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1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
2 | Copyright (C) 1992-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
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3 | See the end for copying conditions. |
4 | ||
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5 | Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> |
6 | using `glibc' in the "product" field. | |
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7 | \f |
8 | Version 2.17 | |
9 | ||
10 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
11 | ||
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12 | 1349, 3439, 3479, 5044, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6778, 6808, 9685, 9914, 10014, |
13 | 10038, 10631, 11438, 11607, 12140, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13629, 13679, | |
14 | 13696, 13717, 13741, 13939, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, | |
15 | 14152, 14154, 14157, 14166, 14173, 14195, 14237, 14251, 14252, 14283, | |
16 | 14298, 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14376, | |
17 | 14417, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518, 14519, 14530, | |
18 | 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568, 14576, 14579, | |
19 | 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645, 14648, 14652, | |
20 | 14660, 14661, 14669, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, | |
5b5b04d6 | 21 | 14785, 14796. |
7a845b2c | 22 | |
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23 | * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x. |
24 | Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and | |
25 | zEnterprise z196. | |
26 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
27 | ||
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28 | * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment, |
29 | returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces | |
30 | the internal function __secure_getenv. | |
31 | ||
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32 | * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker. |
33 | Implemented by Gary Benson. | |
34 | ||
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35 | * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem. |
36 | Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov. | |
37 | ||
7aab07e4 | 38 | * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library |
6dad2c06 | 39 | can be used with is 2.6.16. |
7aab07e4 | 40 | |
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41 | * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for |
42 | powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt. | |
43 | ||
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44 | * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it |
45 | never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd). | |
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46 | New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself; |
47 | this is the default if --disable-nscd is used. | |
3cc3ef96 | 48 | |
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49 | * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for |
50 | the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This | |
51 | allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. | |
52 | ||
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53 | * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the |
54 | specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will | |
55 | consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is | |
56 | enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm | |
57 | when the mode is enabled. | |
58 | ||
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59 | * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available |
60 | directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with | |
61 | -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a | |
62 | single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and | |
63 | is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads | |
64 | library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with | |
65 | multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library. | |
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66 | \f |
67 | Version 2.16 | |
68 | ||
69 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
70 | ||
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71 | 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 887, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, |
72 | 2551, 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, | |
73 | 3335, 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, | |
74 | 4822, 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, | |
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75 | 6884, 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, |
76 | 10140, 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 11174, | |
77 | 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047, 12097, | |
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78 | 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495, 13058, |
79 | 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531, 13532, | |
80 | 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563, 13566, | |
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81 | 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656, 13658, |
82 | 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738, 13739, | |
83 | 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792, 13806, | |
84 | 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854, 13871, | |
85 | 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892, 13895, | |
86 | 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917, 13918, | |
87 | 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928, 13938, | |
88 | 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970, 13973, | |
89 | 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036, 14040, | |
90 | 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064, 14075, | |
91 | 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123, 14134, | |
92 | 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273, 14277, | |
6e6249d0 | 93 | 14278. |
380d7e87 | 94 | |
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95 | * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by |
96 | configuring glibc with: | |
97 | BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32' | |
98 | Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info. | |
99 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
100 | ||
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101 | * ISO C11 support: |
102 | ||
103 | + define static_assert | |
104 | ||
105 | + do not declare gets | |
106 | ||
107 | + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11 | |
108 | ||
109 | + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter | |
110 | to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement | |
111 | in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the | |
112 | implementation. | |
8d44e150 | 113 | |
74033a25 | 114 | + timespec_get added |
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115 | |
116 | + uchar.h support added | |
d75a0a62 | 117 | |
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118 | + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added |
119 | ||
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120 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
121 | ||
9dc4e1fb | 122 | * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports. |
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123 | |
124 | * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format | |
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125 | |
126 | * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added. | |
127 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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128 | |
129 | * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions. | |
130 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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131 | |
132 | * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC | |
133 | headers and functions available at compile time as they were before | |
134 | version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future | |
135 | after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of | |
136 | existing applications. | |
ffb7875d | 137 | |
21708942 | 138 | * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed. |
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139 | Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version |
140 | before 2.6. | |
83678f76 | 141 | |
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142 | * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to |
143 | the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also | |
144 | defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key. | |
145 | ||
83678f76 | 146 | * New locales: mag_IN |
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147 | |
148 | * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes | |
149 | into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations. | |
150 | So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are | |
151 | provided only for i*86 and x86_64. | |
152 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho. | |
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153 | |
154 | * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva. | |
155 | ||
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156 | * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella |
157 | and Will Schmidt. | |
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158 | |
159 | * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller. | |
160 | ||
161 | * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds | |
162 | without a previously built glibc. | |
163 | ||
164 | * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by | |
165 | Chris Metcalf from Tilera. | |
166 | ||
167 | * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is | |
168 | now supported for ARM processors. | |
169 | ||
170 | * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 | |
171 | as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the | |
172 | /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI. | |
173 | ||
174 | * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports. | |
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175 | |
176 | * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level | |
177 | platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a | |
178 | function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio | |
179 | Magno Quites Machado Filho. | |
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180 | |
181 | * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with | |
182 | what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used | |
183 | for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds. | |
184 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
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185 | |
186 | * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was | |
187 | conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math | |
188 | library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results. | |
189 | Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his | |
190 | patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues. | |
191 | ||
192 | * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts | |
193 | will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from | |
194 | their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at | |
195 | <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>. | |
ee1a7fab | 196 | \f |
e80fab37 | 197 | Version 2.15 |
11988f8f | 198 | |
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199 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
200 | ||
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201 | 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847, |
202 | 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962, | |
203 | 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092, | |
204 | 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179, | |
205 | 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335, | |
206 | 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472, | |
207 | 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540 | |
c0244a9d | 208 | |
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209 | * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process |
210 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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211 | |
212 | * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db | |
213 | and support for initgroups lookups. | |
214 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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215 | |
216 | * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32. | |
217 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
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218 | |
219 | * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64. | |
220 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
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222 | * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen |
223 | on x86-32 and x86-64. | |
99710781 | 224 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
c55fbd1e | 225 | |
d42964a0 | 226 | * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32. |
