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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
bfff8b1b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
d9814526 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.26.1
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10The following bugs are resolved with this release:
11
12 [21885] getaddrinfo: Release resolver context on error in gethosts
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14Version 2.26
15
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16Major new features:
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18* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
19 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
20 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
21 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
22 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
23 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
24 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
25
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26* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
27 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 28 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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29 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
30 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
31 are rendered with pango, see for example:
32 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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34* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
35 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
36 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 38* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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40 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
41 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
42 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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44 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
45 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
46 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
47 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
48 object are still limited to six search domains.
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50 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
51 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
52 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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54* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
55 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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57* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
58 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
59 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
60 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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62* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
63 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
64 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
65 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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67* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
68 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
69 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
70 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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72* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
73 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
74 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 75
2b2ccd0c 76* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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77 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
78 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
79 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 81 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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82 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
83 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
84 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
85 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
86
87 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
88 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
89 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
90 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
91 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
92 interfaces should be used instead.
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94Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
95
96* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
97 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
98 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
99 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
100 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
101 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
102 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
103 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
104
105* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
106 removed.
107
108* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 109 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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110 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
111 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
112
113* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
114 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
115 default.
116
117 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
118 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
119 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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120 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
121 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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123 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
124 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
125 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
126 name service modules, to be built and installed.
127
128* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
129 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
130 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
131 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
132
133* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
134 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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136* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
137 exported by accident.
138
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139* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
140 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
141 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
142
143* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
144 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
145 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
146 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
147
148* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
149
150* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
151
152* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
153 free instead.
154
155* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
156 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
157
158* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
159 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
160
161* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
162 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
163 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
164 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
165 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
166 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
167 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
168 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
169
170* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
171 synced with the kernel:
172
173 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
174 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
175
176 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
177 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
178 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
179
180 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
181 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
182
183Changes to build and runtime requirements:
184
185* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
186 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
187 x86-32 and x86-64.)
188
7e368000 189* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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191* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
192 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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194 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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195 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
196 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
197 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 198 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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200Security related changes:
201
e14a2772 202* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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203 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
204
205* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
206 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
207
208* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
209 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
210 (CVE-2010-3192).
211
212* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
213 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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215The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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217 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
218 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
219 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
220 fields
221 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
222 (CVE-2010-3192)
223 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
224 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
225 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
226 ld.bfd is available
227 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
228 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
229 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
230 x86 and other generic code
231 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
232 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
233 incorrect
234 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
235 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
236 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
237 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
238 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
239 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
240 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
241 resolver
242 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
243 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
244 order of 0D36 and 0D37
245 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
246 chillu characters
247 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
248 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
249 receiving data
250 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
251 whitespace
252 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
253 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
254 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
255 for Peru
256 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
257 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
258 failures consistently
259 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
260 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
261 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
262 frame-pointer on i386
263 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
264 register
265 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
266 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
267 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
268 generic c code is used
269 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
270 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
271 around 4000
272 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
273 (CVE-2017-12133)
274 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
275 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
276 with -lieee
277 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
278 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
279 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
280 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
281 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
282 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
283 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
284 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
285 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
286 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
287 remove()
288 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
289 checked for errors.
290 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
291 new posix_spawn implementation
292 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
293 leads to lower CPU frequency
294 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
295 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
296 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
297 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
298 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
299 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
300 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
301 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
302 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
303 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
304 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
305 not support gethostbyname4_r
306 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
307 switching
308 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
309 arenas
310 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
311 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
312 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
313 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
314 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
315 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
316 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
317 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
318 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
319 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
320 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
321 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
322 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
323 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
324 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
325 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
326 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
327 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
328 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
329 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
330 retry value
331 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
332 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
333 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
334 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
335 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
336 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
337 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
338 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
339 [21537] libc:
340 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
341 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
342 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
343 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
344 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
345 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
346 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
347 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
348 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
349 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
350 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
351 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
352 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
353 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
354 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
355 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
356 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
357 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
358 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
359 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
360 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
361 issue on x86-64
362 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
363 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
364 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
365 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
366 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
367 construction
368 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
369 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
370 between_2_3
371 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
372 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
373 conditions
374 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
375 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
376 Hindi Locale
377 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
378 posix/sched_cpucount.c
379 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
380 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
381 locale
382 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
383 leading to relocation crash
384 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
385 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
386 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
387 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
388 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
389 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
390 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
391 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
392 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
393 locale
394 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
395 locale
396 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
397 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
398 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
399 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
400 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
401 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
402 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
403 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
404 strings
405 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
406 protector=all
407 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
408 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
409 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
410 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
411 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
412 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
413 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
414 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
415 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
416 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
417 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
418 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
419 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
420 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
421 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
422 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
423 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
424 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
425 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
426 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
427 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
428 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
429 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
430 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
431 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
432 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
433 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
434 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
435 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
436 with unicode 9.0
437 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
438 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
439 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
440 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
441 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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445
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447 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
448 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
449 Library.
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452 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 453 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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455
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456* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
457 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
458 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
459 the GNU C Library.
460
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462 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
463 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
464 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
465 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
466 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
467 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
468 will not.
469
470 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
471 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
472 many years.
473
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474* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
475 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
476 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
477
478 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
479 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
480 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
481 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
482 problem.
483
ec94343f 484* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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485 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
486 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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489 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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490 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
491 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
492 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
493 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
494 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
495 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
496 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
497 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
498 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
499 WINT_WIDTH.
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501* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
502
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503 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
504
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505 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
506 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
507 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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510 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
511
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512 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
513 fminmagf, fminmagl.
514
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515 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
516
29cb9293 517 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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519 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
520 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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523
eb3c12c7 524 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 525 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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528 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
529
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531 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
532 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
533
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534* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
535 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
536 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
537 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
538 effects of the memory clear).
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541 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
542 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
543 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
544
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546 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
547 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
548 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
549 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
550 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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553 have been added.
