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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.29
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10Major new features:
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12* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
13 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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15* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
16 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
17 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
18 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
19 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
20 configured location.
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424c4f60 22* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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24* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
25 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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27* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
28 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
29 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
30 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
31 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
32 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
33 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
34 process actually does not use HTM).
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36* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
37 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
38 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
39 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
40 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
41 of the same name.
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43* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
44 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
45 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 46 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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47 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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49* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
50 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
51 supported:
52 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
53 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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55* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
56 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
57 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
58 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
59 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
60 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
61 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
62
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63Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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65* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
66 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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68* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
69 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
70 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
71 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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73* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
74 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
75 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
76 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
77 structures.
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79* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
80 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
81 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
82 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
83 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
84 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
85
86 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
87 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
88 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
89 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
90 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
91
92 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
93 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
94 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
95
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96Changes to build and runtime requirements:
97
c6982f7e 98* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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100* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
101 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
102
103 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
104 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
105
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106Security related changes:
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108 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
109 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
110 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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112 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
113 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
114 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
115 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
116 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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118 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
119 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
120 or command injection issues in applications.
121
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122The following bugs are resolved with this release:
123
124 [The release manager will add the list generated by
125 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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128Version 2.28
129
130Major new features:
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132* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
133 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
134 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
135 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
136 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
137 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
138 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
139 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
140 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
141 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
142 archive or binary locales.
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144* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
145 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
146 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
147 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
148 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
149 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
150 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
151 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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152 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
153 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
154 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
155 validated for i686.
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157* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
158 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
159 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
160 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
161 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
162 field) to indicate such support is required.
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164* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
165 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
166 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
167
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168* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
169 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
170
171 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
172 fMxaddfNx functions.
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174 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
175 fMxsubfNx functions.
176
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177 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
178 fMxmulfNx functions.
179
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180 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
181 fMxdivfNx functions.
182
e607a352 183* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 184 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 185 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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186 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
187 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 189* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 190 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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192* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
193 patches.
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195* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
196 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
197 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
198 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
199 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
200 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
201 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
202 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
203
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204* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
205 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
206 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
207 the fstatat64 function.
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209* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
210 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
211 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
212 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
213 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
214 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
215 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
216 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
217 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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219* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
220 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
221 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
222 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
223 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
224 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
225 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
226 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
227 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
228 results in a load failure now.
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230* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
231 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
232 <threads.h>:
233
234 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
235 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
236
237 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
238 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
239
240 - call_once for function call synchronization.
241
242 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
243 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
244
245 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
246
247 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
248
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249Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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251* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
252 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
253 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
254
255* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
256 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
257 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
258 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
259 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
260 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
261
262* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
263 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
264 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
265 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
266 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
267 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
268 (Bug #1190.)
269
270* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
271 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
272 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
273 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
274 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
275 further explanation.
276
277 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
278 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
279 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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281* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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283* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
284 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
285 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
286
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287* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
288 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
289 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
290 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
291
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292* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
293 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
294 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
295 for this function instead.
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297* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
298 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
299 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
300
301* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
302 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
303 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
304 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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306* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
307 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
308 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
309 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
310 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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312* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
313 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
314 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
315 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
316 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
317 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
318 such as libgcrypt.
319
320* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
321 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
322 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
323 enabled.
324
325* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
326 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
327 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
328
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329* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
330 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
331 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
332 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
333 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
334 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
335
336 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
337 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
338 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
339 behavior in a future release.
340
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341Changes to build and runtime requirements:
342
f2873d2d 343 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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345Security related changes:
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347 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
348 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
349 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
350 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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352 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
353 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
354
355 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
356 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
357 Izbyshev.
358
359 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
360 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
361 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
362
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365 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
366 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
367 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
368 when __WORDSIZE != 64
369 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
370 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
371 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
372 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
373 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
374 14651
375 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
376 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
377 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
378 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
379 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
380 conversion is given
381 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
382 date
383 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
384 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
385 scope with -O1 and higher
386 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
387 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
388 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
389 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
390 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
391 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
392 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
393 horrible machine code)
394 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
395 last constant.
396 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
397 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
398 symbols
399 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
400 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
401 defined
402 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
403 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
404 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
405 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
406 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
407 fpscr.c'
408 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
409 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
410 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
411 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
412 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
413 the base address
414 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
415 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
416 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
417 open_verify
418 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
419 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
420 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
421 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
422 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
423 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
424 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
425 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
426 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
427 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
428 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
429 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
430 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
431 dlopen
432 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
433 AT_SECURE=1
434 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
435 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
436 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
437 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
438 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
439 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
440 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
441 for Spanish with CLDR
442 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
443 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
444 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
445 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
446 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
447 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
448 es_BO
449 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
450 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
451 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
452 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
453 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
454 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
455 dlopen failures
456 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
457 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
458 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
459 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
460 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
461 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
462 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
463 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
464 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
465 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
466 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
467 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
468 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
469 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
470 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
471 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
472 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
473 makecontext
474 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
475 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
476 required
477 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
478 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
479 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
480 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
481 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
482 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
483 disabled
484 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
485 failure
486 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
487 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
488 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
489 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
490 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
491 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
492 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
493 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
494 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
495 and libc build with -Os)
496 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
497 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
498 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
499 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
500 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
501 that changes /etc/passwd
502 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
503 (CVE-2018-11237)
504 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
505 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
506 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
507 posix/regcomp.c
508 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
509 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
510 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
511 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
512 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
513 AT_SECURE
514 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
515 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
516 parser.c
517 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
518 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
519 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
520 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
521 directed rounding
522 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
523 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
524 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
525 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
526 lookup
527 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
528 interposition
529 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
530 DSO boundaries.
531 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
532 <linux/time.h>
533 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
534 checking
535 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
536 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
537 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
538 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
539 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
540 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
541 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
542 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
543 processors
544 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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547Version 2.27
548
549Major new features:
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552 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 553 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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554 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
555 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
556 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
557 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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558 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
559 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 561* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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563 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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565* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
566
4cf82d23 567* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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570 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
571 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
572 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
573 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
574 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
575 from a security and performance perspective.
576
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577* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
578 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
579 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
580 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
581
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584 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
585 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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586 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
587
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590 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
591 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
592 _Float128.
593
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594* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
595 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
596 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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600* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
601 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
602 pkey_get.
603
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605
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606* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
607
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608* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
609 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
610 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
611
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613 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
614 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
615 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
616 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
617 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
618 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
619
620 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
621 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
622 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
623 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
624 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
625 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
626 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
627
628 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
629 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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631 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
632 respectively.
633
634 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
635 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
636 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
637 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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639 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
640 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
641 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
642
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644 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 645 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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648 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
649 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
650
651 - rv64imac lp64
652 - rv64imafdc lp64
653 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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656
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657* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
658 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 659 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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660 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
661 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
662 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
663 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
664 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
665 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
666 fix this.
