- wait.h as a compatibility alias for sys/wait.h
- various header improvements
- support for runtime-variable page size on archs that need it (mainly mips)
+
+
+
+0.9.15 release notes
+
+new features:
+- support for mixing IPv4 and v6 nameserver addresses in resolv.conf
+- RFC 3678 multicast structures/macros in netinet/in.h
+- putspent and fgetspent functions (shadow password API)
+- timef function (obsolete, removed in POSIX 2008)
+- fanotify syscalls (Linux-specific feature)
+- semtimedop syscall (Linux-specific sysvipc extension)
+- quotactl syscall and header (filesystem quotas support)
+- drem and finite functions (obsolete BSD functions)
+- getloadavg function (non-standard)
+- herror function (non-standard and obsolete)
+- libc.so now stores and prints its version information
+- expose constants for new Linux features including O_TMPFILE
+- implement FNM_LEADING_DIR option to fnmatch (GNU extension)
+- posix_close function (accepted for inclusion in next POSIX issue)
+
+bugs fixed:
+- buffer overflow in mbsrtowcs
+- clobbering of gr_name in getgrnam_r and getgrgid_r
+- execle ignoring the environment argument
+- setenv crash on malloc failure
+- out-of-bounds access in fnmatch with FNM_PATHNAME and certain patterns
+- failure of malloc to set errno when failing to extend heap
+- incorrect errno value from getcwd with zero size
+- spurious failure in faccessat with AT_EACCESS flag with suid/sgid programs
+- several fd leaks due to missing close-on-exec flag
+- misspellings/typos in macro names in several headers
+- incorrect failure return value in inet_pton
+- various numeric ip address parsing and validation fixes
+- namespace conformance issues in several headers
+- minor header issues
+- zombie processes left by faccessat with AT_EACCESS
+- timezone file parser failing/crashing on 64-bit archs
+- hang in localtime with near-overflowing time_t values on 64-bit archs
+- timezone path search was only trying first path
+- incorrect handling of excessive-length TZ environment strings
+- timezone file loading was wrongly enforcing O_NOFOLLOW/rejecting symlinks
+- iswspace was wrongly returning true for the null character
+- various bugs in wordexp
+- putgrent could write corrupt lines after write failures
+- dn_expand misinterpreted in-packet offsets greater than 255
+- spurious strftime/wcsftime failure on len+1==bufsize case
+- incorrect underflow flag in fma corner cases
+- log*(0) wrongly returned +inf in downward-rounding mode
+- failure of fchmod, fstat, fchdir, and fchown to produce EBADF
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- i386: failure of fesetround to set sse rounding mode
+- i386: floating point limit constants misinterpreted due to excess precision
+- powerpc: broken thread pointer access when compiled with clang
+- microblaze: dynamic linker entry point code possibly clobbering argv
+
+strict conformance issues:
+- NULL definition re-aligned with POSIX (requires (void *) cast)
+- alignment of math.h is* comparison functions with C11 annex F requirements
+
+
+
+1.0.0 release notes
+
+new features:
+- support for mips softfloat ABI variant
+- legacy setkey and encrypt API for DES
+- support for BSD version of struct tcphdr in addition to GNU version
+- added ipv6 and icmpv6 protocol lookups to getprotoent-family functions
+
+new experimental ports:
+- sh (SuperH)
+- x32 (ILP32 ABI for x86_64)
+
+compatibility:
+- improved c89 compiler support in math.h
+- eliminate some compiler warnings in public headers
+- added some missing things for LFS64 APIs
+- added fallback emulation of accept4 for older kernels
+
+bugs fixed:
+- buffer overflow in printf when printing smallest denormal exactly
+- rounding errors in printf in some just-over-halfway cases
+- posix_spawn did not accept null pid pointer (crashed)
+- ftello gave incorrect result for unflushed append-mode streams
+- mishandling of n=0 case in wcsxfrm (wild buffer overrun)
+- possible system breakage during libc upgrade due to install.sh bugs
+- nftw FTW_MOUNT flag prevented walking any directories at all
+- ptsname/ptsname_r returned negated error codes
+- getprotoent function returned junk after listing valid protocols
+- wrong error code from readdir when the directory has been deleted
+- various prototype/argument-type fixes, mostly to legacy functions
+- various header namespace violations
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) was broken on i386 and x86_64
+- strerror(EDQUOT) did not work on mips
+- recvmsg/sendmsg were broken on powerpc
+- sysv ipc was broken on powerpc and mips
+- statfs/statvfs were broken on mips
+- sigaltstack was broken on mips
+
+
+
+1.1.0 release notes
+
+new features:
+- relro memory protection in dynamic linker
+- malloc can now extend heap with mmap if brk fails
+- vdso clock_gettime/gettimeofday/time acceleration on x86_64
+- thread/library-safe versions of search.h functions (nonstandard)
+- getauxval function (nonstandard)
+- sysconf extensions to query physical memory size
+
+bugs fixed:
+- floating point printf output corruption from carry into uninitialized slot
+- possible runaway carry overflow in printf floating point
+- printf %g failure to strip trailing zeros in some cases
+- search past end of haystack in memmem
+- off-by-one error in confstr return value
+- crashes in some near-empty static programs that use stack protector
+- deadlock race in pthread_once
+- non-working clock_gettime fallback for old kernels
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- crash from missing syscall asm register clobbers on real microblaze kernel
+- crash in all nontrivial dynamic linker use on microblaze
+- incorrect rlimit constants on mips
+- broken, possibly dangerous, use of getrlimit syscall on x32 in sysconf
+
+
+
+1.1.1 release notes
+
+new features:
+- new options --preload and --library-path to dynamic linker
+- public execvpe function (nonstandard extension)
+- iconv support for cp437 and cp850
+
+bugs fixed:
+- false negatives with some periodic needles in strstr, wcsstr, and memmem
+- crash on invalid zoneinfo files
+- incorrect zero-padding of some outputs for strftime %s specifier
+- misreporting of errors in configure script when $CC does not work at all
+- treating not-yet-implemented strptime specifiers as errors
+
+compatibility:
+- configure now detects serious constant-folding bug in gcc 4.9.0
+- removed __yield symbol (unused) that clashed with some compilers
+- improvements to sysconf's handling of unsupported/invalid arguments
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- misdetection of superh ABI variant by configure on gcc 3.x
+- missing SO_RCVBUFFORCE and SO_SNDBUFFORCE in mips socket.h
+- build regression on armv6 and later with -mthumb
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