554
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555* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
556 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
557 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
558 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
559 as large as several megabytes.
560
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561* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
562 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
563 been removed.
564
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565* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
566 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
567 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
568 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
569 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
570 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
571 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
572
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573* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
574 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
575 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
576 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
577
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579 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
580 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
581 Internet.
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584 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
585 They were already unimplemented.
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587* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
588 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
589 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
590 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
591
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592* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
593 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
594 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
595 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
596 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
597
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598* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
599 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
600 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
601 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
602 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
603
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604* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
605 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
606 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
607 did not reflect that.
608
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610 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
611 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
612 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
613 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
614 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
615 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
616 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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619 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
620 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
621 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
622
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624 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
625 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
626 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
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629 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
630 guarantees.
631
632* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
633 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
634 make state changes.
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637
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639 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
640 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
641 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 642 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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645 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
646 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
647 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
648 (CVE-2015-5180)
649
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651
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652 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
653 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
654 protector-all
655 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
656 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
657 before it started waiting
658 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
659 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
660 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
661 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
662 wrong type
663 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
664 library linked with pthread
665 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
666 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
667 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
668 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
669 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
670 after being __libc_memalign()'d
671 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
672 when it shouldnt
673 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
674 not
675 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
676 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
677 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
678 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
679 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
680 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
681 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
682 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
683 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
684 termination
685 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
686 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
687 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
688 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
689 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
690 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
691 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
692 causes a segmentation fault
693 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
694 linking
695 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
696 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
697 uninitialized GOT
698 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
699 versions
700 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
701 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
702 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
703 is always true.
704 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
705 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
706 modes
707 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
708 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
709 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
710 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
711 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
712 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
713 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
714 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
715 libpthread.a
716 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
717 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
718 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
719 _res_hconf
720 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
721 information.
722 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
723 penalty
724 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
725 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
726 cause transition penalty
727 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
728 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
729 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
730 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
731 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
732 mcount.oS)
733 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
734 Checking
735 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
736 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
737 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
738 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
739 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
740 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
741 multi-arch
742 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
743 (RES_USEBSTRING)
744 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
745 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
746 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
747 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
748 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
749 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
750 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
751 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
752 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
753 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
754 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
755 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
756 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
757 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
758 glibc
759 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
760 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
761 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
762 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
763 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
764 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
765 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
766 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
767 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
768 U+20AC), not same as GBK
769 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
770 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
771 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
772 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
773 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
774 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
775 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
776 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
777 RES_USE_INET6
778 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
779 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
780 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
781 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
782 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
783 wrong condition
784 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
785 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
786 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
787 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
788 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
789 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
790 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
791 clang
792 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
793 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
794 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
795 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
796 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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800* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
801 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
802 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
803 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
804 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
805 architectures.
806
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808 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
809 been included in previous releases.
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812 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
813
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814* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
815 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
816 instead of “union wait”.
817
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818* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
819 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
820 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
821 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
822 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
823 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
824 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
825
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827 API.
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830 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
831 drop it.
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834 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
835 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
836 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
837 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
838 extensions.
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842* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
843 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
844 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
845
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846* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
847 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
848 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
849 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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851* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
852 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
853 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
854
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855* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
856 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
857 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
858
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859* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
860 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
861 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
862 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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866 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
867 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
868 of MS-DOS.
869 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
870 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
871 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
872 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
873 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
874 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
875 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
876 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
877 CLDR data
878 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
879 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
880 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
881 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
882 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
883 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
884 romanisation
885 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
886 and +/-
887 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
888 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
889 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
890 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
891 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
892 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
893 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
894 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
895 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
896 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
897 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
898 all locales
899 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
900 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
901 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
902 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
903 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
904 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
905 execute
906 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
907 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
908 -Wsystem-headers
909 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
910 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
911 Romanian locale data
912 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
913 symbol
914 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
915 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
916 language
917 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
918 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
919 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
920 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
921 machine
922 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
923 description
924 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
925 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
926 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
927 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
928 when using RTLD_NEXT
929 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
930 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
931 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
932 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
933 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
934 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
935 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
936 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
937 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
938 Excavator core
939 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
940 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
941 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
942 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
943 double range
944 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
945 part zero incorrect
946 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
947 equality tests
948 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
949 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
950 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
951 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
952 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
953 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
954 glibc-2.22
955 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
956 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
957 'tst-numeric.c'
958 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
959 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
960 low part
961 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
962 result
963 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
964 unaligned stack
965 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
966 pointers and lengths in error-case.
967 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
968 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
969 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
970 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
971 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
972 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
973 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
974 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
975 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
976 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
977 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
978 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
979 modes
980 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
981 server addresses
982 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
983 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
984 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
985 response to getaddrinfo
986 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
987 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
988 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
989 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
990 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
991 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
992 sometimes incorrect
993 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
994 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
995 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
996 record types
997 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
998 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
999 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1000 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1001 (CVE-2016-3075)
1002 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1003 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1004 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1005 resolving symbols
1006 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1007 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1008 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1009 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1010 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1011 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1012 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1013 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1014 gethosts
1015 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1016 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1017 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1018 (CVE-2016-3706)
1019 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1020 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1021 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1022 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1023 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1024 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1025 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1026 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1027 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1028 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1029 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1030 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1031 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1032 executable
1033 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1034 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1035 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1036 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1037 XPG3
1038 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1039 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1040 (CVE-2016-4429)
1041 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1042 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1043 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1044 AS not supporting AVX512
1045 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1046 sNaN argument
1047 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1048 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1049 argument
1050 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1051 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1052 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1053 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1054 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1055 eax=0x80000001
1056 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1057 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1058 subnormals
1059 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1060 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1061 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1062 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1063 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1064 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1065 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1066 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1067 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1068 input
1069 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1070 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1071 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1072 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1073 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1074 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1075 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1076 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1077 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1078 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1079 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1080 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1081 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1082 double rounding
1083 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1084 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1085 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1086 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1087 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1088 (Only arm/linux)
1089 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1090 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1091 fallbacks
1092 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1093 "invalid" exceptions
1094 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1095 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1096 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1097 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1098 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1099 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1100 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1101 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1102 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1104Version 2.23
1105
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1106* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1107 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1108 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1109 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1110 89, 16061, and 18568.