667
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668* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
669 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
670 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
671
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672* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
673 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
674 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
675 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
676 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
677 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
678 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
679 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
680 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
681 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
682 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
683 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
684 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
685 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
686 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
687 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
688 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
689 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
690 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
691 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
692 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
693 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
694 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
695 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
696 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
697 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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700 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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703 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
704 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
705 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
706 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
707 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
708 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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710* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
711 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
712 exp10l for these functions instead.
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714* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
715 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
716 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
717
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718* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
719 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
720 ignored.
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722* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
723 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
724 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
725 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
726
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727* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
728 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
729
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730* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
731 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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733* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
734 programs.
735
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736* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
737
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738* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
739 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
740 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
741 instead.
742
743 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
744 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
745 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
746 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
747 use, but predates the bits convention.
748
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750
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751* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
752 subdirectory.
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754Security related changes:
755
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756 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
757 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
758 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
759 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
760 script.)
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762 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
763 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
764 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
765 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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767 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
768 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
769 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
770 of service.
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772 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
773 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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774 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
775
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776 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
777 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
778 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
779 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
780
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781 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
782 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
783 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
784 Qualys.
785
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786 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
787 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
788 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
789 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
790 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
791
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792 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
793 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
794 current directory.
795
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796 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
797 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
798 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
799
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800 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
801 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
802 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
803
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804 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
805 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
806 small, instead of NULL.
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811 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
812 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
813 locale
814 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
815 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
816 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
817 cases
818 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
819 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
820 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
821 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
822 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
823 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
824 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
825 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
826 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
827 "Bangla"
828 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
829 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
830 width Latin characters
831 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
832 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
833 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
834 letters
835 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
836 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
837 (CVE-2009-5064)
838 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
839 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
840 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
841 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
842 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
843 if malloc succeeded
844 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
845 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
846 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
847 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
848 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
849 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
850 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
851 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
852 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
853 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
854 U+309A
855 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
856 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
857 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
858 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
859 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
860 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
861 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
862 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
863 for Nicaragua
864 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
865 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
866 are not found.
867 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
868 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
869 access
870 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
871 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
872 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
873 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
874 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
875 __regcall calling convention
876 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
877 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
878 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
879 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
880 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
881 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
882 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
883 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
884 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
885 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
886 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
887 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
888 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
889 locale
890 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
891 protector=all
892 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
893 wcwidth
894 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
895 consistency check failures
896 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
897 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
898 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
899 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
900 PIE
901 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
902 locales
903 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
904 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
905 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
906 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
907 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
908 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
909 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
910 on memory allocation failure
911 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
912 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
913 the suspect)
914 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
915 default (i386)
916 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
917 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
918 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
919 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
920 instead of EAI_NODATA
921 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
922 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
923 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
924 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
925 implementation
926 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
927 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
928 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
929 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
930 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
931 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
932 allocation in syscall loops)
933 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
934 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
935 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
936 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
937 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
938 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
939 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
940 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
941 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
942 occur with -O3
943 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
944 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
945 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
946 amounts)
947 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
948 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
949 niu_NZ
950 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
951 checks
952 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
953 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
954 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
955 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
956 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
957 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
958 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
959 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
960 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
961 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
962 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
963 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
964 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
965 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
966 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
967 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
968 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
969 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
970 parsing after OOM
971 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
972 object
973 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
974 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
975 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
976 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
977 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
978 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
979 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
980 ppc64le
981 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
982 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
983 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
984 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
985 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
986 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
987 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
988 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
989 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
990 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
991 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
992 math_force_eval
993 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
994 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
995 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
996 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
997 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
998 the svid compat wrapper
999 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1000 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1001 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1002 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1003 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1004 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1005 --verbose.
1006 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1007 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1008 to 2.26
1009 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1010 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1011 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1012 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1013 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1014 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1015 (CVE-2017-15804)
1016 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1017 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1018 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1019 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1020 failure."
1021 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1022 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1023 -m32
1024 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1025 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1026 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1027 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1028 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1029 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1030 inside the ASCII printable range
1031 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1032 -mlong-double-64
1033 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1034 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1035 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1036 Internet
1037 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1038 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1039 backslash
1040 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1041 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1042 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1043 heaps in an arena
1044 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1045 networking interface
1046 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1047 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1048 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1049 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1050 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1051 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1052 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1053 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1054 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1055 order
1056 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1057 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1058 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1059 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1060 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1061 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1062 same as for Croatian
1063 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1064 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1065 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1066 for initial thread"
1067 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1068 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1069 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1070 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1071 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1072 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1073 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1074 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1075 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1076 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1077 modified in case of success
1078 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1079 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1080 success
1081 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1082 stack-protector=all
1083 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1084 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1085 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1086 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1087 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1088 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1089 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1090 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1091 adding it on top
1092 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1093 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1094 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1095 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1096 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1097 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1098 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1099 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1100 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1101 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1102 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1103 elision and tunables
1104 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1105 "invalid" exception
1106 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1107 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1108 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1109 exception
1110 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1111 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1112 power4
1113 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1114 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1115 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1116 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1117 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1118 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1119 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1120 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1121 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1125
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1128* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1129 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1130 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1131 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1132 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1133 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1134 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1135
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1137 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1138 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1139 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1140 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1141 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1142 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1144* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1145 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1146 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1147
2b2ccd0c 1148* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1150 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1151 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1152 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1154 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1155 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1156 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1157 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1158 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1160 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1161 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1162 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1164* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1165 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1167* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1168 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1169 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1170 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1172* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1173 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1174 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1175 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1177* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1178 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1179 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1180 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1182* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1183 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1184 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1185
2b2ccd0c 1186* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1188 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1189 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1190
2b2ccd0c 1191 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1193 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1194 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1195 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1196
1197 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1198 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1199 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1200 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1201 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1202 interfaces should be used instead.
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1204Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1205
1206* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1207 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1208 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1209 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1210 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1211 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1212 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1213 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1214
1215* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1216 removed.
1217
1218* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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1220 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1221 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1222
1223* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1224 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1225 default.
1226
1227 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1228 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1229 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1231 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1233 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1234 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1235 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1236 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1237
1238* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1239 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1240 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1241 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1242
1243* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1244 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1246* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1247 exported by accident.
1248
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1249* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1250 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1251 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1252
1253* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1254 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1255 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1256 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1257
1258* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1259
1260* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1261
1262* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1263 free instead.
1264
1265* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1266 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1267
1268* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1269 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1270
1271* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1272 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1273 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1274 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1275 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1276 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1277 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1278 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1279
1280* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1281 synced with the kernel:
1282
1283 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1284 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1285
1286 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1287 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1288 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1289
1290 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1291 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1292
1293Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1294
1295* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1296 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1297 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1298
7e368000 1299* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1302 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1304 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1306 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1307 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1308 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1311
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1313 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1314
1315* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1316 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1317
1318* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1319 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1320 (CVE-2010-3192).
