avoid fd leak if opendir is cancelled when calloc has failed

[musl] / WHATSNEW

diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 65a61c4..f1c66df 100644 (file)
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ proportion of busybox that works with musl.
 
 
 
 
 
 

-0.7.8 (pending release) - more bug fixes
+0.7.8 - more bug fixes and compatibility improvements

 
 fixed problems with ipv6 dns and address printing code that made ipv6
 support practically unusable, and some other getaddrinfo bugs.
 
 fixed problems with ipv6 dns and address printing code that made ipv6
 support practically unusable, and some other getaddrinfo bugs.


@@ -172,3 +172,31 @@ after getting a blank line, due to a bug in the linux readv syscall.
 
 various improvements to the "rsyscall" system used to implement
 threaded setuid, setgid, etc.
 
 various improvements to the "rsyscall" system used to implement
 threaded setuid, setgid, etc.

+
+exiting/cancelling the a timer handler thread no longer kills the
+timer.
+
+fixed incorrect trailing zeros on some %g conversions in printf.
+
+fixed buggy byte-swapping functions and moved them to inlines in
+byteswap.h.
+
+many small improvements to header/application compatibility, support
+for nonstandard macros, etc.
+
+
+
+0.7.9 (pending release) - more bug fixes, compatibility, optimization, cleanup
+
+fixed fcntl locking on x86_64.
+
+fixed syslog implementation to work correctly with busybox syslogd and
+presumably all other syslogd implementations using /dev/log.
+
+fixed major problems, including wrong public struct definitions, in
+sysvipc interfaces.
+
+improved timers with thread delivery to avoid some issues with reusing
+the same thread for all expirations.
+
+optimized various pthread internals.