1111
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1112* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1113 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1114 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1115 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1116 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1117 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1118 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1119
8b7b7f75
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1120* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1121 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1122 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1123
2eecc8af
FW
1124* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1125 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1126 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1127 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1128 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1129 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1130 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1131
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1132* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1133 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1134 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1135 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1136 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1137 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1138 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1139 Ericsson.)
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1141* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1142 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1143 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1144 independent of the GNU C Library.
1145
1c70b6f1
ZW
1146* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1147 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 1148
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1149* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1150 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1151 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1152 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1153 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1154 Linux kernel.
1155
1efad39b
SL
1156* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1157 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 1158
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1159* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1160 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1161 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1162 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1163 defining their own copy.
1164
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JM
1165* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1166 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1167 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1169Security related changes:
1170
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1171* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1172 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1173
1174* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1175 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1176 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1177 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1178 (CVE-2015-8777)
1179
1180* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1181 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1182
1183* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1184 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1185
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1186* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1187 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1188 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 1189
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1190* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1191 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1192 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1193 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1194 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1195 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1196 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1197 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1198 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1199 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1200 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1201 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1202 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1203
ad372e29 1204The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1206 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1207 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1208 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1209 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1210 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1211 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1212 use `mkstemp'
1213 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1214 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1215 overflow/underflow errors
1216 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1217 overflow/underflow
1218 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1219 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1220 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1221 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1222 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1223 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1224 are not contiguous
1225 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1226 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1227 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1228 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1229 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1230 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1231 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1232 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1233 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1234 all exceptions
1235 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1236 arguments
1237 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1238 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1239 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1240 should include
1241 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1242 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1243 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1244 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1245 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1246 GNU/Linux
1247 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1248 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1249 arguments
1250 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1251 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1252 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1253 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1254 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1255 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1256 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1257 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1258 rounding results
1259 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1260 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1261 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1262 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1263 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1264 fails
1265 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1266 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1267 block boundary
1268 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1269 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1270 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1271 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1272 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1273 4.7?
1274 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1275 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1276 (related to lock elision)
1277 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1278 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1279 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1280 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1281 (CVE-2015-8779)
1282 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1283 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1284 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1285 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1286 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1287 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1288 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1289 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1290 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1291 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1292 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1293 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1294 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1295 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1296 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1297 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1298 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1299 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1300 contains a vector instruction exception.
1301 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1302 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1303 locales
1304 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1305 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1306 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1307 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1308 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1309 missing break ?
1310 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1311 32bit processes
1312 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1313 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1314 infinity
1315 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1316 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1317 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1318 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1319 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1320 be forced unloaded
1321 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1322 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1323 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1324 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1325 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1326 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1327 statically too large
1328 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1329 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1330 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1331 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1332 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1333 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1334 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1335 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1336 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1337 FUTEX_SHARED
1338 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1339 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1340 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1341 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1342 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1343 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1344 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1345 opendir()
1346 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1347 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1348 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1349 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1350 signgam
1351 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1352 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1353 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1354 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1355 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1356 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1357 dependencies
1358 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1359 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1360 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1361 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1362 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1363 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1364 (CVE-2015-8776)
1365 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1366 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1367 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1368 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1369 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1370 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1371 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1372 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1373 contention
1374 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1375 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1376 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1377 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1378 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1379 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1380 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1381 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1382 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1383 rounding modes
1384 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1385 ILP32
1386 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1387 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1388 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1389 threshold
1390 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1391 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1392 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1393 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1394 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1395 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1396 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1397 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1398 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1399 pthread_setaffinity_np
1400 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1401 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1402 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1403 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1404 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1405 prelink
1406 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1407 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1408 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1409 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1410 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1411 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1412 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1413 bits/mathcalls.h
1414 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1415 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1416 for C99-based standards
1417 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1418 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1419 math-only
1420 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1421 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1422 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1423 disabled
1424 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1425 "inexact" exceptions
1426 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1427 arguments
1428 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1429 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1430 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1431 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1432 rules
1433 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1434 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1435 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1436 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1437 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1438 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1439 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1440 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1441 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1442 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1443 from 32bit
1444 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1445 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1446 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1447 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1448 subnormals
1449 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1450 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1451 error on 32-bit architectures
1452 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1453 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1454 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1455 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1456 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1457 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1458 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1459 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1460 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1461 -Os
1462 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1463 CPU's.
1464 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1465 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1466 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1467 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1468 architectures
1469 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1471Version 2.22
1472
1473* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1474
3df5cd98 1475 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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1476 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1477 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1478 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1479 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1480 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1481 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1482 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1483 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1484 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1485 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1486 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1487 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1488 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1489 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1490 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1491 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1492 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1493 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1494 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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1496* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1497 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1498
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1499* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1500 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1501 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1502 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1503 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1504 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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1506* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1507 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1508 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1509 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1510 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1511
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1512* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1513 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1514 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1515
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1516* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1517 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1518 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1519 17998.
1520
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1521* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1522 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1523 condition in some applications.
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1524
1525* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1526 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1527 pow, powf.
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1528 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1529 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1530 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1531 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1532 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1533
1534* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1535 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1536 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1537 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1538
1539* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1540 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1541 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1543* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1544 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1545
1546* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1547 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1548 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1549
a03ba363 1550 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1551 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1552 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1554Version 2.21
1555
1556* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1557
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1559 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1560 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1561 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1562 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1563 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1564 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1565 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1566 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1567 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1568 17892.
1569
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1570* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1571 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1572 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1573 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1574 intended.