1321
1322* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1323 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1327 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1328 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1329 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1330 fields
1331 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1332 (CVE-2010-3192)
1333 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1334 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1335 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1336 ld.bfd is available
1337 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1338 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1339 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1340 x86 and other generic code
1341 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1342 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1343 incorrect
1344 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1345 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1346 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1347 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1348 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1349 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1350 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1351 resolver
1352 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1353 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1354 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1355 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1356 chillu characters
1357 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1358 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1359 receiving data
1360 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1361 whitespace
1362 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1363 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1364 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1365 for Peru
1366 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1367 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1368 failures consistently
1369 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1370 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1371 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1372 frame-pointer on i386
1373 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1374 register
1375 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1376 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1377 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1378 generic c code is used
1379 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1380 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1381 around 4000
1382 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1383 (CVE-2017-12133)
1384 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1385 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1386 with -lieee
1387 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1388 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1389 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1390 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1391 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1392 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1393 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1394 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1395 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1396 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1397 remove()
1398 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1399 checked for errors.
1400 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1401 new posix_spawn implementation
1402 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1403 leads to lower CPU frequency
1404 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1405 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1406 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1407 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1408 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1409 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1410 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1411 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1412 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1413 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1414 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1415 not support gethostbyname4_r
1416 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1417 switching
1418 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1419 arenas
1420 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1421 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1422 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1423 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1424 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1425 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1426 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1427 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1428 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1429 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1430 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1431 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1432 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1433 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1434 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1435 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1436 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1437 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1438 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1439 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1440 retry value
1441 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1442 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1443 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1444 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1445 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1446 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1447 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1448 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1449 [21537] libc:
1450 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1451 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1452 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1453 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1454 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1455 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1456 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1457 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1458 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1459 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1460 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1461 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1462 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1463 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1464 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1465 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1466 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1467 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1468 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1469 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1470 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1471 issue on x86-64
1472 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1473 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1474 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1475 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1476 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1477 construction
1478 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1479 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1480 between_2_3
1481 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1482 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1483 conditions
1484 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1485 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1486 Hindi Locale
1487 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1488 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1489 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1490 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1491 locale
1492 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1493 leading to relocation crash
1494 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1495 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1496 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1497 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1498 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1499 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1500 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1501 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1502 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1503 locale
1504 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1505 locale
1506 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1507 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1508 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1509 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1510 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1511 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1512 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1513 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1514 strings
1515 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1516 protector=all
1517 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1518 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1519 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1520 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1521 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1522 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1523 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1524 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1525 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1526 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1527 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1528 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1529 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1530 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1531 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1532 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1533 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1534 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1535 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1536 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1537 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1538 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1539 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1540 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1541 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1542 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1543 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1544 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1545 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1546 with unicode 9.0
1547 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1548 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1549 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1550 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1551 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1552
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1554Version 2.25
1555
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1556* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1557 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1558 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1559 Library.
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1561* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1562 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1563 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1564 the GNU C Library.
1565
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1566* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1567 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1568 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1569 the GNU C Library.
1570
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1571* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1572 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1573 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1574 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1575 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1576 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1577 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1578 will not.
1579
1580 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1581 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1582 many years.
1583
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1584* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1585 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1586 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1587
1588 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1589 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1590 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1591 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1592 problem.
1593
ec94343f 1594* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1595 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1596 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 1597
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1598* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1599 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1600 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1601 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1602 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1603 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1604 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1605 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1606 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1607 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1608 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1609 WINT_WIDTH.
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1611* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1612
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1613 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1614
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1615 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1616 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1617 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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1619 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1620 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1621
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1622 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1623 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1624
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1625 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1626
29cb9293 1627 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1629 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1630 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1631
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1632 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1633
eb3c12c7 1634 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1635 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1636
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1637* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1638 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1639
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1640* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1641 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1642 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1643
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1644* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1645 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1646 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1647 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1648 effects of the memory clear).
1649
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1650* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1651 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1652 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1653 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1654
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1655* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1656 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1657 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1658 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1659 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1660 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 1661
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1662* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1663 have been added.
1664
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1665* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1666 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1667 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1668 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1669 as large as several megabytes.
1670
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1671* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1672 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1673 been removed.
1674
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1675* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1676 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1677 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1678 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1679 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1680 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1681 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1682
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1683* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1684 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1685 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1686 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1687
099191b1 1688* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1689 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1690 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1691 Internet.
1692
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1693* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1694 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1695 They were already unimplemented.
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1697* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1698 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1699 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1700 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1701
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1702* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1703 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1704 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1705 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1706 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1707
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1708* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1709 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1710 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1711 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1712 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1713
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1714* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1715 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1716 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1717 did not reflect that.
1718
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1719* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1720 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1721 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1722 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1723 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1724 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1725 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1726 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1727
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1728* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1729 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1730 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1731 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1732
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1733* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1734 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1735 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1736 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1737
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1738* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1739 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1740 guarantees.
1741
1742* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1743 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1744 make state changes.
1745
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1747
fc82b0a2 1748* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1749 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1750 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1751 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1752 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1754* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1755 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1756 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1757 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1758 (CVE-2015-5180)
1759
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1760The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1761
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1762 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1763 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1764 protector-all
1765 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1766 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1767 before it started waiting
1768 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1769 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1770 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1771 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1772 wrong type
1773 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1774 library linked with pthread
1775 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1776 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1777 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1778 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1779 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1780 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1781 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1782 when it shouldnt
1783 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1784 not
1785 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1786 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1787 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1788 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1789 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1790 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1791 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1792 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1793 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1794 termination
1795 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1796 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1797 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1798 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1799 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1800 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1801 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1802 causes a segmentation fault
1803 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1804 linking
1805 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1806 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1807 uninitialized GOT
1808 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1809 versions
1810 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1811 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1812 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1813 is always true.
1814 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1815 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1816 modes
1817 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1818 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1819 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1820 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1821 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1822 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1823 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1824 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1825 libpthread.a
1826 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1827 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1828 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1829 _res_hconf
1830 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1831 information.
1832 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1833 penalty
1834 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1835 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1836 cause transition penalty
1837 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1838 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1839 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1840 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1841 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1842 mcount.oS)
1843 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1844 Checking
1845 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1846 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1847 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1848 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1849 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1850 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1851 multi-arch
1852 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1853 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1854 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1855 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1856 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1857 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1858 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1859 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1860 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1861 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1862 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1863 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1864 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1865 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1866 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1867 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1868 glibc
1869 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1870 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1871 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1872 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1873 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1874 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1875 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1876 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1877 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1878 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1879 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1880 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1881 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1882 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1883 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1884 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1885 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1886 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1887 RES_USE_INET6
1888 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1889 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1890 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1891 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1892 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1893 wrong condition
1894 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1895 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1896 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1897 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1898 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1899 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1900 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1901 clang
1902 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1903 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1904 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1905 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1906 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1908Version 2.24
1909
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1910* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1911 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1912 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1913 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1914 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1915 architectures.
