X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=musl;a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=a33476b413ca3aec2c237ef074cb402b8a4eece8;hp=09152683739194a57a0344dc96c21a75c8d2d475;hb=cb8dff2149c393c94c2abbef186c564829b97e93;hpb=78eb0879cd031be62a6905bcf5de0db4b7cf30cf diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 09152683..a33476b4 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ implemented POSIX timers. optimized and simplified many thread-related functions. -eliminated resource leak races in thread cancellation. +eliminated resource leak races in thread cancellation. (almost all +existing implementations, including glibc, have these leaks.) overhauled stdio implementation to take advantage of readv/writev for reduced syscall load, and improved stdio's handling of error status. @@ -98,3 +99,58 @@ greatly simplified internal system for making syscalls. strangthened tmpnam/tempnam/tmpfile filename generation and made the straight C functions not depend on POSIX symbols. + +fixed pthread cancellation ABI on i386 to match the LSB/glibc ABI + +better double-free handling in malloc + +various minor bug fixes + + + +0.7.6 - major bug fixes + +fixed rare but serious under-allocation bug in malloc. + +fixed signedness bug in strchr that prevented finding high bytes. + +fixed serious parsing bugs in strtold. + +fixed statvfs syscall (it was always failing with EINVAL). + +fixed race condition in set*id() functions with threads (possible +deadlock). further audit still needed though. + +fseek no longer sets the stream error flag on failed seeks (this was +wrong and broke some programs, notably GNU m4). + +nl_langinfo is no longer a dummy function. (the functionality was +previously implemented but accidentally left unused). + +various small fixes have been made to the implementations and +prototypes for nonstandard and obsolete functions + + + +0.7.7 - more bug fixes and program-compatibility improvements + +fixed floating point formatting and rounding bugs in printf. + +fixed broken %N$ positional argument specifiers in printf. + +fixed misaligned read/overread bug in strchr which could lead to +crashes scanning tiny strings at the end of a page when the next page +is not readable, or on archs (not yet supported) that forbid +misaligned reads. + +fixed breakage of statvfs on x86_64 + +fixed crash in getmntent_r + +fixed bug in POSIX timers created with NULL sigevent argument + +improved semaphore performance, and sem_wait is now interruptable by +signals, as required by POSIX. + +added many compatibility and system-level interfaces, increasing the +proportion of busybox that works with musl.