single linked list macro's didn't
offer O(1) deletion. Because I introduced SLIST_REMOVE_NEXT() some time
ago, we can now use the macro's here.
By converting the code to an SLIST, it is more consistent with other
parts of the C library and the operating system.
Reviewed by: csjp
Approved by: philip (mentor, implicit)
when the same pipe FILE is pclosed()'d in different threads, and to avoid
corrupting the linked list when adding or removing items. The symptoms of
the linked list getting corrupted were pclose() either not finding the pipe
on the list, or the list becoming circular and pclose() looping infinitely.
adding (weak definitions to) stubs for some of the pthread
functions. If the threads library is linked in, the real
pthread functions will pulled in.
Use the following convention for system calls wrapped by the
threads library:
__sys_foo - actual system call
_foo - weak definition to __sys_foo
foo - weak definition to __sys_foo
Change all libc uses of system calls wrapped by the threads
library from foo to _foo. In order to define the prototypes
for _foo(), we introduce namespace.h and un-namespace.h
(suggested by bde). All files that need to reference these
system calls, should include namespace.h before any standard
includes, then include un-namespace.h after the standard
includes and before any local includes. <db.h> is an exception
and shouldn't be included in between namespace.h and
un-namespace.h namespace.h will define foo to _foo, and
un-namespace.h will undefine foo.
Try to eliminate some of the recursive calls to MT-safe
functions in libc/stdio in preparation for adding a mutex
to FILE. We have recursive mutexes, but would like to avoid
using them if possible.
Remove uneeded includes of <errno.h> from a few files.
Add $FreeBSD$ to a few files in order to pass commitprep.
Approved by: -arch
just use _foo() <-- foo(). In the case of a libpthread that doesn't do
call conversion (such as linuxthreads and our upcoming libpthread), this
is adequate. In the case of libc_r, we still need three names, which are
now _thread_sys_foo() <-- _foo() <-- foo().
Convert all internal libc usage of: aio_suspend(), close(), fsync(), msync(),
nanosleep(), open(), fcntl(), read(), and write() to _foo() instead of foo().
Remove all internal libc usage of: creat(), pause(), sleep(), system(),
tcdrain(), wait(), and waitpid().
Make thread cancellation fully POSIX-compliant.
Suggested by: deischen
points. For library functions, the pattern is __sleep() <--
_libc_sleep() <-- sleep(). The arrows represent weak aliases. For
system calls, the pattern is _read() <-- _libc_read() <-- read().
vfork() can't be used. We could use alloca() in execl() so that
it can be called between vfork() and execve(), but a "portable"
popen() shouldn't depend on this. Calling execle() instead of
execl() should be fairly safe, since execle() is supposed to be
callable from signal handlers and signal handlers can't call
malloc(). However, execle() is broken.