1916
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1917* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1918 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1919 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1920
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1921* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1922 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1923
b49ab5f4
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1924* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1925 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1926 instead of “union wait”.
1927
ced8f893
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1928* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1929 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1930 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1931 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1932 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1933 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1934 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1935
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1936* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1937 API.
1938
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1939* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1940 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1941 drop it.
6a54bcda 1942
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RS
1943* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1944 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1945 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1946 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1947 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1948 extensions.
1949
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1950Security related changes:
1951
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1952* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1953 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1954 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1955
4ab2ab03
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1956* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1957 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1958 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1959 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1960
5171f307
FW
1961* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1962 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1963 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1964
bc779a1a
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1965* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1966 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1967 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1968
fab38231
FW
1969* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1970 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1971 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1972 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1973
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1974The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1975
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1976 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1977 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1978 of MS-DOS.
1979 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1980 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1981 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1982 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1983 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1984 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1985 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1986 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1987 CLDR data
1988 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1989 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1990 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1991 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1992 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1993 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1994 romanisation
1995 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1996 and +/-
1997 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1998 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1999 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2000 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2001 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2002 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2003 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2004 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2005 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2006 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2007 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2008 all locales
2009 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2010 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2011 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2012 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2013 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2014 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2015 execute
2016 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2017 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2018 -Wsystem-headers
2019 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2020 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2021 Romanian locale data
2022 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2023 symbol
2024 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2025 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2026 language
2027 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2028 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2029 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2030 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2031 machine
2032 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2033 description
2034 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2035 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2036 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2037 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2038 when using RTLD_NEXT
2039 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2040 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2041 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2042 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2043 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2044 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2045 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2046 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2047 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2048 Excavator core
2049 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2050 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2051 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2052 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2053 double range
2054 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2055 part zero incorrect
2056 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2057 equality tests
2058 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2059 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2060 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2061 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2062 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2063 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2064 glibc-2.22
2065 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2066 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2067 'tst-numeric.c'
2068 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2069 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2070 low part
2071 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2072 result
2073 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2074 unaligned stack
2075 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2076 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2077 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2078 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2079 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2080 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2081 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2082 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2083 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2084 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2085 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2086 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2087 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2088 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2089 modes
2090 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2091 server addresses
2092 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2093 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2094 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2095 response to getaddrinfo
2096 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2097 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2098 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2099 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2100 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2101 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2102 sometimes incorrect
2103 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2104 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2105 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2106 record types
2107 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2108 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2109 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2110 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2111 (CVE-2016-3075)
2112 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2113 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2114 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2115 resolving symbols
2116 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2117 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2118 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2119 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2120 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2121 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2122 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2123 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2124 gethosts
2125 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2126 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2127 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2128 (CVE-2016-3706)
2129 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2130 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2131 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2132 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2133 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2134 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2135 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2136 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2137 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2138 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2139 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2140 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2141 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2142 executable
2143 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2144 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2145 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2146 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2147 XPG3
2148 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2149 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2150 (CVE-2016-4429)
2151 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2152 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2153 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2154 AS not supporting AVX512
2155 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2156 sNaN argument
2157 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2158 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2159 argument
2160 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2161 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2162 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2163 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2164 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2165 eax=0x80000001
2166 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2167 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2168 subnormals
2169 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2170 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2171 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2172 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2173 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2174 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2175 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2176 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2177 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2178 input
2179 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2180 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2181 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2182 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2183 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2184 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2185 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2186 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2187 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2188 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2189 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2190 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2191 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2192 double rounding
2193 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2194 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2195 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2196 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2197 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2198 (Only arm/linux)
2199 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2200 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2201 fallbacks
2202 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2203 "invalid" exceptions
2204 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2205 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2206 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2207 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2208 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2209 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2210 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2211 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2212 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2215
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2216* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2217 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2218 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2219 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2220 89, 16061, and 18568.
2221
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2222* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2223 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2224 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2225 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2226 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2227 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2228 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2229
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2230* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2231 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2232 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2233
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2234* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2235 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2236 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2237 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2238 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2239 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2240 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2241
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2242* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2243 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2244 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2245 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2246 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2247 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2248 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2249 Ericsson.)
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2251* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2252 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2253 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2254 independent of the GNU C Library.
2255
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2256* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2257 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2259* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2260 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2261 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2262 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2263 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2264 Linux kernel.
2265
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2266* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2267 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2269* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2270 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2271 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2272 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2273 defining their own copy.
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2275* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2276 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2277 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2279Security related changes:
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2281* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2282 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2283
2284* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2285 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2286 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2287 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2288 (CVE-2015-8777)
2289
2290* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2291 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2292
2293* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2294 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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2296* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2297 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2298 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2300* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2301 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2302 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2303 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2304 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2305 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2306 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2307 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2308 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2309 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2310 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2311 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2312 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2313
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2316 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2317 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2318 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2319 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2320 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2321 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2322 use `mkstemp'
2323 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2324 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2325 overflow/underflow errors
2326 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2327 overflow/underflow
2328 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2329 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2330 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2331 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2332 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2333 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2334 are not contiguous
2335 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2336 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2337 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2338 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2339 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2340 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2341 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2342 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2343 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2344 all exceptions
2345 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2346 arguments
2347 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2348 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2349 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2350 should include
2351 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2352 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2353 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2354 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2355 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2356 GNU/Linux
2357 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2358 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2359 arguments
2360 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2361 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2362 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2363 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2364 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2365 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2366 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2367 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2368 rounding results
2369 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2370 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2371 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2372 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2373 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2374 fails
2375 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2376 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2377 block boundary
2378 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2379 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2380 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2381 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2382 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2383 4.7?
2384 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2385 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2386 (related to lock elision)
2387 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2388 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2389 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2390 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2391 (CVE-2015-8779)
2392 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2393 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2394 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2395 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2396 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2397 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2398 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2399 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2400 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2401 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2402 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2403 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2404 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2405 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2406 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2407 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2408 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2409 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2410 contains a vector instruction exception.
2411 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2412 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2413 locales
2414 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2415 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2416 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2417 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2418 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2419 missing break ?