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227 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
228 | ||
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229 | * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy |
230 | for x86-64 and x86-32. | |
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231 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
232 | ||
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233 | * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64 |
234 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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235 | |
236 | * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added. | |
237 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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238 | |
239 | * nscd now also caches the netgroup database. | |
240 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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241 | |
242 | * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option. | |
243 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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244 | |
245 | * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations | |
246 | to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
247 | ||
248 | * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64. | |
249 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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250 | |
251 | * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev | |
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252 | |
253 | * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32. | |
254 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
a1267ba1 | 255 | |
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256 | * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC. |
257 | Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella. | |
2655fd5c | 258 | |
6b64057b | 259 | * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK |
e80fab37 | 260 | \f |
dded88cd | 261 | Version 2.14 |
9f94d2ea | 262 | |
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263 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
264 | ||
553149f6 | 265 | 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257, |
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266 | 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724, |
267 | 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11869, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945, | |
7ae22829 | 268 | 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350, |
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269 | 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489, |
270 | 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583, | |
271 | 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655, | |
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272 | 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723, |
273 | 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792, | |
f16846a5 | 274 | 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841 |
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276 | * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working |
277 | but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore. | |
278 | Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC. | |
6b1e7d19 | 279 | The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits. |
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280 | |
281 | Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link | |
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282 | programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the |
283 | removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers. | |
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284 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
285 | ||
c6489db3 | 286 | * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at, |
f1f929d7 | 287 | syncfs, setns, sendmmsg |
83fe108b | 288 | |
72d1dddb | 289 | * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH, |
a7b80ed5 | 290 | yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU |
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291 | |
292 | * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774 | |
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293 | |
294 | * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs | |
295 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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296 | |
297 | * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed | |
298 | from the default implementation in the next version. The design never | |
299 | worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do | |
300 | not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally. | |
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302 | Version 2.13 |
303 | ||
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304 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
305 | ||
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306 | 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611, |
307 | 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979, | |
308 | 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113, | |
309 | 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348, | |
310 | 12378, 12394, 12397 | |
ac2b484c | 311 | |
10b3bedc | 312 | * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark |
c08fb0d7 | 313 | |
ac2b484c | 314 | * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp |
8d50becc | 315 | |
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316 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2), |
317 | strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2) | |
8d50becc | 318 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
4828935d | 319 | \f |
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320 | Version 2.12 |
321 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
322 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
323 | ||
324 | 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915, 10918, | |
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325 | 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001, 11007, |
326 | 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070, 11093, | |
327 | 11115, 11120, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184, | |
328 | 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194, | |
329 | 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279, | |
330 | 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397, | |
5ae958d7 | 331 | 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571 |
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332 | |
333 | * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np | |
d36b9613 | 334 | |
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335 | * New Linux interface: recvmmsg |
336 | ||
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337 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller. |
338 | ||
339 | * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the | |
340 | EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header. | |
341 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
342 | ||
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343 | * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table |
344 | will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies. | |
345 | Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be | |
346 | missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris. | |
347 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
348 | ||
d36b9613 | 349 | * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU |
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350 | \f |
351 | Version 2.11 | |
352 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
353 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
354 | ||
355 | 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183, | |
356 | 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229, | |
357 | 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416, | |
358 | 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564, | |
359 | 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784, | |
360 | 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847 | |
361 | ||
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362 | * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps, |
363 | mkostemps64 | |
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364 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
365 | ||
24ab9c76 | 366 | * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack |
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367 | frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
368 | ||
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369 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables. |
370 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
371 | ||
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372 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra. |
373 | ||
0122f28e | 374 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp, |
9d36a6c4 | 375 | strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), |
7f3146e7 | 376 | strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2). |
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377 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. |
378 | ||
9d36a6c4 | 379 | strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3). |
0122f28e UD |
380 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
381 | ||
9d36a6c4 UD |
382 | * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk, |
383 | strstr, strcasestr. | |
384 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
385 | ||
386 | * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64. | |
387 | Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper. | |
388 | ||
0122f28e UD |
389 | * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so. |
390 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
391 | ||
392 | * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added. | |
393 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
394 | ||
395 | * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more | |
396 | broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not | |
397 | handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending | |
398 | the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf | |
399 | can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the | |
400 | necessity is every process again. | |
401 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
402 | ||
9d36a6c4 UD |
403 | * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup. |
404 | Implemented by Adam Tkac. | |
405 | ||
406 | * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x. | |
407 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
408 | ||
4bc1b896 UD |
409 | * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel |
410 | support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64. | |
411 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
412 | ||
9dd5b8a1 | 413 | * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM |
f1092afe UD |
414 | \f |
415 | Version 2.10 | |
416 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
417 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
418 | ||
419 | 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098, | |
420 | 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736, | |
421 | 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881, | |
422 | 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052, | |
423 | 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128 | |
424 | ||
bb066545 | 425 | * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info |
e109c612 UD |
426 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
427 | ||
425ce2ed | 428 | * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64. |
e109c612 | 429 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
6f5c3117 | 430 | |
1fdd89a7 | 431 | * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This |
735be400 | 432 | could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code. |
1fdd89a7 | 433 | |
6cbe890a UD |
434 | * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are |
435 | now in POSIX. | |
77db439e | 436 | |
1f04d005 | 437 | * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo |
6cbe890a | 438 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1f04d005 | 439 | |
610e67ed UD |
440 | * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit |
441 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
442 | ||
878b72c5 UD |
443 | * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime |
444 | using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
445 | ||
e109c612 UD |
446 | * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in |
447 | NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
448 | ||
449 | * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient | |
450 | but higher performing in multi-threaded programs. | |
451 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
452 | ||
735be400 | 453 | * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN |
878b72c5 | 454 | |
84aa52d7 | 455 | * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64. |
9d26efa9 UD |
456 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
457 | ||
458 | * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types | |
459 | and extend existing format specifiers. | |
a152f366 UD |
460 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
461 | ||
c7e74e59 UD |
462 | * Handling for group shadow files has been added. |