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1576* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1577 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1578 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1579 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1580 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1581 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1583* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1584
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1585* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1586 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1587 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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1589* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1590 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1591 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1592 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1593 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1594 effects being visible outside transactions.
1595
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1596* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1597 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1599* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1600
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1601* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1602 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
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1604 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1605 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
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1607* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1608 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1609
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1610* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1611 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1612 format.
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1614* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1615 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1616 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1617
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1618* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1619 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1620
0d560bbf 1621* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1622
1623* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1624 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1625 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1626 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1627
1628* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1629 with newer versions of bison.
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1630
1631* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1632 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1633 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1634 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1635 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1636 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1637 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1638 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1639 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1640 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1641 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1642 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1643 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1644
1645 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1646 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1647 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1648 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1649 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1651Version 2.20
1652
1653* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1654
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1655 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1656 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1657 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1658 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1659 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1660 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1661 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1662 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1663 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1664 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1665 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1666 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1667 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1668 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1669 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
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1671* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1672 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1673 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1674 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1675 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1676 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1677 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1678 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1679 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1680 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1681
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1682* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1683 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1684 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1685 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1686 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
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1688* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1689
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1690* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1691 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1692
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1693* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1694 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1695 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1696 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1697 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1698 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1699
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1700* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1701 from ports.
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1702
1703* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1704 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1705 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1706 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1707 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1708 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1709 test macros defined.
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1710
1711* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1712
1713* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1714 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1715 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1716 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1717 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1718 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1719 is not built.
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1720
1721* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1722 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1723 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1724 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1725 invocation.
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1726
1727* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1728 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1729 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1731* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1732 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1733 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1734 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1735
1736* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1737 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1738 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1739 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1740 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1741 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1742 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1743 additional checks.
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1744
1745* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1746 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1747 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1748 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1749 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1750 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1751 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1752 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1753 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1754
1755* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1756 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1757 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1758 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1759 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1760 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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1761
1762* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1763 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1764 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1765 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1767Version 2.19
1768
1769* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1770
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1771 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1772 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1773 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1774 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1775 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1776 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1777 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1778 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1779 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1780 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1781 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1782 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1783 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1784 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1785 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1786 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1787 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1788 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1789
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1790* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1791 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1792
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1793* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1794 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1795 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1796 extension which uses __block.
1797
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1798* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1799 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1800 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1801 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1802 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1803
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1804* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1805 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1806 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1807 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1808 if malloc fails.
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1810* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1811 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1812 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1813 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1814 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1815
1816* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1817 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1818 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1819
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1820* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1821 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1822 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1823 #15856, #15857).
1824
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1825* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1826 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1827
82bab04b 1828* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1829 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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1831* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1832
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1833* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1834 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1835
3e181dda 1836* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 1837
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1838* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1839
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1840* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1841 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1842 for which the C library was built.
1843
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1844* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1845 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1846 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1847 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1848 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1849 in the following circumstances:
1850
1851 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1852
1853 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1854 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1855
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1856* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1857 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1858
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1859* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1860 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 1861
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1862* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1863
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1864* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1865 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1866
8b7d57cd 1867* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1868
1869* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1870
fd712ef3 1871* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1872
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1873* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1874 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1875 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1876 disable some of those declarations.
1877
7011c262 1878* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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1879 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1880 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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1881
1882* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1883 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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1884
1885* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1886 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1887 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1888 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1889 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1890 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1891 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1892 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1893 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1894 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1895 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1896 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1897 require recompilation.
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1899Version 2.18
1900
1901* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1902
17db6e8d 1903 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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1904 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1905 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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1906 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1907 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1908 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1909 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1910 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1911 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1912 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1913 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1914 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1915 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1916 15755, 15759.
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1918* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1919 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1920 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1921 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1922 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1923 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 1924
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1925* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1926 #15078).
1927
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1928* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1929 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 1930
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1931* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1932 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1933 destructor calls to glibc.
1934
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1935* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1936 output.
1937
1938* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1939 non-x86 architectures.
1940
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1941* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1942
1943* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1944
1945* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1946 Richard Henderson.
1947
1948* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1949
1950* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1951 Richard Henderson.
1952
1953* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1954 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1955
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1956* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1957
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1958* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1959 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 1960
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1961* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1962 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 1963
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1964* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1965 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1966 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1967
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1968* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
1969 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1970 attributes of a process.
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1971
1972* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
1973 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
1974 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
1975 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
1976 mutexes.
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1977
1978* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
1979 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1980
1981* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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1982\f
1983Version 2.17
1984
1985* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1986
80ceeaee 1987 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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1988 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
1989 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
1990 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
1991 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
1992 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
1993 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
1994 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
1995 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
1996 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
1997 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
1998 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
1999 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2000 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2001 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2002
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2003* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2004
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2005* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2006 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2007
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2008* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2009 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2010
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2011* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2012
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2013* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2014 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2015 zEnterprise z196.
2016 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2017
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2018* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2019 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2020 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2021
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2022* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2023 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2024
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2025* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2026 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2027
7aab07e4 2028* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2029 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2030
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2031* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2032 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2033
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2034* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2035 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2036 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2037 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2038
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2039* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2040 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2041
85429b1a 2042* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2043 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2045
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2046* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2047 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2048 information in --help and --version output.
2049
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2050* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2051 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2052 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2053
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2054* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2055 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2056 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2057 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2058 when the mode is enabled.
2059
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2060* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2061 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2062 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2063 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2064 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2065 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2066 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
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2068* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2069 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2071Version 2.16
2072
2073* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2074
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2075 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2076 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2077 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2078 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2079 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2080 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2081 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2082 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2083 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2084 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2085 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2086 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2087 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2088 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2089 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2090 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2091 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2092 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2093 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2094 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2095 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2096 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2097 14277, 14278.
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2099* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2100 configuring glibc with:
2101 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2102 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2103 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2104
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2105* ISO C11 support:
2106
2107 + define static_assert
2108
2109 + do not declare gets
2110
2111 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2112
2113 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2114 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2115 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2116 implementation.