2420 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2421 32bit processes
2422 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2423 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2424 infinity
2425 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2426 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2427 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2428 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2429 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2430 be forced unloaded
2431 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2432 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2433 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2434 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2435 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2436 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2437 statically too large
2438 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2439 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2440 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2441 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2442 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2443 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2444 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2445 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2446 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2447 FUTEX_SHARED
2448 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2449 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2450 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2451 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2452 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2453 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2454 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2455 opendir()
2456 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2457 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2458 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2459 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2460 signgam
2461 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2462 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2463 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2464 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2465 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2466 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2467 dependencies
2468 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2469 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2470 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2471 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2472 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2473 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2474 (CVE-2015-8776)
2475 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2476 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2477 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2478 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2479 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2480 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2481 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2482 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2483 contention
2484 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2485 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2486 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2487 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2488 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2489 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2490 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2491 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2492 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2493 rounding modes
2494 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2495 ILP32
2496 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2497 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2498 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2499 threshold
2500 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2501 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2502 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2503 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2504 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2505 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2506 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2507 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2508 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2509 pthread_setaffinity_np
2510 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2511 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2512 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2513 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2514 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2515 prelink
2516 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2517 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2518 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2519 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2520 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2521 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2522 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2523 bits/mathcalls.h
2524 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2525 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2526 for C99-based standards
2527 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2528 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2529 math-only
2530 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2531 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2532 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2533 disabled
2534 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2535 "inexact" exceptions
2536 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2537 arguments
2538 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2539 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2540 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2541 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2542 rules
2543 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2544 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2545 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2546 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2547 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2548 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2549 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2550 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2551 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2552 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2553 from 32bit
2554 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2555 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2556 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2557 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2558 subnormals
2559 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2560 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2561 error on 32-bit architectures
2562 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2563 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2564 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2565 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2566 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2567 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2568 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2569 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2570 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2571 -Os
2572 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2573 CPU's.
2574 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2575 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2576 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2577 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2578 architectures
2579 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2582
2583* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2586 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2587 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2588 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2589 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2590 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2591 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2592 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2593 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2594 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2595 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2596 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2597 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2598 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2599 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2600 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2601 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2602 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
2603 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2604 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2605
f7fba805
SL
2606* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2607 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2608
2959eda9
AS
2609* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2610 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2611 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2612 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2613 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2614 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2615
42261ad7
FW
2616* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2617 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2618 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2619 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2620 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2621
afcd9480
AM
2622* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2623 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2624 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2625
4a4839c9
AO
2626* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2627 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2628 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2629 17998.
2630
b13b96ca
AS
2631* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2632 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2633 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2634
2635* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2636 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2637 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2638 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2639 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2640 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2641 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2642 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2643
2644* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2645 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2646 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2647 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2648
2649* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2650 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2651 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2652
2653* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2654 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2655
2656* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2657 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2658 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2659
a03ba363 2660 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2661 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2662 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2663\f
58b930ae
SP
2664Version 2.21
2665
2666* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2667
042e1521 2668 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2669 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2670 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2671 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2672 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2673 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2674 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2675 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2676 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2677 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2678 17892.
2679
46d54873
FW
2680* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2681 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2682 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2683 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2684 intended.
042e1521
CD
2685
2686* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2687 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2688 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2689 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2690 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2691 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2692
522e6ee3
CLT
2693* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2694
d3b00f46
AZ
2695* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2696 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2697 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2698
8d2c0a59
AZ
2699* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2700 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2701 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2702 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2703 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2704 effects being visible outside transactions.
2705
dc400d7b
RE
2706* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2707 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2708
0f9dfe04
L
2709* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2710
a39208bd
CD
2711* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2712 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2713 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2714 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2715 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2716
a5357b7c
JL
2717* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2718 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2719
e54db0ea
AM
2720* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2721 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2722 format.
11e3417a 2723
4863355a
JM
2724* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2725 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2726 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2727
a4ecc9eb
JM
2728* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2729 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2730
0d560bbf 2731* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2732
2733* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2734 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2735 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2736 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2737
2738* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2739 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2740
2741* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2742 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2743 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2744 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2745 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2746 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2747 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2748 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2749 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2750 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2751 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2752 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2753 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2754
2755 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2756 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2757 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2758 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2759 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2760\f
d5b396c1
AM
2761Version 2.20
2762
2763* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2764
6a9350c8
JM
2765 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2766 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2767 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2768 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2769 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2770 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2771 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2772 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2773 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2774 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2775 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2776 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2777 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2778 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2779 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2780
95ee7fb1
SL
2781* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2782 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2783 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2784 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2785 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2786 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2787 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2788 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2789 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2790 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2791
0961f7e1
JL
2792* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2793 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2794 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2795 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2796 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2797
f940b965
RE
2798* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2799
d0f5b3f8
JM
2800* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2801 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2802
d6fe5e58
JM
2803* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2804 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2805 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2806 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2807 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2808 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2809
464263cc
JM
2810* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2811 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2812
2813* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2814 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2815 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2816 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2817 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2818 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2819 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2820
2821* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2822
2823* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2824 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2825 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2826 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2827 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2828 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2829 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2830
2831* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2832 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2833 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2834 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2835 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2836
2837* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2838 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2839 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2840
2841* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2842 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2843 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2844 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2845
2846* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2847 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2848 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2849 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2850 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2851 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2852 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2853 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2854
2855* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2856 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2857 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2858 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2859 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2860 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2861 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2862 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2863 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2864
2865* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2866 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2867 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2868 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2869 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2870 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2871
2872* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2873 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2874 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2875 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2876\f
2877Version 2.19
2878
2879* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2880
fd2f9486
JM
2881 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2882 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2883 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2884 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2885 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2886 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2887 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2888 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2889 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2890 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2891 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2892 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2893 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2894 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2895 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2896 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2897 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2898 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2899
11520a57
CD
2900* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2901 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2902
2fe16229
CD
2903* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2904 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2905 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2906 extension which uses __block.
2907
303e567a
SP
2908* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2909 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2910 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2911 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2912 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2913
141f3a77
SP
2914* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2915 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2916 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2917 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2918 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2919
2920* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2921 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2922 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2923 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2924 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2925
2926* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2927 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2928 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2929
ba0d798c
WN
2930* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2931 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2932 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2933 #15856, #15857).
2934
7cbcdb36
SP
2935* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2936 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2937
82bab04b 2938* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2939 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2940
c5f840fd
MB
2941* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2942
3e181dda
CD
2943* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2944 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2945
3e181dda 2946* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2947
8a05c252
CL
2948* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2949
6055173a
JM
2950* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2951 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2952 for which the C library was built.
2953
b125d3e5
JM
2954* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2955 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2956 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2957 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2958 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2959 in the following circumstances:
2960
2961 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2962
2963 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2964 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2965
d4f66d37
JM
2966* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2967 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2968
3e181dda
CD
2969* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2970 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2971
ffb89e53
AO
2972* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2973
5d29ccce
SP
2974* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2975 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2976
8b7d57cd 2977* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2978
2979* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2980
fd712ef3 2981* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2982
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2983* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2984 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2985 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2986 disable some of those declarations.