463 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
464 | ||
57be3fd7 UD |
465 | * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS |
466 | servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS | |
467 | server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout | |
468 | in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put | |
469 | 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf. | |
470 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
28919a77 | 471 | \f |
b29899ae UD |
472 | Version 2.9 |
473 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
474 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
475 | ||
476 | 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461, | |
477 | 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713, | |
478 | 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843, | |
479 | 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966, | |
480 | 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029 | |
481 | ||
b29899ae | 482 | * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked |
f05ac8f5 UD |
483 | up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
484 | ||
485 | * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64. | |
486 | Implemented by Alexandre Oliva. | |
18a74157 UD |
487 | |
488 | * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite. | |
489 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0caca71a UD |
490 | |
491 | * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh, | |
492 | htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh. | |
493 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
494 | ||
495 | * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n). | |
496 | Implemented by Eric Blake. | |
e038616f | 497 | |
8ec2550e | 498 | * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2 |
e038616f UD |
499 | |
500 | * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the | |
ebcc1f4d | 501 | close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
e038616f | 502 | |
7b3ba2c4 UD |
503 | * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't |
504 | implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really | |
505 | use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis. | |
506 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
507 | ||
e038616f UD |
508 | * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec |
509 | flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
48b22986 | 510 | |
bf837fa3 UD |
511 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu, |
512 | Sinhala) | |
48b22986 | 513 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. |
0a26fc4d UD |
514 | |
515 | * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW. | |
b29899ae | 516 | \f |
28919a77 UD |
517 | Version 2.8 |
518 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
519 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
520 | ||
521 | 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220, | |
522 | 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382, | |
523 | 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454, | |
524 | 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600, | |
525 | 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768, | |
526 | 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979, | |
527 | 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042 | |
528 | ||
e038616f | 529 | * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA. |
b4354cf4 | 530 | |
77751669 | 531 | * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8. |
aece054b UD |
532 | |
533 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati). | |
534 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. | |
535 | ||
536 | * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID | |
537 | ||
538 | * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries | |
539 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
540 | ||
541 | * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often. | |
542 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
543 | ||
544 | * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf, | |
545 | vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf. | |
546 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
547 | ||
548 | * Faster memset for x86-64. | |
549 | Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu. | |
550 | ||
551 | * Faster memcpy on x86. | |
552 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
553 | ||
554 | * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX). | |
555 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
3b32d8a2 UD |
556 | |
557 | * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants. | |
d990b282 | 558 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. |
46c38bd7 | 559 | \f |
e1db0493 UD |
560 | Version 2.7 |
561 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
562 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
563 | ||
564 | 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566, | |
565 | 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773, | |
566 | 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925, | |
567 | 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063, | |
568 | 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186 | |
569 | ||
e1db0493 UD |
570 | * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open. |
571 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
572 | ||
573 | * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
574 | ||
575 | * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance | |
576 | by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested. | |
577 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
578 | ||
579 | * PPC optimizations to math and string functions. | |
580 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. | |
581 | ||
28919a77 | 582 | * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional |
e1db0493 UD |
583 | options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
584 | ||
585 | * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
586 | ||
0304f168 UD |
587 | * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write. |
588 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
589 | ||
e1db0493 UD |
590 | * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation. |
591 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
592 | ||
593 | * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc. | |
594 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
595 | ||
596 | * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
597 | ||
598 | * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption. | |
599 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0304f168 UD |
600 | |
601 | * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG, | |
602 | ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN, | |
603 | yo_NG. | |
604 | ||
605 | + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU. | |
606 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
e1db0493 | 607 | \f |
11bf311e | 608 | Version 2.6 |
46c38bd7 | 609 | |
d36b9613 UD |
610 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
611 | ||
612 | 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348, | |
613 | 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493, | |
614 | 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842, | |
615 | 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991, | |
616 | 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114, | |
617 | 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392, | |
618 | 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586, | |
619 | 4702, 4858 | |
620 | ||
bce20b9a | 621 | * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu. |
46c38bd7 | 622 | |
4a44ce79 UD |
623 | * New generic interfaces: strerror_l. |
624 | ||
b21fa963 | 625 | * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
3af48b5b UD |
626 | \f |
627 | Version 2.5 | |
628 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
629 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
630 | ||
631 | 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784, | |
632 | 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182, | |
633 | 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472, | |
634 | 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526, | |
635 | 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693, | |
636 | 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841, | |
637 | 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998, | |
638 | 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189, | |
639 | 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273 | |
640 | ||
3af48b5b | 641 | * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also |
457b559e UD |
642 | handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled. |
643 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
3af48b5b | 644 | |
3142b1ac UD |
645 | * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. |
646 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
647 | ||
871b9158 | 648 | * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice. |
1e528c6e UD |
649 | |
650 | * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. | |
3af48b5b | 651 | |
3142b1ac UD |
652 | * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate |
653 | option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results | |
654 | of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some | |
457b559e | 655 | site might have problems with the default behavior. |
3142b1ac UD |
656 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
657 | ||
07bfff20 | 658 | * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the |
3142b1ac UD |
659 | SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide |
660 | to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. | |
661 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
662 | ||
07bfff20 UD |
663 | * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by |
664 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
665 | ||
871b9158 UD |
666 | * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper. |
667 | ||
d5ba53f9 UD |
668 | * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and |
669 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
670 | ||
ad2a3c07 UD |
671 | * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek. |
672 | ||
88cc61e8 UD |
673 | * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN, |
674 | or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME. | |
2e92188d | 675 | \f |
137e6462 UD |
676 | Version 2.4 |
677 | ||
678 | * More overflow detection functions. | |
679 | ||
680 | * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153, | |
681 | IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba. | |
1aa4e40a | 682 | |
4973cbe5 UD |
683 | More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097, |
684 | IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144, | |
685 | IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517, | |
686 | IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712, | |
687 | IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed | |
688 | by Masahide Washizawa. | |
689 | ||
1aa4e40a UD |
690 | * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using |
691 | LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
da0eaa47 RM |
692 | |
693 | * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no | |
694 | longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels. | |
695 | For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we | |
696 | recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. | |
4973cbe5 | 697 | |
35129bc0 RM |
698 | * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream, |
699 | but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer. | |
700 | ||
701 | * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect. | |
702 | ||
703 | * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat, | |
704 | futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, | |
705 | renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. | |
706 | ||
707 | * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare, | |
708 | inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch. | |
709 | ||
710 | * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess, | |
711 | for compatibility with some other systems. | |
712 | ||
713 | * Timezone data updated to 2006b version. | |
137e6462 | 714 | \f |
e6a9beca RM |
715 | Version 2.3.6 |
716 | ||
717 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
718 | ||
719 | 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961, | |
720 | 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, | |
721 | 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, | |
722 | 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, | |
723 | 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252, | |
724 | 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534 | |
725 | ||
726 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
727 | ||
728 | * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library. | |
729 | ||
730 | * Timezone data updated to 2005m version. | |
731 | \f | |
da232bf9 RM |
732 | Version 2.3.5 |
733 | ||
734 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
735 | ||
736 | 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719, | |
737 | 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, | |
738 | 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776, | |
739 | 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825 | |
740 | ||
741 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
742 | \f | |
a55bda85 UD |
743 | Version 2.3.4 |