8d44e150 2117
74033a25 2118 + timespec_get added
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2119
2120 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2121
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2122 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2123
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2124 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2125
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2128* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2129
2130* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2131 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2132
2133* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2134 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2135
2136* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2137 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2138 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2139 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2140 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2141
21708942 2142* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2143 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2144 before 2.6.
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2146* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2147 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2148 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2149
83678f76 2150* New locales: mag_IN
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2151
2152* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2153 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2154 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2155 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2156 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2157
2158* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2159
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2160* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2161 and Will Schmidt.
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2162
2163* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2164
2165* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2166 without a previously built glibc.
2167
2168* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2169 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2170
2171* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2172 now supported for ARM processors.
2173
2174* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2175 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2176 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2177
2178* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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2179
2180* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2181 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2182 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2183 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2184
2185* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2186 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2187 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2188 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2190* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2191 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2192 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2193 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2194 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2195
2196* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2197 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2198 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2199 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 2201Version 2.15
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2204
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2205 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2206 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2207 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2208 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2209 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2210 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2211 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2213* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2216* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2217 and support for initgroups lookups.
2218 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2220* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2221 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2223* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2224 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2226* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2227 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2228 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2229
d42964a0 2230* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2231 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2232
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2233* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2234 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2235 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2236
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2237* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2238 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2239
2240* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2241 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2243* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2244 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2246* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2247 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2249* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2250 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2251
2252* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2253 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2255* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2256
2257* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2258 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2259
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2260* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2261 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2262
6b64057b 2263* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2268
553149f6 2269 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2270 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2271 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2272 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2274 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2275 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2276 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2277 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2278 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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2280* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2281 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2282 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2283 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2284
2285 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2286 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2287 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2289
c6489db3 2290* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2291 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2292
72d1dddb 2293* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2294 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2295
2296* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2297
2298* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2300
2301* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2302 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2303 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2304 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2307
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2308* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2309
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2310 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2311 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2312 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2313 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2314 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2315
10b3bedc 2316* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2317
ac2b484c 2318* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 2319
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2320* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2321 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2322 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2324Version 2.12
2325
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2326* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2327
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2328 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2329 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2330 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2331 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2332 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2333 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2334 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2335 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2337* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 2338
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2339* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2340
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2341* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2342
2343* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2344 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2346
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2347* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2348 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2349 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2350 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2351 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2352
d36b9613 2353* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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2355Version 2.11
2356
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2357* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2358
2359 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2360 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2361 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2362 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2363 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2364 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2365
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2366* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2367 mkostemps64
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2368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2369
24ab9c76 2370* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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2371 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2372
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2373* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2374 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2375
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2376* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2377
0122f28e 2378* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 2379 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2380 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2381 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2382
9d36a6c4 2383 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2384 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2385
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2386* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2387 strstr, strcasestr.
2388 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2389
2390* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2391 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2392
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2393* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2394 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2395
2396* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2397 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2398
2399* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2400 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2401 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2402 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2403 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2404 necessity is every process again.
2405 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2406
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2407* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2408 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2409
2410* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2411 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2412
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2413* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2414 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2415 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2416
9dd5b8a1 2417* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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2419Version 2.10
2420
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2421* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2422
2423 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2424 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2425 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2426 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2427 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2428
bb066545 2429* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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2430 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2431
425ce2ed 2432* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2433 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2434
1fdd89a7 2435* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2436 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2438* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2439 now in POSIX.
77db439e 2440
1f04d005 2441* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2442 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 2443
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2444* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2445 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2446
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2447* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2448 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2449
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2450* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2451 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2452
2453* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2454 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2455 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2456
735be400 2457* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 2458
84aa52d7 2459* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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2460 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2461
2462* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2463 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2464 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2465
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2466* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2467 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2468
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2469* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2470 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2471 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2472 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2473 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2474 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2477
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2479
2480 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2481 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2482 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2483 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2484 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2485
b29899ae 2486* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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2487 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2488
2489* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2490 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2492* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2495* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2496 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2497 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2498
2499* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2500 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2504* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 2505 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2507* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2508 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2509 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2510 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2511
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2512* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2513 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2515* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2516 Sinhala)
48b22986 2517 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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2519* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2522
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2523* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2524
2525 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2526 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2527 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2528 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2529 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2530 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2531 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2532
e038616f 2533* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 2534
77751669 2535* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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2537* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2538 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2539
2540* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2541
2542* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2543 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2544
2545* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2546 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2547
2548* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2549 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2550 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2551
2552* Faster memset for x86-64.
2553 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2554
2555* Faster memcpy on x86.
2556 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2557
2558* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2561* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2562 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2565
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2567
2568 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2569 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2570 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2571 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2572 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2573
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2574* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2575 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2576
2577* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2578
2579* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2580 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2581 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2582
2583* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2584 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2585
28919a77 2586* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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2587 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2588
2589* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2590
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2591* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2593
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2594* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2595 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2596
2597* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2598 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2599
2600* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2601
2602* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2605* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2606 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2607 yo_NG.
2608
2609+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2610 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2615
2616 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2617 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2618 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2619 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2620 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2621 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2622 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2623 4702, 4858
2624
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2628
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2632
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2634
2635 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2636 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2637 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2638 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2639 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2640 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2641 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2642 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2643 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2644
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2647 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2649* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2650 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2651
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2654* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2656* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2657 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2658 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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2661
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2664 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2665 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2666
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2668 Ulrich Drepper.
2669
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2670* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2671
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2672* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2673 Ulrich Drepper.
2674
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2675* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2676
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2678 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2681
2682* More overflow detection functions.
2683
2684* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2685 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2687 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2688 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2689 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2690 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2691 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2692 by Masahide Washizawa.
2693
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2694* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2695 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2697* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2698 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2699 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2700 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2702* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2703 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2704
2705* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2706
2707* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2708 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2709 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2710
2711* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2712 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2713
2714* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2715 for compatibility with some other systems.