2987
7011c262 2988* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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JM
2989 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2990 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
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2991
2992* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2993 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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2994
2995* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2996 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2997 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2998 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2999 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3000 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3001 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3002 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3003 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3004 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3005 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3006 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3007 require recompilation.
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3009Version 2.18
3010
3011* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3012
17db6e8d 3013 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3014 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3015 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3016 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3017 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3018 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3019 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3020 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3021 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3022 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3023 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3024 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3025 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3026 15755, 15759.
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3027
3028* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3029 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3030 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3031 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3032 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3033 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3034
5b535ac4
AS
3035* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3036 #15078).
3037
1cef1b19
AS
3038* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3039 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3040
55e4107b
SP
3041* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3042 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3043 destructor calls to glibc.
3044
e5c74c63
SP
3045* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3046 output.
3047
3048* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3049 non-x86 architectures.
3050
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3051* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3052
3053* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3054
3055* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3056 Richard Henderson.
3057
3058* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3059
3060* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3061 Richard Henderson.
3062
3063* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3064 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3065
8cfdb7e0
SP
3066* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3067
57267616
TS
3068* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3069 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3070
c204ab28
SP
3071* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3072 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3073
0748546f
PE
3074* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3075 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3076 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3077
61dd6208
SP
3078* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3079 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3080 attributes of a process.
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3081
3082* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3083 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3084 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3085 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3086 mutexes.
be063fa4
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3087
3088* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3089 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3090
3091* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3092\f
3093Version 2.17
3094
3095* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3096
80ceeaee 3097 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3098 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3099 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3100 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3101 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3102 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3103 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3104 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3105 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3106 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3107 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3108 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3109 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3110 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3111 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3112
95b4f1b6
SE
3113* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3114
14bc93a9
JL
3115* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3116 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3117
b54eb3cb
JM
3118* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3119 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3120
7e2bd01f
MS
3121* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3122
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3123* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3124 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3125 zEnterprise z196.
3126 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3127
84b3fd84
FW
3128* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3129 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3130 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3131
815e6fa3
GB
3132* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3133 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3134
400726de
MK
3135* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3136 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3137
7aab07e4 3138* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3139 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3140
15d0da8c
WS
3141* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3142 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3143
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3144* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3145 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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3146 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3147 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3148
b54eb3cb
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3149* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3150 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3151
85429b1a 3152* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3153 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
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3154 default.
3155
b54eb3cb
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3156* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3157 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3158 information in --help and --version output.
3159
050af9c4
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3160* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3161 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3162 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3163
89a3ad0b
AO
3164* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3165 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3166 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3167 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3168 when the mode is enabled.
3169
6e6249d0
RM
3170* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3171 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3172 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3173 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3174 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3175 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3176 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3177
d9286582
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3178* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3179 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3180\f
3181Version 2.16
3182
3183* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3184
a8133e19
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3185 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3186 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3187 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3188 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3189 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3190 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3191 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3192 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3193 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3194 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3195 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3196 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3197 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3198 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3199 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3200 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3201 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3202 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3203 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3204 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3205 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3206 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3207 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3208
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3209* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3210 configuring glibc with:
3211 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3212 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3213 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3214
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3215* ISO C11 support:
3216
3217 + define static_assert
3218
3219 + do not declare gets
3220
3221 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3222
3223 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3224 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3225 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3226 implementation.
8d44e150 3227
74033a25 3228 + timespec_get added
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3229
3230 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3231
ac097f5c
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3232 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3233
16dd419d
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3234 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3235
9dc4e1fb 3236* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3237
3238* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3239
3240* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3241 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3242
3243* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3244 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3245
3246* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3247 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3248 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3249 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3250 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3251
21708942 3252* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3253 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3254 before 2.6.
83678f76 3255
edb00e4d
RH
3256* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3257 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3258 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3259
83678f76 3260* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3261
3262* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3263 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3264 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3265 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3266 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3267
3268* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3269
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3270* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3271 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
3272
3273* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3274
3275* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3276 without a previously built glibc.
3277
3278* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3279 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3280
3281* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3282 now supported for ARM processors.
3283
3284* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3285 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3286 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3287
3288* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3289
3290* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3291 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3292 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3293 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3294
3295* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3296 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3297 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3298 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3299
3300* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3301 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3302 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3303 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3304 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3305
3306* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3307 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3308 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3309 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3310\f
e80fab37 3311Version 2.15
11988f8f 3312
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3313* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3314
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3315 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3316 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3317 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3318 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3319 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3320 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3321 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3322
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3323* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3324 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3325
3326* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3327 and support for initgroups lookups.
3328 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3329
3330* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3331 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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3332
3333* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3334 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3335
fc2ee42a
LD
3336* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3337 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3338 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3339
d42964a0 3340* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3341 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3342
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3343* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3344 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
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3345 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3346
c55fbd1e
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3347* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3348 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3349
3350* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3351 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3352
3353* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3354 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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3355
3356* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3357 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3358
3359* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3360 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3361
3362* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3363 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3364
3365* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3366
3367* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3369
f0b264f1
AZ
3370* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3371 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3372
6b64057b 3373* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3374\f
dded88cd 3375Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3376
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3377* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3378
553149f6 3379 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3380 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3381 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3382 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3383 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3384 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3385 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3386 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3387 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3388 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3389
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3390* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3391 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3392 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3393 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3394
3395 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3396 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3397 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3398 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3399
c6489db3 3400* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3401 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3402
72d1dddb 3403* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3404 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3406* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3408* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3409 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3411* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3412 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3413 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3414 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3417
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3419
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3420 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3421 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3422 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3423 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3424 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3425
10b3bedc 3426* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3427
ac2b484c 3428* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3430* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3431 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3432 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3435
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3437
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3438 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3439 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3440 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3441 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3442 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3443 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3444 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3445 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3447* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3448
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3449* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3450
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3451* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3452
3453* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3454 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3455 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3456
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3458 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3459 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3460 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3461 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3462
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3466
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3468
3469 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3470 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3471 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3472 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3473 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3474 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3475
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3476* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3477 mkostemps64
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3478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3479
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3481 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3482
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3483* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3484 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3485
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3486* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3487
0122f28e 3488* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 3489 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3490 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3492
9d36a6c4 3493 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3495
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3496* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3497 strstr, strcasestr.
3498 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3499
3500* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3501 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3502
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3503* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3504 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3505
3506* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3508
3509* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3510 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3511 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3512 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3513 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3514 necessity is every process again.
