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Most of the userland changes are in libc. For both the alpha
and the i386 setjmp has been changed to accomodate for the
new sigset_t. Internally, libc is mostly rewritten to use the
new syscalls. The exception is in compat-43/sigcompat.c
The POSIX thread library has also been rewritten to use the
new sigset_t. Except, that it currently only handles NSIG
signals instead of the maximum _SIG_MAXSIG. This should not
be a problem because current applications don't use any
signals higher than NSIG.
There are version bumps for the following libraries:
libdialog
libreadline
libc
libc_r
libedit
libftpio
libss
These libraries either a) have one of the modified structures
visible in the interface, or b) use sigset_t internally and
may cause breakage if new binaries are used against libraries
that don't have the sigset_t change. This not an immediate
issue, but will be as soon as applications start using the
new range to its fullest.
NOTE: libncurses already had an version bump and has not been
given one now.
NOTE: doscmd is a real casualty and has been disconnected for
the moment. Reconnection will eventually happen after
doscmd has been fixed. I'm aware that being the last one
to touch it, I'm automaticly promoted to being maintainer.
According to good taste this means that I will receive a
badge which either will be glued or mechanically stapled,
drilled or otherwise violently forced onto me :-)
NOTE: pcvt/vttest cannot be compiled with -traditional. The
change cause sys/types to be included along the way which
contains the const and volatile modifiers. I don't consider
this a solution, but more a workaround.
FTP error return code because
1) They return NULL, it means that ftpErrno can't be used because
it takes file pointer
2) They don't have FILE-type argument as f.e. ftpGet/ftpPut to use
it for ftpErrno instead.
For that functions I add yet one int* type argument to store
FTP error return code. It is impossible to add some global variable
for that reason, because user can have multiply FTP connections
opened at the same time.
So, interface changed, major number bumped.
Userland changes will follows.
Minor bugfixes, the code:
Forget to close file in few places, when failure occurse
Forget to NULL cached host name, multiply free is possible
Major version bumped (by me) since the ftpGet() public interface has
changed (an "int *" becomes and "off_t *")
Submitted by: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, PR#1640