744 | ||
745 | * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far. | |
746 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
8a1f658b UD |
747 | |
748 | * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded. | |
749 | For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes. | |
750 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
751 | ||
752 | * nscd can now perform SELinux checks. | |
753 | Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>. | |
754 | ||
0325dd20 | 755 | * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed |
8a1f658b UD |
756 | efficiently. |
757 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
758 | ||
759 | * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when | |
760 | compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception | |
761 | handling data. | |
762 | ||
763 | * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when | |
764 | it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate | |
0325dd20 | 765 | the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
8a1f658b UD |
766 | |
767 | * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int | |
0325dd20 UD |
768 | lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
769 | ||
770 | * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate | |
771 | namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course, | |
772 | like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically | |
773 | linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
774 | ||
775 | * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions | |
776 | were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by | |
777 | Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible. | |
720817e7 RM |
778 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. |
779 | ||
780 | * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that | |
781 | have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from | |
782 | the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers. | |
783 | These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module | |
784 | that is usable as an add-on when building the library. | |
a55bda85 | 785 | \f |
3a601d31 RM |
786 | Version 2.3.3 |
787 | ||
45e4762c RM |
788 | * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to |
789 | interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface. | |
790 | ||
3a601d31 RM |
791 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64; |
792 | implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath. | |
925c3c5c | 793 | |
69be6aaf | 794 | * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information. |
925c3c5c UD |
795 | Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk. |
796 | ||
797 | * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF. | |
798 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
97fd3a30 UD |
799 | |
800 | * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly | |
801 | by Roland McGrath. | |
802 | ||
c5af724c | 803 | * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek |
97fd3a30 UD |
804 | and Ulrich Drepper. |
805 | ||
806 | * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to | |
807 | RFC 3484. | |
3a601d31 | 808 | \f |
747bf98e RM |
809 | Version 2.3.2 |
810 | ||
f87277f2 RM |
811 | * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data |
812 | were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS. | |
813 | Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t' | |
814 | object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale. | |
815 | The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h> | |
816 | create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function | |
817 | `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so | |
818 | parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added | |
819 | in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath. | |
820 | ||
747bf98e RM |
821 | * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which |
822 | have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h> | |
823 | and are now also available on the Hurd. | |
824 | ||
825 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64. | |
d62507dd RM |
826 | |
827 | * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names. | |
828 | This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead. | |
52a16e58 | 829 | |
f87277f2 RM |
830 | * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for |
831 | PowerPC machines with no FPU. | |
832 | ||
52a16e58 | 833 | * fexecve is implemented on Linux. |
f9ad060c | 834 | |
f87277f2 RM |
835 | * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to |
836 | specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible. | |
9ef0a840 UD |
837 | |
838 | * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented | |
839 | in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This | |
840 | change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling | |
841 | of weak definition in ld.so. | |
842 | ||
843 | * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived | |
844 | at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately. | |
845 | ||
846 | * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The | |
847 | AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled. | |
747bf98e | 848 | \f |
03a2c647 | 849 | Version 2.3 |
37fb1084 | 850 | |
03a2c647 UD |
851 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164 |
852 | charsets. | |
853 | ||
854 | * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding | |
855 | options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale". | |
47e8b443 | 856 | |
bb0ec5bd | 857 | * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in |
47e8b443 | 858 | the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used. |
c17f665b UD |
859 | |
860 | * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional | |
861 | tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek. | |
8e57fc70 | 862 | |
bb0ec5bd | 863 | * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating |
91e6367e UD |
864 | copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of |
865 | the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
207b66ce UD |
866 | |
867 | * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based | |
868 | on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c. | |
3b0bdc72 | 869 | |
bb0ec5bd | 870 | * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant |
3b0bdc72 | 871 | implementation of regex. |
02779eaa UD |
872 | |
873 | * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support | |
874 | Unicode 3.2. | |
be45f421 | 875 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
876 | * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are |
877 | not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper. | |
be45f421 | 878 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
879 | * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF |
880 | thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms. | |
881 | Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima. | |
be45f421 UD |
882 | |
883 | * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213, | |
f87277f2 | 884 | EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII. |
a753ffb2 RM |
885 | |
886 | * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs': | |
887 | BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses. | |
888 | Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath. | |
6a9340b5 UD |
889 | |
890 | * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale | |
891 | archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
dd4f2115 UD |
892 | |
893 | * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions | |
894 | inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath, | |
895 | and Ulrich Drepper. | |
c843e065 RM |
896 | |
897 | * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux. | |
898 | \f | |
45061a15 RM |
899 | Version 2.2.6 |
900 | ||
901 | * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the | |
902 | old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3). | |
903 | ||
904 | * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file | |
905 | with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name. | |
03a2c647 | 906 | \f |
a8ae31c2 UD |
907 | Version 2.2.5 |
908 | ||
76321a25 AJ |
909 | * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the |
910 | 128-bit long double format. | |
a8ae31c2 | 911 | |
557a9213 UD |
912 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160, |
913 | IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets. | |
a8ae31c2 | 914 | |
ad2e4f18 | 915 | * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux. |
a8ae31c2 | 916 | |
7d0c5823 RM |
917 | * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd. |
918 | ||
a8ae31c2 UD |
919 | * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams |
920 | as well. | |
921 | ||
45061a15 RM |
922 | * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils |
923 | versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations. | |
8e57fc70 UD |
924 | |
925 | * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu. | |
7d0c5823 | 926 | \f |
33996419 AJ |
927 | Version 2.2.4 |
928 | ||
2995f70e | 929 | * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh, |
aff17a50 | 930 | asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format. |
8fee1bb0 UD |
931 | |
932 | * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to | |
933 | support Unicode 3.1. | |
86dbe05e UD |
934 | |
935 | * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels. | |
936 | Patch by Isamu Hasegawa. | |
045fcd26 | 937 | |
69d5f925 | 938 | * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks. |
045fcd26 | 939 | |
69d5f925 | 940 | * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through |
045fcd26 UD |
941 | iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file. |
942 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
943 | ||
944 | * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty | |
945 | severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger. | |
946 | ||
947 | * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio | |
948 | extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath. | |
129d706d UD |
949 | |
950 | * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries. | |
33996419 | 951 | \f |
2ace5721 UD |
952 | Version 2.2.3 |
953 | ||
1746f2b0 | 954 | * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and |
2ace5721 UD |
955 | accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions |
956 | in float, double, and long double format. | |
957 | ||
f128331c | 958 | * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc, |
b8750342 UD |
959 | and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the |
960 | 128-bit long double format. | |
07f951e4 | 961 | |
e4d82761 UD |
962 | * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added. |
963 | The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv | |
964 | <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis | |
965 | <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>. | |
966 | ||
2ace5721 UD |
967 | * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed |
968 | after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments. | |
969 | No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
b8a8413c UD |
970 | |
971 | * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky | |
972 | <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>. | |
a66f0958 UD |
973 | |
974 | * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
975 | of functions for Linux/IA-64. | |
481b550f UD |
976 | |
977 | * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service | |
978 | of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum | |
979 | <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f128331c UD |
980 | |
981 | * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext | |
982 | family of functions for Linux/S390. | |
232fdf8c UD |
983 | |
984 | * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
985 | of functions for Linux/x86. | |
eacde9d0 UD |
986 | |
987 | * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications. | |
2ace5721 | 988 | \f |
306eeae5 UD |
989 | Version 2.2.2 |
990 | ||
464d97ec | 991 | * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir |
306eeae5 UD |
992 | we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The |
993 | result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in | |
994 | the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need | |
995 | corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in | |
996 | previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many | |
997 | other headers. | |
464d97ec UD |
998 | |
999 | * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly. | |
1000 | Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>. | |
1001 | ||
1002 | * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles | |
1003 | charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be | |
1004 | provided and the conversion happens based on this data. | |
1005 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1006 | ||
1007 | * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed | |
1008 | locales. While | |
1009 | ||
1010 | locale -a | |
1011 | ||
1012 | only lists the names of the supported locales | |
1013 | ||
1014 | locale -a --verbose | |
1015 | ||
1016 | provides details such as country, language, and codeset name. | |
1017 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
306eeae5 | 1018 | \f |
d2defdc4 UD |
1019 | Version 2.2.1 |
1020 | ||
1021 | * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset | |
1022 | selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful | |
1023 | character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way | |
1024 | to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first | |
1025 | message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like | |
1026 | ||
1027 | $ codeset=ISO-8859-2 | |
1028 | ||
1029 | to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case). | |
1030 | ||
1031 | Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper. | |
aea6353a UD |
1032 | |
1033 | * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset), | |
1034 | IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset). | |
1035 | Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>. | |
234669e2 UD |
1036 | |
1037 | * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson | |
1038 | <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>. | |
1039 | ||
1040 | * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is | |
1041 | changed from the default "C" locale. | |
1042 | ||
1043 | * The usual bug fixes. | |
d2defdc4 | 1044 | \f |
2e92188d UD |
1045 | Version 2.2 |
1046 | ||
08a2e4a0 GM |
1047 | * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's |
1048 | new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC | |
1049 | is in progress. | |
1050 | ||
2e92188d UD |
1051 | * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd. |
1052 | ||
793bd4d9 | 1053 | * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed. |
2e92188d | 1054 | |
47b853e8 UD |
1055 | Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it |
1056 | obviously requires a database library being available. | |
1057 | ||
0013b2b1 UD |
1058 | * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1059 | ||
abbffdf9 | 1060 | * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper. |
01c771d0 | 1061 | |
6e8afc1c UD |
1062 | * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the |
1063 | behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger. | |
1064 | ||
591e1ffb UD |
1065 | * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. |
1066 | ||
d3436b3c UD |
1067 | * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports |
1068 | threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, | |
1069 | and Mark Kettenis. | |
2588068b UD |
1070 | |
1071 | This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since | |
1072 | now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it | |
1073 | in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. | |
66ac0abe | 1074 | |
a00c3ca9 | 1075 | The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport |
d3436b3c UD |
1076 | protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. |
1077 | ||
1c5d4617 UD |
1078 | * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the |
1079 | header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library | |
1080 | (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). | |
1081 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
1082 | * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character |
1083 | sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll, | |
1084 | strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work. | |
1085 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1086 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
1087 | Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data |
1088 | structures for the wide character tables. | |
1089 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
1090 | * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1091 | ||
69173865 UD |
1092 | * The utmp daemon has been removed. |
1093 | ||
1094 | * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger. | |
1095 | ||
37fb8add UD |
1096 | * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima |
1097 | and Yutaka Niibe. | |
1098 | ||
594cee6c UD |
1099 | * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper. |
1100 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
1101 | * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku. |
1102 | ||
594cee6c UD |
1103 | * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1104 | ||
1105 | * POSIX spinlocks are now available. | |
1106 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
1107 | * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented. |
1108 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
1109 | * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out |
1110 | compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only | |
1111 | implemented for Linux. | |
1112 | ||
3107c0c5 UD |
1113 | * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new |
1114 | field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be | |
1115 | recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc | |
1116 | versions. | |
1117 | ||
d2830ba4 UD |
1118 | * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by |
1119 | Masahide Washizawa. | |
1120 | ||
8f3f1e09 | 1121 | * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu. |
6f2a8167 UD |
1122 | \f |
1123 | Version 2.1.3 | |
1124 | ||
1125 | * bug fixes | |
1126 | ||
01c771d0 UD |
1127 | \f |
1128 | Version 2.1.2 | |
1129 | ||
1130 | * bug fixes | |
1131 | ||
28f540f4 | 1132 | \f |
e518937a UD |
1133 | Version 2.1.1 |
1134 | ||
27995311 UD |
1135 | * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added. |
1136 | ||
16b0f634 UD |
1137 | * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean. |
1138 | ||
407d26b7 | 1139 | * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code). |
16b0f634 UD |
1140 | |
1141 | * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0. | |
1142 | ||
407d26b7 | 1143 | * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx. |
16b0f634 | 1144 | |
407d26b7 | 1145 | * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader). |
16b0f634 UD |
1146 | |
1147 | * Update timezone data files. | |
27995311 | 1148 | |
554b8800 UD |
1149 | * lots of charmaps corrections |
1150 | ||
1151 | * some new locale definitions and charmaps | |
1152 | ||
e518937a | 1153 | \f |
c84142e8 UD |
1154 | Version 2.1 |
1155 | ||
da2d1bc5 UD |
1156 | * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to |
1157 | conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been | |
1158 | adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications, | |
1159 | but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use | |
1160 | struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present | |
1161 | a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries. | |
1162 | ||
c84142e8 | 1163 | * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale |
1fb05e3d | 1164 | model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
c84142e8 | 1165 | |
1fb05e3d | 1166 | * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on |
c84142e8 UD |
1167 | symbol level. |
1168 | ||
1169 | * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical | |
1170 | command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. | |
377a515b | 1171 | |
cbdee279 | 1172 | * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. |
377a515b UD |
1173 | |
1174 | * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point | |
cbdee279 | 1175 | numbers. |
377a515b | 1176 | |
cbdee279 | 1177 | * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. |
e61abf83 | 1178 | |
48869012 UD |
1179 | * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides |
1180 | information and interfaces for the available integer types. | |
e61abf83 | 1181 | |
813f4f4d UD |
1182 | * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math |
1183 | library. | |
1184 | ||
e61abf83 | 1185 | * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math |
cbdee279 UD |
1186 | functions from ISO C 9X. |
1187 | ||
1188 | * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or | |
1189 | real valued functions. | |
e61abf83 | 1190 | |
a5a0310d | 1191 | * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. |
e61abf83 | 1192 | |
a5a0310d UD |
1193 | * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. |
1194 | ||
1195 | * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. | |
cbdee279 | 1196 | |
440d13e2 | 1197 | * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv). |
cbdee279 UD |
1198 | |
1199 | * Optimized string functions have been added. | |
1200 | ||
1201 | * The localedata addon is now part of glibc. | |
2eb45444 UD |
1202 | |
1203 | * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper. | |
ea278354 | 1204 | |
48244d09 UD |
1205 | * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching |
1206 | daemon for NSS (nscd). | |
1207 | ||
1208 | Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under | |
1209 | Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes | |
1210 | ||
0dee6738 | 1211 | user system wall |
48244d09 | 1212 | |
0dee6738 | 1213 | using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s |
48244d09 | 1214 | |
0dee6738 | 1215 | using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s |
48244d09 | 1216 | |
0dee6738 | 1217 | using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s |
48244d09 | 1218 | |
0dee6738 UD |
1219 | using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s |
1220 | ||
1221 | using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s | |
1222 | ||
1223 | using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s | |
48244d09 | 1224 | |
48244d09 UD |
1225 | Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times. |
1226 | It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is | |
0dee6738 | 1227 | horribly slow. |
48244d09 | 1228 | |
0dee6738 UD |
1229 | [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was |
1230 | distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced. | |
ea278354 UD |
1231 | |
1232 | * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family. | |
48869012 UD |
1233 | |
1234 | * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module. | |
20833331 UD |
1235 | |
1236 | * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN | |
1237 | and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper). | |
1238 | ||
1239 | * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland). | |
48244d09 | 1240 | |
62595351 UD |
1241 | * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott |
1242 | Bambrough. | |
1243 | ||
1244 | * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the | |
1245 | latest draft standards. | |
1246 | ||
1770a20d UD |
1247 | * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added. |
1248 | ||
48244d09 UD |
1249 | * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release: |
1250 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
62595351 | 1251 | addseverity NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 1252 | alphasort64 NEW: LFS |
62595351 UD |
1253 | argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext |
1254 | argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1255 | argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1256 | argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1257 | argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1258 | argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1259 | argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1260 | argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1261 | argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1262 | argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
e980ca92 UD |
1263 | authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC |
1264 | authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC | |
1265 | authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
1266 | backtrace NEW: GNU ext. |
1267 | backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext. | |
1268 | backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext. | |
1269 | cacos NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1270 | cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1271 | cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1272 | cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1273 | cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1274 | cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1275 | capget NEW: kernel | |
1276 | capset NEW: kernel | |
1277 | carg NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1278 | cargf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1279 | cargl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1280 | casin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1281 | casinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1282 | casinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1283 | casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1284 | casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1285 | casinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1286 | catan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1287 | catanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1288 | catanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1289 | catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1290 | catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1291 | catanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 | 1292 | cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1293 | ccos NEW: ISO C 9x |
1294 | ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1295 | ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1296 | ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1297 | ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1298 | ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1299 | cexp NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1300 | cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1301 | cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1302 | cimag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1303 | cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1304 | cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1305 | clearerr_locked REMOVED | |