3515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3516
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3517* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3518 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3519
3520* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3521 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3522
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3523* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3524 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3526
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3530
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3531* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3532
3533 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3534 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3535 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3536 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3537 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3538
bb066545 3539* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3541
425ce2ed 3542* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3543 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3544
1fdd89a7 3545* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3546 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3548* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3549 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3550
1f04d005 3551* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3552 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3554* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3555 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3556
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3557* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3558 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3559
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3560* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3561 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3562
3563* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3564 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3565 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3566
735be400 3567* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3568
84aa52d7 3569* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3570 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3571
3572* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3573 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3575
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3576* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3577 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3578
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3579* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3580 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3581 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3582 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3583 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3584 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3586Version 2.9
3587
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3588* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3589
3590 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3591 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3592 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3593 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3594 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3595
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3597 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3598
3599* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3600 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3602* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3605* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3606 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3608
3609* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3610 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 3612* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3613
3614* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3615 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3617* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3618 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3619 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3621
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3622* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3623 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3625* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3626 Sinhala)
48b22986 3627 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3629* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3631Version 2.8
3632
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3633* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3634
3635 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3636 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3637 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3638 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3639 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3640 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3641 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3642
e038616f 3643* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3644
77751669 3645* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3647* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3648 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3649
3650* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3651
3652* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3653 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3654
3655* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3657
3658* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3659 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3660 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3661
3662* Faster memset for x86-64.
3663 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3664
3665* Faster memcpy on x86.
3666 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3667
3668* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3669 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3671* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3672 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3674Version 2.7
3675
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3676* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3677
3678 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3679 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3680 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3681 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3682 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3683
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3684* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3685 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3686
3687* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3688
3689* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3690 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3691 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3692
3693* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3694 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3695
28919a77 3696* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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3697 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3698
3699* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3700
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3701* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3703
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3704* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3705 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3706
3707* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3708 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3709
3710* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3711
3712* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3715* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3716 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3717 yo_NG.
3718
3719+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3720 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3725
3726 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3727 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3728 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3729 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3730 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3731 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3732 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3733 4702, 4858
3734
bce20b9a 3735* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3738
b21fa963 3739* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3742
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3744
3745 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3746 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3747 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3748 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3749 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3750 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3751 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3752 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3753 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3754
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3756 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3757 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3759* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3760 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3761
871b9158 3762* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3764* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3766* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3767 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3768 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3770 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3771
07bfff20 3772* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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3773 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3774 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3775 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3776
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3777* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3778 Ulrich Drepper.
3779
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3780* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3781
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3782* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3783 Ulrich Drepper.
3784
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3785* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3786
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3787* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3788 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3790Version 2.4
3791
3792* More overflow detection functions.
3793
3794* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3795 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3797 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3798 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3799 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3800 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3801 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3802 by Masahide Washizawa.
3803
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3804* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3805 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3807* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3808 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3809 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3810 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3812* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3813 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3814
3815* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3816
3817* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3818 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3819 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3820
3821* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3822 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3823
3824* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3825 for compatibility with some other systems.
3826
3827* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3829Version 2.3.6
3830
3831* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3832
3833 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3834 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3835 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3836 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3837 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3838 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3839
3840 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3841
3842* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3843
3844* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3846Version 2.3.5
3847
3848* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3849
3850 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3851 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3852 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3853 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3854
3855 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3857Version 2.3.4
3858
3859* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3861
3862* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3863 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3865
3866* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3867 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3868
0325dd20 3869* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3870 efficiently.
3871 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3872
3873* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3874 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3875 handling data.
3876
3877* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3878 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3879 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3880
3881* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3882 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3883
3884* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3885 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3886 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3887 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3888
3889* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3890 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3891 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3892 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3893
3894* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3895 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3896 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3897 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3898 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3900Version 2.3.3
3901
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3902* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3903 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3904
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3905* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3906 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3907
69be6aaf 3908* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3909 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3910
3911* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3914* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3915 by Roland McGrath.
3916
c5af724c 3917* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3918 and Ulrich Drepper.
3919
3920* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3921 RFC 3484.
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3923Version 2.3.2
3924
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3925* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3926 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3927 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3928 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3929 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3930 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3931 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3932 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3933 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3934
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3935* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3936 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3937 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3938
3939* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3940
3941* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3942 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3944* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3945 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3946
52a16e58 3947* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3949* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3950 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3951
3952* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3953 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3954 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3955 of weak definition in ld.so.
3956
3957* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3958 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3959
3960* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3961 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3965* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3966 charsets.
3967
3968* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3969 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3970
bb0ec5bd 3971* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3972 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3973
3974* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3975 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3976
bb0ec5bd 3977* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3978 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3979 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3980
3981* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3982 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3983
bb0ec5bd 3984* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3985 implementation of regex.
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3986
3987* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3988 Unicode 3.2.
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3990* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3991 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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3993* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3994 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3995 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3996
3997* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3998 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3999
4000* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4001 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4002 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4003
4004* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4005 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4006
4007* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4008 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4009 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4010
4011* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4013Version 2.2.6
4014
4015* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4016 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4017
4018* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4019 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4021Version 2.2.5
4022
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4023* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4024 128-bit long double format.
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4026* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4027 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4028
ad2e4f18 4029* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4031* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4032
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4033* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4034 as well.
4035
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4036* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4037 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4038
4039* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4041Version 2.2.4
4042
2995f70e 4043* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4044 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4045
4046* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4047 support Unicode 3.1.
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4048
4049* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4050 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4051
69d5f925 4052* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4053
69d5f925 4054* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4055 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4056 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4057
4058* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4059 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4060
4061* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4062 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4063
4064* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4066Version 2.2.3
4067
1746f2b0 4068* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4069 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4070 in float, double, and long double format.
4071
f128331c 4072* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4073 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4074 128-bit long double format.
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4076* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4077 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4078 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4079 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4080
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4081* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4082 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4083 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4084
4085* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4086 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4087
4088* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4089 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4090
4091* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4092 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4093 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4094
4095* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4096 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4097
4098* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4099 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4100
4101* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4103Version 2.2.2
4104
464d97ec 4105* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4106 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4107 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4108 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4109 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4110 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4111 other headers.
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4112
4113* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4114 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4115
4116* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4117 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4118 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4119 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4120
4121* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4122 locales. While
4123
4124 locale -a
4125
4126 only lists the names of the supported locales
4127
4128 locale -a --verbose
4129
4130 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4131 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4133Version 2.2.1
4134
4135* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4136 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4137 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4138 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4139 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4140
4141 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4142
4143 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4144
4145 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4146
4147* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4148 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4149 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4150
4151* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4152 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4153
4154* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4155 changed from the default "C" locale.
4156
4157* The usual bug fixes.
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4159Version 2.2
4160
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4161* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4162 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4163 is in progress.
4164
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4165* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4166
793bd4d9 4167* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4169 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4170 obviously requires a database library being available.
4171
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4172* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4173
abbffdf9 4174* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4176* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4177 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4178
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4179* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4180
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4181* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4182 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4183 and Mark Kettenis.
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4184
4185 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4186 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4187 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4188
a00c3ca9 4189 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4190 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4191
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4192* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4193 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4194 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4195
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4196* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4197 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4198 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4199 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4200
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4201 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4202 structures for the wide character tables.