2716
2717* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2719Version 2.3.6
2720
2721* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2722
2723 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2724 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2725 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2726 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2727 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2728 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2729
2730 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2731
2732* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2733
2734* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2736Version 2.3.5
2737
2738* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2739
2740 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2741 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2742 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2743 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2744
2745 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2747Version 2.3.4
2748
2749* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2751
2752* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2753 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2754 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2755
2756* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2757 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2758
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2760 efficiently.
2761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2762
2763* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2764 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2765 handling data.
2766
2767* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2768 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 2769 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2770
2771* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2772 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2773
2774* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2775 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2776 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2777 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2778
2779* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2780 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2781 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2782 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2783
2784* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2785 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2786 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2787 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2788 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2790Version 2.3.3
2791
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2792* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2793 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2794
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2795* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2796 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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2799 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2800
2801* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2804* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2805 by Roland McGrath.
2806
c5af724c 2807* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2808 and Ulrich Drepper.
2809
2810* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2811 RFC 3484.
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2813Version 2.3.2
2814
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2815* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2816 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2817 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2818 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2819 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2820 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2821 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2822 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2823 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2824
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2825* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2826 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2827 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2828
2829* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2830
2831* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2832 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2834* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2835 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2836
52a16e58 2837* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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2839* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2840 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2841
2842* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2843 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2844 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2845 of weak definition in ld.so.
2846
2847* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2848 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2849
2850* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2851 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2855* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2856 charsets.
2857
2858* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2859 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2861* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2862 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2864* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2865 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2866
bb0ec5bd 2867* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2868 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2869 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2871* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2872 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2873
bb0ec5bd 2874* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2875 implementation of regex.
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2877* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2878 Unicode 3.2.
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2880* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2881 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2883* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2884 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2885 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2886
2887* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2889
2890* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2891 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2892 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2894* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2895 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2897* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2898 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2899 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2901* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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2904
2905* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2906 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2907
2908* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2909 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2911Version 2.2.5
2912
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2913* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2914 128-bit long double format.
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2916* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2917 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 2918
ad2e4f18 2919* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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2921* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
2922
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2923* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2924 as well.
2925
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2926* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2927 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2929* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2931Version 2.2.4
2932
2995f70e 2933* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2934 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2935
2936* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2937 support Unicode 3.1.
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2938
2939* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2940 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 2941
69d5f925 2942* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 2943
69d5f925 2944* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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2945 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
2946 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2947
2948* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2949 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2950
2951* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2952 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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2954* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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2957
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2959 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
2960 in float, double, and long double format.
2961
f128331c 2962* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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2963 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
2964 128-bit long double format.
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2966* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2967 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2968 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2969 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2970
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2972 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
2973 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2975* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
2976 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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2978* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
2979 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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2981* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
2982 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
2983 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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2985* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
2986 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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2988* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
2989 of functions for Linux/x86.
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2991* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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2994
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2996 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
2997 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
2998 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
2999 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3000 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3001 other headers.
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3003* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3004 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3005
3006* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3007 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3008 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3009 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3010
3011* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3012 locales. While
3013
3014 locale -a
3015
3016 only lists the names of the supported locales
3017
3018 locale -a --verbose
3019
3020 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3021 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3023Version 2.2.1
3024
3025* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3026 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3027 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3028 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3029 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3030
3031 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3032
3033 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3034
3035 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3036
3037* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3038 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3039 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3040
3041* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3042 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3043
3044* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3045 changed from the default "C" locale.
3046
3047* The usual bug fixes.
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3049Version 2.2
3050
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3051* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3052 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3053 is in progress.
3054
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3055* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3056
793bd4d9 3057* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 3058
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3059 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3060 obviously requires a database library being available.
3061
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3062* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3063
abbffdf9 3064* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3066* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3067 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3068
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3069* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3070
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3071* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3072 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3073 and Mark Kettenis.
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3074
3075 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3076 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3077 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3078
a00c3ca9 3079 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3080 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3081
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3082* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3083 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3084 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3085
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3086* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3087 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3088 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3089 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3090
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3091 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3092 structures for the wide character tables.
3093
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3094* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3095
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3096* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3097
3098* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3099
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3100* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3101 and Yutaka Niibe.
3102
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3103* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3104
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3105* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3106
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3107* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3108
3109* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3110
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3111* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3112
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3113* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3114 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3115 implemented for Linux.
3116
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3117* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3118 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3119 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3120 versions.
3121
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3122* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3123 Masahide Washizawa.
3124
8f3f1e09 3125* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3126\f
3127Version 2.1.3
3128
3129* bug fixes
3130
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3131\f
3132Version 2.1.2
3133
3134* bug fixes
3135
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3137Version 2.1.1
3138
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3139* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3140
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3141* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3142
407d26b7 3143* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3144
3145* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3146
407d26b7 3147* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3148
407d26b7 3149* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3150
3151* Update timezone data files.
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3153* lots of charmaps corrections
3154
3155* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3156
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3158Version 2.1
3159
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3160* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3161 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3162 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3163 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3164 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3165 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3166
c84142e8 3167* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3168 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3169
1fb05e3d 3170* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3171 symbol level.
3172
3173* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3174 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3175
cbdee279 3176* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3177
3178* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3179 numbers.
377a515b 3180
cbdee279 3181* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3182
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3183* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3184 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3185
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3186* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3187 library.
3188
e61abf83 3189* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3190 functions from ISO C 9X.
3191
3192* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3193 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3194
a5a0310d 3195* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 3196
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3197* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3198
3199* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3200
440d13e2 3201* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3202
3203* Optimized string functions have been added.
3204
3205* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3206
3207* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3209* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3210 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3211
3212 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3213 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3214
0dee6738 3215 user system wall
48244d09 3216
0dee6738 3217 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3218
0dee6738 3219 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3220
0dee6738 3221 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3223 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3224
3225 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3226
3227 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3229 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3230 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3231 horribly slow.