1306 | clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
1307 | clog NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1308 | clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1309 | clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1310 | clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1311 | clogf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1312 | clogl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1313 | conj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1314 | conjf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1315 | conjl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1316 | cpow NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1317 | cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1318 | cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1319 | cproj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1320 | cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1321 | cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1322 | creal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1323 | crealf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1324 | creall NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1325 | creat64 NEW: LFS | |
1326 | csin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1327 | csinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1328 | csinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1329 | csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1330 | csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1331 | csinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1332 | csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1333 | csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1334 | csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1335 | ctan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1336 | ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1337 | ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1338 | ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1339 | ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1340 | ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
1341 | des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC |
1342 | ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC | |
62595351 | 1343 | endutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1344 | exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x |
1345 | exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1346 | exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1347 | exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1348 | exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1349 | exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1350 | fattach NEW: STREAMS | |
1351 | fdetach NEW: STREAMS | |
1352 | fdim NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1353 | fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1354 | fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1355 | feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1356 | fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1357 | fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1358 | fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1359 | feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1360 | feof_locked REMOVED | |
1361 | feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1362 | ferror_locked REMOVED | |
1363 | fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1364 | fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1365 | fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1366 | fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1367 | feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1368 | fflush_locked REMOVED | |
1369 | ffsl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1370 | ffsll NEW: GNU ext. | |
1371 | fgetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1372 | fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1373 | fileno_locked REMOVED | |
1374 | fma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1375 | fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1376 | fmal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1377 | fmax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1378 | fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1379 | fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1380 | fmin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1381 | fminf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1382 | fminl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
62595351 | 1383 | fmtmsg NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1384 | fopen64 NEW: LFS |
1385 | fputc_locked REMOVED | |
1386 | fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1387 | fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1388 | freopen64 NEW: LFS | |
1389 | fseeko NEW: Unix98 | |
1390 | fsetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1391 | fstatfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1392 | fstatvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1393 | fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1394 | ftello NEW: Unix98 | |
1395 | ftello64 NEW: LFS | |
1396 | ftruncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1397 | ftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1398 | fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1399 | gai_strerror NEW: IPv6 | |
1400 | gamma_r REMOVED | |
1401 | gammaf_r REMOVED | |
1402 | gammal_r REMOVED | |
1403 | getchar_locked REMOVED | |
1404 | getdate NEW: Unix98 | |
1405 | getdate_err NEW: Unix98 | |
1406 | getdate_r NEW: GNU ext. | |
1407 | getmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1408 | getnameinfo NEW: IPv6 | |
e980ca92 | 1409 | getnetname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1410 | getpmsg NEW: STREAMS |
1411 | getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1412 | getrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 UD |
1413 | getutxent NEW: Unix98 |
1414 | getutxid NEW: Unix98 | |
1415 | getutxline NEW: Unix98 | |
48244d09 UD |
1416 | glob64 NEW: GNU ext. |
1417 | globfree64 NEW: GNU ext. | |
1418 | gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext. | |
1419 | gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext. | |
1420 | grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
e980ca92 | 1421 | host2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1422 | iconv NEW: iconv |
1423 | iconv_close NEW: iconv | |
1424 | iconv_open NEW: iconv | |
1425 | if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1426 | if_indextoname NEW: IPv6 | |
1427 | if_nameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1428 | if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1429 | in6addr_any NEW: IPv6 | |
1430 | in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6 | |
1431 | inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6 | |
1432 | isastream NEW: STREAMS | |
1433 | iswblank NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 UD |
1434 | key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC |
1435 | key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1436 | key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC | |
1437 | key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1438 | key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC | |
1439 | key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC | |
1440 | key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC | |
1441 | key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC | |
1442 | key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
1443 | llrint NEW: ISO C 9x |
1444 | llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1445 | llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1446 | llround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1447 | llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1448 | llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1449 | log2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1450 | log2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1451 | log2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1452 | lrint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1453 | lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1454 | lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1455 | lround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1456 | lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1457 | lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1458 | lseek64 NEW: LFS | |
1459 | makecontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1460 | mempcpy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1461 | mmap64 NEW: LFS | |
1462 | moncontrol REMOVED | |
1463 | modify_ldt NEW: kernel | |
1464 | nan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1465 | nanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1466 | nanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1467 | nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1468 | nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1469 | nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
1470 | netname2host NEW: Secure RPC |
1471 | netname2user NEW: Secure RPC | |
42bd0a85 UD |
1472 | nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x |
1473 | nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1474 | nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
48244d09 UD |
1475 | nftw NEW: Unix98 |
1476 | nftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1477 | open64 NEW: LFS | |
e980ca92 | 1478 | passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1479 | pow10 NEW: GNU ext. |
1480 | pow10f NEW: GNU ext. | |
1481 | pow10l NEW: GNU ext. | |
1482 | pread NEW: Unix98 | |
1483 | pread64 NEW: LFS | |
1484 | printf_size NEW: GNU ext. | |
1485 | printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext. | |
1486 | profil_counter REMOVED | |
1487 | pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED | |
1488 | pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED | |
1489 | ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1490 | ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1491 | putc_locked REMOVED | |
1492 | putchar_locked REMOVED | |
1493 | putgrent NEW: GNU ext. | |
1494 | putmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1495 | putpmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
62595351 | 1496 | pututxline NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1497 | pwrite NEW: Unix98 |
1498 | pwrite64 NEW: LFS | |
1499 | readdir64 NEW: LFS | |
1500 | readdir64_r NEW: LFS | |
1501 | remquo NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1502 | remquof NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1503 | remquol NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1504 | round NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1505 | roundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1506 | roundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1507 | rtime NEW: GNU ext. | |
1508 | scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1509 | scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1510 | scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1511 | scandir64 NEW: LFS | |
1512 | sendfile NEW: kernel | |
1513 | setcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1514 | setrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 | 1515 | setutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1516 | sighold NEW: Unix98 |
1517 | sigignore NEW: Unix98 | |
1518 | sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1519 | sigrelse NEW: Unix98 | |
1520 | sigset NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1521 | sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1522 | sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1523 | sincos NEW: GNU ext. | |
1524 | sincosf NEW: GNU ext. | |
1525 | sincosl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1526 | statfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1527 | statvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1528 | statvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1529 | strcasestr NEW: GNU ext. | |
48244d09 UD |
1530 | strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x |
1531 | strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1532 | strverscmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 | 1533 | svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1534 | svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx |
1535 | svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
1536 | swapcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1537 | tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1538 | tdestroy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1539 | tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1540 | tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1541 | tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1542 | tmpfile64 NEW: LFS | |
1543 | trunc NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1544 | truncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1545 | truncf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1546 | truncl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1547 | umount2 NEW: kernel | |
1548 | unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
62595351 | 1549 | updwtmpx NEW: Unix98 |
e980ca92 | 1550 | user2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
62595351 | 1551 | utmpxname NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 1552 | versionsort NEW: GNU ext. |
