1. 30 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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      support linux kernel apis (new archs) with old syscalls removed · dd5f50da
      Rich Felker 提交于
      such archs are expected to omit definitions of the SYS_* macros for
      syscalls their kernels lack from arch/$ARCH/bits/syscall.h. the
      preprocessor is then able to select the an appropriate implementation
      for affected functions. two basic strategies are used on a
      case-by-case basis:
      
      where the old syscalls correspond to deprecated library-level
      functions, the deprecated functions have been converted to wrappers
      for the modern function, and the modern function has fallback code
      (omitted at the preprocessor level on new archs) to make use of the
      old syscalls if the new syscall fails with ENOSYS. this also improves
      functionality on older kernels and eliminates the incentive to program
      with deprecated library-level functions for the sake of compatibility
      with older kernels.
      
      in other situations where the old syscalls correspond to library-level
      functions which are not deprecated but merely lack some new features,
      such as the *at functions, the old syscalls are still used on archs
      which support them. this may change at some point in the future if or
      when fallback code is added to the new functions to make them usable
      (possibly with reduced functionality) on old kernels.
      dd5f50da
  2. 20 12月, 2013 1 次提交
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      fix failure of fchmod, fstat, fchdir, and fchown to produce EBADF · 65ea604c
      Rich Felker 提交于
      the workaround/fallback code for supporting O_PATH file descriptors
      when the kernel lacks support for performing these operations on them
      caused EBADF to get replaced by ENOENT (due to missing entry in
      /proc/self/fd). this is unlikely to affect real-world code (calls that
      might yield EBADF are generally unsafe, especially in library code)
      but it was breaking some test cases.
      
      the fix I've applied is something of a tradeoff: it adds one syscall
      to these operations on kernels where the workaround is needed. the
      alternative would be to catch ENOENT from the /proc lookup and
      translate it to EBADF, but I want to avoid doing that in the interest
      of not touching/depending on /proc at all in these functions as long
      as the kernel correctly supports the operations. this is following the
      general principle of isolating hacks to code paths that are taken on
      broken systems, and keeping the code for correct systems completely
      hack-free.
      65ea604c
  3. 03 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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      make fchdir, fchmod, fchown, and fstat support O_PATH file descriptors · 9ca1f62b
      Rich Felker 提交于
      on newer kernels, fchdir and fstat work anyway. this same fix should
      be applied to any other syscalls that are similarly affected.
      
      with this change, the current definitions of O_SEARCH and O_EXEC as
      O_PATH are mostly conforming to POSIX requirements. the main remaining
      issue is that O_NOFOLLOW has different semantics.
      9ca1f62b
  4. 20 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  5. 12 2月, 2011 1 次提交