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3233 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3234 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3235
3236* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3237
3238* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3239
3240* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3241 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3242
3243* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3245* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3246 Bambrough.
3247
3248* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3249 latest draft standards.
3250
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3251* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3252
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3253* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3254~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3255addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3256alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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3257argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3258argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3259argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3260argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3261argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3262argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3263argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3264argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3265argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3266argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3267authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3268authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3269authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3270backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3271backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3272backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3273cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3274cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3275cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3276cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3277cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3278cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3279capget NEW: kernel
3280capset NEW: kernel
3281carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3282cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3283cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3284casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3285casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3286casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3287casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3288casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3289casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3290catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3291catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3292catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3293catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3294catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3295catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3297ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3298ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3299ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3300ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3301ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3302ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3303cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3304cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3305cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3306cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3307cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3308cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3309clearerr_locked REMOVED
3310clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3311clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3312clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3313clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3314clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3315clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3316clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3317conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3318conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3319conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3320cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3321cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3322cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3323cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3324cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3325cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3326creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3327crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3328creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3329creat64 NEW: LFS
3330csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3331csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3332csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3333csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3334csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3335csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3336csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3337csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3338csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3339ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3340ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3341ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3342ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3343ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3344ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3345des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3346ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3347endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3348exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3349exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3350exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3351exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3352exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3353exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3354fattach NEW: STREAMS
3355fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3356fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3357fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3358fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3359feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3360fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3361fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3362fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3363feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3364feof_locked REMOVED
3365feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3366ferror_locked REMOVED
3367fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3368fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3369fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3370fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3371feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3372fflush_locked REMOVED
3373ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3374ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3375fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3376fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3377fileno_locked REMOVED
3378fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3379fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3380fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3381fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3382fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3383fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3384fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3385fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3386fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3387fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3388fopen64 NEW: LFS
3389fputc_locked REMOVED
3390fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3391fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3392freopen64 NEW: LFS
3393fseeko NEW: Unix98
3394fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3395fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3396fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3397fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3398ftello NEW: Unix98
3399ftello64 NEW: LFS
3400ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3401ftw64 NEW: LFS
3402fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3403gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3404gamma_r REMOVED
3405gammaf_r REMOVED
3406gammal_r REMOVED
3407getchar_locked REMOVED
3408getdate NEW: Unix98
3409getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3410getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3411getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3412getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3414getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3415getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3416getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3417getutxent NEW: Unix98
3418getutxid NEW: Unix98
3419getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3420glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3421globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3422gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3423gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3424grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3425host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3426iconv NEW: iconv
3427iconv_close NEW: iconv
3428iconv_open NEW: iconv
3429if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3430if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3431if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3432if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3433in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3434in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3435inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3436isastream NEW: STREAMS
3437iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3438key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3439key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3440key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3441key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3442key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3443key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3444key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3445key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3446key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3447llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3448llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3449llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3450llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3451llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3452llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3453log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3454log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3455log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3456lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3457lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3458lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3459lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3460lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3461lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3462lseek64 NEW: LFS
3463makecontext NEW: Unix98
3464mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3465mmap64 NEW: LFS
3466moncontrol REMOVED
3467modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3468nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3469nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3470nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3471nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3472nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3473nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3474netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3475netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3476nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3477nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3478nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3479nftw NEW: Unix98
3480nftw64 NEW: LFS
3481open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3482passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3483pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3484pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3485pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3486pread NEW: Unix98
3487pread64 NEW: LFS
3488printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3489printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3490profil_counter REMOVED
3491pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3492pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3493ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3494ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3495putc_locked REMOVED
3496putchar_locked REMOVED
3497putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3498putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3499putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3500pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3501pwrite NEW: Unix98
3502pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3503readdir64 NEW: LFS
3504readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3505remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3506remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3507remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3508round NEW: ISO C 9x
3509roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3510roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3511rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3512scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3513scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3514scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3515scandir64 NEW: LFS
3516sendfile NEW: kernel
3517setcontext NEW: Unix98
3518setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3519setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3520sighold NEW: Unix98
3521sigignore NEW: Unix98
3522sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3523sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3524sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3525sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3526sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3527sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3528sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3529sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3530statfs64 NEW: LFS
3531statvfs NEW: Unix98
3532statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3533strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3534strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3535strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3536strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3537svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3538svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3539svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3540swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3541tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3542tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3543tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3544tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3545tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3546tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3547trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3548truncate64 NEW: LFS
3549truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3550truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3551umount2 NEW: kernel
3552unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3553updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3554user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3555utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3556versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3557versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3558waitid NEW: Unix98
3559wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3560wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3561wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3562wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3563wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3564wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3565wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3566wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3567wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3568wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3569write_profiling REMOVED
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3570xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3571xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3572xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3573xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3574xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3575xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3576xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3577xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3578xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3579xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3580xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3581xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3582xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3583xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3584xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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3587Version 2.0.6
3588
3589* more bug fixes
3590
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3592Version 2.0.5
3593
3594* more bug fixes
3595
3596* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3597
3598* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3599
3600* rewrite of cbrt function
3601
3602* update of timezone data
3603\f
3604Version 2.0.4
3605
3606* more bug fixes
3607\f
3608Version 2.0.3
3609
3610* more bug fixes
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3612Version 2.0.2
3613
3614* more bug fixes
3615
3616* add atoll function
3617
3618* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3619
3620* fix math functions
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3622Version 2.0.1
3623
3624* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3625
3626* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3627
3628* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3629 the ELF dynamic loader.
3630
3631* support for parallel builds is improved
3632\f
40a4b79f 3633Version 2.0
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3635* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3636 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3637 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3638
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3639* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3640 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3641 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3642 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3643 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3644 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3645 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3646 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3647 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3648 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3649 files in the ELF format.