3ef4002b | 1553 | versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext. |
48244d09 UD |
1554 | waitid NEW: Unix98 |
1555 | wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1556 | wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1557 | wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext. | |
1558 | wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1559 | wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1560 | wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1561 | wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1562 | wcswcs NEW: Unix98 | |
1563 | wordexp NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1564 | wordfree NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1565 | write_profiling REMOVED | |
e980ca92 UD |
1566 | xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
1567 | xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC | |
1568 | xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1569 | xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1570 | xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC | |
1571 | xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1572 | xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1573 | xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1574 | xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1575 | xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1576 | xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC | |
1577 | xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC | |
1578 | xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 | 1579 | xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext |
e980ca92 | 1580 | xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 | 1581 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
1770a20d UD |
1582 | \f |
1583 | Version 2.0.6 | |
1584 | ||
1585 | * more bug fixes | |
1586 | ||
a5a0310d UD |
1587 | \f |
1588 | Version 2.0.5 | |
1589 | ||
1590 | * more bug fixes | |
1591 | ||
1592 | * inet_ntoa is thread-safe | |
1593 | ||
1594 | * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc | |
1595 | ||
1596 | * rewrite of cbrt function | |
1597 | ||
1598 | * update of timezone data | |
1599 | \f | |
1600 | Version 2.0.4 | |
1601 | ||
1602 | * more bug fixes | |
1603 | \f | |
1604 | Version 2.0.3 | |
1605 | ||
1606 | * more bug fixes | |
c84142e8 | 1607 | \f |
795fbc9a UD |
1608 | Version 2.0.2 |
1609 | ||
1610 | * more bug fixes | |
1611 | ||
1612 | * add atoll function | |
1613 | ||
1614 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
e61abf83 UD |
1615 | |
1616 | * fix math functions | |
795fbc9a UD |
1617 | \f |
1618 | Version 2.0.1 | |
1619 | ||
1620 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
1621 | ||
1622 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
1623 | ||
1624 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
1625 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
1626 | ||
1627 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
1628 | \f | |
40a4b79f | 1629 | Version 2.0 |
28f540f4 | 1630 | |
d3669add RM |
1631 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
1632 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
1633 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
1634 | ||
28f540f4 RM |
1635 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
1636 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
1637 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
1638 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
787126fe RM |
1639 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
1640 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
28f540f4 RM |
1641 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
1642 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
1643 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
dcf0671d UD |
1644 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
1645 | files in the ELF format. | |
49e522bf RM |
1646 | |
1647 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
1648 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
1649 | ||
1650 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
b25c5d66 RM |
1651 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
1652 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
1653 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
1654 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
1655 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
1656 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
1657 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
33a934a3 UD |
1658 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
1659 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
1660 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
49e522bf | 1661 | |
71733723 RM |
1662 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
1663 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
d3669add RM |
1664 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
1665 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
1666 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
71733723 | 1667 | |
f7eac6eb | 1668 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
33a934a3 UD |
1669 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
1670 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
1671 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
1672 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
1673 | ||
1674 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
f7eac6eb | 1675 | |
5f0e6fc7 RM |
1676 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
1677 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
33a934a3 UD |
1678 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
1679 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
1680 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
1681 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
1682 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
1683 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
1684 | NSS services available. | |
5f0e6fc7 | 1685 | |
49e522bf RM |
1686 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
1687 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
1688 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
1689 | ||
1690 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
1691 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
1692 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
1693 | ||
1694 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
1695 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
1696 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
1697 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
1698 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1699 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
1700 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
1701 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
1702 | ||
1703 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
1704 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
1705 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
1706 | ||
49e522bf RM |
1707 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
1708 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
1709 | ||
f7eac6eb | 1710 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
33a934a3 | 1711 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
b7407d63 | 1712 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
33a934a3 UD |
1713 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification. |
1714 | ||
1715 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
1716 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
1717 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f7eac6eb | 1718 | |
71733723 | 1719 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
49e522bf RM |
1720 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
1721 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
1722 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
d365fd2c RM |
1723 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
1724 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
49e522bf | 1725 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
d365fd2c | 1726 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
49e522bf RM |
1727 | |
1728 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
1729 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
1730 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
1731 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
1732 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
1733 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
1734 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
28f540f4 RM |
1735 | |
1736 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
1737 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
1738 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
1739 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
1740 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
1741 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
1742 | ||
1743 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
1744 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
1745 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1746 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
1747 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
1748 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
28f540f4 | 1749 | |
28f540f4 RM |
1750 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
1751 | ||
1752 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
1753 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
1754 | their use is discouraged. | |
1755 | ||
1756 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
1757 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
787126fe | 1758 | |
22a1292a RM |
1759 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
1760 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
49e522bf RM |
1761 | |
1762 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
1763 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
1764 | ||
1765 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
1766 | see <dirent.h>. | |
1767 | ||
1768 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
1769 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
33a934a3 UD |
1770 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
1771 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
1772 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
342414a6 RM |
1773 | |
1774 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
1775 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
1776 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
1777 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
c709e372 RM |
1778 | |
1779 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
1780 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
1781 | ||
1782 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
1783 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
1784 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
1785 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
1786 | number generator. | |
1787 | ||
1788 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
1789 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
1790 | ||
1791 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
1792 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
1793 | ||
71733723 | 1794 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
c709e372 | 1795 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
33a934a3 UD |
1796 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
1797 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
c709e372 | 1798 | |
d3669add RM |
1799 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
1800 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1801 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
1802 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
1803 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
1804 | ||
1805 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
1806 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
d3669add | 1807 | |
c709e372 | 1808 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
40a4b79f RM |
1809 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
1810 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
1811 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
1812 | ||
1813 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
1814 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
1815 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
1816 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
1817 | programs already written to use it.) | |
71733723 RM |
1818 | |
1819 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
1820 | constants. | |
1821 | ||
1822 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
1823 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
1824 | ||
1825 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
1826 | a given effective group ID. | |
1827 | ||
1828 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
1829 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
1830 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
1831 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
1832 | ||
1833 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
6d52618b | 1834 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
71733723 RM |
1835 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
1836 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
1837 | doing the same thing. | |
1838 | ||
1839 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
1840 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
1841 | ||
1842 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
33a934a3 | 1843 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
71733723 RM |
1844 | |
1845 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
1846 | ||
f7eac6eb RM |
1847 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
1848 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
1849 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
6d52618b | 1850 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
999493cb | 1851 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
f7eac6eb RM |
1852 | |
1853 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
1854 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
52e9a9d1 RM |
1855 | |
1856 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
33a934a3 UD |
1857 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
1858 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
1859 | function. | |
40a4b79f RM |
1860 | |
1861 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
1862 | ||
1863 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
1864 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
1865 | strings. | |
1866 | ||
1867 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
1868 | and writing the utmp file. | |
33a934a3 UD |
1869 | |
1870 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
1871 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
1872 | ||
1873 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
1874 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
1875 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
1876 | ||
1877 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
1878 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
1879 | ||
1880 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
1881 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
1882 | specification. | |
1883 | ||
1884 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
1885 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
1886 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
1887 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
1888 | ||
1889 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
1890 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
1891 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
1892 | ||
1893 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
1894 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
1895 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
1896 | expression matcher. | |
1897 | ||
1898 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
1899 | functionality. | |
1900 | ||
1901 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
1902 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1903 | ||
1904 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
1905 | ||
1906 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
1907 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
1908 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
28f540f4 RM |
1909 | \f |
1910 | Version 1.09 | |
1911 | ||
1912 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
1913 | ||
1914 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
1915 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
1916 | ||
1917 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
1918 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
1919 | ||
1920 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
1921 | run without an operating system. | |
1922 | ||
1923 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
1924 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
1925 | ||
1926 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
1927 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
1928 | ||
1929 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
1930 | ||
1931 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
1932 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
1933 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
1934 | ||
1935 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
1936 | conventions. | |
1937 | ||
1938 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
1939 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
1940 | \f | |
1941 | Version 1.08 | |
1942 | ||
1943 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
1944 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
1945 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
1946 | ||
1947 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
1948 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
1949 | ||
1950 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
1951 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
1952 | ||
1953 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
1954 | ||
1955 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
1956 | ||
1957 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
1958 | compatibility. | |
1959 | ||
1960 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
1961 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
1962 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
1963 | ||
1964 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
1965 | ||
1966 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
1967 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
1968 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
1969 | ||
1970 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
1971 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
1972 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
1973 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
1974 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
1975 | on a block). | |
1976 | ||
1977 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
1978 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
1979 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
1980 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
1981 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
1982 | cross-compiler. | |
1983 | ||
1984 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
1985 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
1986 | \f | |
1987 | Version 1.07 | |
1988 | ||
1989 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
1990 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
1991 | ||
1992 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
1993 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
1994 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
1995 | ||
1996 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
1997 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
1998 | address of the last character written. | |
1999 | ||
2000 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
2001 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
2002 | ||
2003 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
2004 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
2005 | ||
2006 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
2007 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
2008 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
2009 | you dereference this pointer. | |
2010 | ||
2011 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
2012 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
2013 | ||
2014 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
2015 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
2016 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
2017 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
2018 | ||
2019 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
2020 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
2021 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
2022 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
2023 | \f | |
2024 | Version 1.06 | |
2025 | ||
2026 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
2027 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
2028 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
2029 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
ea278354 | 2030 | Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org. |
28f540f4 RM |
2031 | |
2032 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
2033 | ||
2034 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
2035 | ||
2036 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
2037 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
2038 | ||
2039 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
2040 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
2041 | ||
2042 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
2043 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
2044 | ||
2045 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
2046 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
2047 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
2048 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
2049 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
2050 | ||
2051 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
2052 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
2053 | ||
2054 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
2055 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
2056 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
2057 | malloc'd string. | |
2058 | ||
2059 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
2060 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
2061 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
2062 | ||
2063 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
2064 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
2065 | \f | |
2066 | Version 1.05 | |
2067 | ||
2068 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
2069 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
2070 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
2071 | ||
2072 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
2073 | characters. | |
2074 | ||
2075 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
2076 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
2077 | ||
2078 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
2079 | \f | |
2080 | Version 1.04 | |
2081 | ||
2082 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
2083 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
2084 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
2085 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
2086 | ||
2087 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
2088 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
2089 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
2090 | ||
2091 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
2092 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
2093 | ||
2094 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
2095 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
2096 | made itself into a shared library. | |
2097 | ||
2098 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
2099 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
2100 | ||
2101 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
2102 | with limited length. | |
2103 | ||
2104 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
2105 | ||
2106 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
2107 | ||
2108 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
2109 | ||
2110 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
2111 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
2112 | ||
2113 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
2114 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
2115 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
2116 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
2117 | ||
2118 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
2119 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
2120 | ||
2121 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
2122 | ||
2123 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
2124 | things to your strings. | |
2125 | ||
2126 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
2127 | ||
2128 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
2129 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
2130 | supporting those systems. | |
2131 | ||
2132 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
2133 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
2134 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
2135 | configuration files. | |
2136 | ||
2137 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
2138 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
2139 | ||
2140 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
56ddf355 UD |
2141 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared |
2142 | in <strings.h>.) | |
28f540f4 RM |
2143 | |
2144 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
2145 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
2146 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
2147 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
2148 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
2149 | required storage is not available. | |
2150 | ||
2151 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
2152 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
28f540f4 RM |
2153 | |
2154 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
2155 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
2156 | \f | |
2157 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
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2162 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
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