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3650
3651* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3652 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3653
3654* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3655 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3656 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3657 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3658 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3659 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3660 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3661 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3662 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3663 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3664 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3666* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3667 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3668 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3669 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3670 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3671
f7eac6eb 3672* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3673 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3674 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3675 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3676 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3677
3678* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3680* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3681 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3682 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3683 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3684 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3685 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3686 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3687 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3688 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3689
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3690* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3691 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3692 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3693
3694* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3695 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3696 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3697
3698* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3699 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3700 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3701 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3702
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3703* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3704 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3705 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3706
3707* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3708 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3709 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3710
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3711* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3712 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3713
f7eac6eb 3714* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3715 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3716 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3717 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3718
3719* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3720 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3721 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3722
71733723 3723* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3724 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3725 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3726 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3727 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3728 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3729 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3730 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3731
3732* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3733 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3734 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3735 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3736 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3737 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3738 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3739
3740* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3741 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3742 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3743 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3744 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3745 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3746
3747* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3748 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3749
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3750* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3751 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3752 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3754* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3755
3756* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3757 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3758 their use is discouraged.
3759
3760* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3761 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3763* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3764 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3765
3766* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3767 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3768
3769* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3770 see <dirent.h>.
3771
3772* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3773 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3774 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3775 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3776 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3777
3778* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3779 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3780 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3781 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3782
3783* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3784 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3785
3786* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3787 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3788 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3789 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3790 number generator.
3791
3792* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3793 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3794
3795* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3796 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3797
71733723 3798* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3799 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3800 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3801 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 3802
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3803* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3804
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3805* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3806 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3807 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3808
3809* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3810 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 3812* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3813 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3814 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3815 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3816
3817* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3818 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3819 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3820 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3821 programs already written to use it.)
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3822
3823* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3824 constants.
3825
3826* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3827 with 4.4 BSD.
3828
3829* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3830 a given effective group ID.
3831
3832* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3833 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3834 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3835 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3836
3837* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3838 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3839 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3840 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3841 doing the same thing.
3842
3843* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3844 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3845
3846* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3847 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3848
3849* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3850
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3851* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3852 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3853 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3854 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3855 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3856
3857* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3858 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3859
3860* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3861 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3862 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3863 function.
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3864
3865* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3866
3867* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3868 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3869 strings.
3870
3871* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3872 and writing the utmp file.
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3873
3874* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3875 Thorsten Kukuk.
3876
3877* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3878 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3879 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3880
3881* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3882 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3883
3884* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3885 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3886 specification.
3887
3888* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3889 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3890 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3891 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3892
3893* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3894 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3895 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3896
3897* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3898 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3899 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3900 expression matcher.
3901
3902* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3903 functionality.
3904
3905* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3906 by Ulrich Drepper.
3907
3908* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3909
3910* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3911 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3912 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3914Version 1.09
3915
3916* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3917
3918* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3919 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3920
3921* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3922 want to put themselves in the background.
3923
3924* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3925 run without an operating system.
3926
3927* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3928 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3929
3930* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3931 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3932
3933* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3934
3935* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3936 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3937 have YP (aka NIS).
3938
3939* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3940 conventions.
3941
3942* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3943 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3944\f
3945Version 1.08
3946
3947* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3948 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3949 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3950
3951* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3952 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3953
3954* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3955 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3956
3957* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3958
3959* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3960
3961* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3962 compatibility.
3963
3964* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3965 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3966 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3967
3968* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3969
3970* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3971 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
3972 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
3973
3974* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
3975 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
3976 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
3977 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
3978 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
3979 on a block).
3980
3981* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
3982 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
3983 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
3984 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
3985 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
3986 cross-compiler.
3987
3988* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
3989 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
3990\f
3991Version 1.07
3992
3993* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
3994 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
3995
3996* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
3997 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
3998 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
3999
4000* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4001 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4002 address of the last character written.
4003
4004* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4005 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4006
4007* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4008 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4009
4010* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4011 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4012 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4013 you dereference this pointer.
4014
4015* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4016 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4017
4018* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4019 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4020 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4021 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4022
4023* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4024 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4025 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4026 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4027\f
4028Version 1.06
4029
4030* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4031 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4032 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4033 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4034 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4035
4036* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4037
4038* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4039
4040* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4041 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4042
4043* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4044 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4045
4046* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4047 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4048
4049* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4050 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4051 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4052 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4053 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4054
4055* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4056 to the error code in `errno'.
4057
4058* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4059 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4060 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4061 malloc'd string.
4062
4063* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4064 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4065 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4066
4067* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4068 uniquely-named temporary file.
4069\f
4070Version 1.05
4071
4072* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4073 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4074 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4075
4076* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4077 characters.
4078
4079* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4080 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4081
4082* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4083\f
4084Version 1.04
4085
4086* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4087 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4088 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4089 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4090
4091* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4092 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4093 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4094
4095* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4096 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4097
4098* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4099 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4100 made itself into a shared library.
4101
4102* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4103 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4104
4105* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4106 with limited length.
4107
4108* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4109
4110* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4111
4112* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4113
4114* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4115 function for traversing a directory tree.
4116
4117* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4118 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4119 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4120 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4121
4122* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4123 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4124
4125* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4126
4127* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4128 things to your strings.
4129
4130* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4131
4132* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4133 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4134 supporting those systems.
4135
4136* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4137 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4138 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4139 configuration files.
4140
4141* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4142 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4143
4144* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4145 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4146 in <strings.h>.)
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4147
4148* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4149 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4150 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4151 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4152 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4153 required storage is not available.
4154
4155* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4156 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4157
4158* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4159 latest files released from Berkeley.
4160\f
4161----------------------------------------------------------------------
4162Copyright information:
4163
58b587c1 4164Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4165
4166 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4167 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4168 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4169 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4170
4171 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4172 of this document, or of portions of it,
4173 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4174 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4175\f
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