4203
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4204* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4205
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4206* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4207
4208* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4209
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4210* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4211 and Yutaka Niibe.
4212
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4213* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4214
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4215* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4216
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4217* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4218
4219* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4220
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4221* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4222
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4223* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4224 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4225 implemented for Linux.
4226
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4227* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4228 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4229 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4230 versions.
4231
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4232* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4233 Masahide Washizawa.
4234
8f3f1e09 4235* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4237Version 2.1.3
4238
4239* bug fixes
4240
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4242Version 2.1.2
4243
4244* bug fixes
4245
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4247Version 2.1.1
4248
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4249* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4250
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4251* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4252
407d26b7 4253* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4254
4255* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4256
407d26b7 4257* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4258
407d26b7 4259* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4260
4261* Update timezone data files.
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4263* lots of charmaps corrections
4264
4265* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4266
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4269
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4270* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4271 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4272 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4273 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4274 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4275 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4276
c84142e8 4277* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4278 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4279
1fb05e3d 4280* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4281 symbol level.
4282
4283* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4284 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4285
cbdee279 4286* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4287
4288* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4289 numbers.
377a515b 4290
cbdee279 4291* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4292
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4293* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4294 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4295
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4296* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4297 library.
4298
e61abf83 4299* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4300 functions from ISO C 9X.
4301
4302* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4303 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4304
a5a0310d 4305* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4307* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4308
4309* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4310
440d13e2 4311* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4313* Optimized string functions have been added.
4314
4315* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4317* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4320 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4321
4322 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4323 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4324
0dee6738 4325 user system wall
48244d09 4326
0dee6738 4327 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4328
0dee6738 4329 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4330
0dee6738 4331 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4333 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4334
4335 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4336
4337 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4339 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4340 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4341 horribly slow.
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4343 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4344 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4346* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4348* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4349
4350* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4351 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4352
4353* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4355* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4356 Bambrough.
4357
4358* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4359 latest draft standards.
4360
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4362
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4364~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4365addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4366alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4367argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4368argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4369argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4370argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4371argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4372argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4373argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4374argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4375argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4376argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4377authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4378authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4379authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4380backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4381backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4382backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4383cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4384cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4385cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4386cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4387cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4388cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4389capget NEW: kernel
4390capset NEW: kernel
4391carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4392cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4393cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4394casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4395casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4396casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4397casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4398casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4399casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4400catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4401catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4402catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4403catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4404catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4405catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4407ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4408ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4409ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4410ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4411ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4412ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4413cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4414cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4415cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4416cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4417cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4418cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4419clearerr_locked REMOVED
4420clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4421clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4422clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4423clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4424clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4425clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4426clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4427conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4428conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4429conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4430cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4431cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4432cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4433cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4434cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4435cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4436creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4437crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4438creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4439creat64 NEW: LFS
4440csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4441csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4442csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4443csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4444csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4445csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4446csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4447csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4448csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4449ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4450ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4451ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4452ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4453ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4454ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4455des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4456ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4457endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4458exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4459exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4460exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4461exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4462exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4463exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4464fattach NEW: STREAMS
4465fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4466fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4467fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4468fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4469feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4470fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4471fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4472fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4473feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4474feof_locked REMOVED
4475feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4476ferror_locked REMOVED
4477fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4478fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4479fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4480fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4481feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4482fflush_locked REMOVED
4483ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4484ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4485fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4486fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4487fileno_locked REMOVED
4488fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4489fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4490fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4491fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4492fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4493fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4494fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4495fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4496fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4497fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4498fopen64 NEW: LFS
4499fputc_locked REMOVED
4500fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4501fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4502freopen64 NEW: LFS
4503fseeko NEW: Unix98
4504fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4505fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4506fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4507fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4508ftello NEW: Unix98
4509ftello64 NEW: LFS
4510ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4511ftw64 NEW: LFS
4512fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4513gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4514gamma_r REMOVED
4515gammaf_r REMOVED
4516gammal_r REMOVED
4517getchar_locked REMOVED
4518getdate NEW: Unix98
4519getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4520getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4521getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4522getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4523getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4524getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4525getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4526getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4527getutxent NEW: Unix98
4528getutxid NEW: Unix98
4529getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4530glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4531globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4532gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4533gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4534grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4535host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4536iconv NEW: iconv
4537iconv_close NEW: iconv
4538iconv_open NEW: iconv
4539if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4540if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4541if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4542if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4543in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4544in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4545inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4546isastream NEW: STREAMS
4547iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4548key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4549key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4550key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4551key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4552key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4553key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4554key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4555key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4556key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4557llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4558llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4559llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4560llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4561llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4562llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4563log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4564log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4565log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4566lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4567lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4568lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4569lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4570lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4571lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4572lseek64 NEW: LFS
4573makecontext NEW: Unix98
4574mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4575mmap64 NEW: LFS
4576moncontrol REMOVED
4577modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4578nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4579nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4580nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4581nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4582nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4583nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4584netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4585netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4586nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4587nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4588nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4589nftw NEW: Unix98
4590nftw64 NEW: LFS
4591open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4592passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4593pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4594pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4595pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4596pread NEW: Unix98
4597pread64 NEW: LFS
4598printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4599printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4600profil_counter REMOVED
4601pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4602pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4603ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4604ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4605putc_locked REMOVED
4606putchar_locked REMOVED
4607putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4608putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4609putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4610pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4611pwrite NEW: Unix98
4612pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4613readdir64 NEW: LFS
4614readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4615remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4616remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4617remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4618round NEW: ISO C 9x
4619roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4620roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4621rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4622scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4623scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4624scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4625scandir64 NEW: LFS
4626sendfile NEW: kernel
4627setcontext NEW: Unix98
4628setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4629setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4630sighold NEW: Unix98
4631sigignore NEW: Unix98
4632sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4633sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4634sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4635sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4636sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4637sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4638sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4639sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4640statfs64 NEW: LFS
4641statvfs NEW: Unix98
4642statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4643strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4644strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4645strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4646strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4647svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4648svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4649svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4650swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4651tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4652tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4653tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4654tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4655tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4656tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4657trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4658truncate64 NEW: LFS
4659truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4660truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4661umount2 NEW: kernel
4662unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4663updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4664user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4665utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4666versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4667versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4668waitid NEW: Unix98
4669wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4670wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4671wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4672wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4673wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4674wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4675wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4676wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4677wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4678wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4679write_profiling REMOVED
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4680xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4681xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4682xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4683xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4684xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4685xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4686xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4687xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4688xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4689xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4690xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4691xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4692xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4693xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4694xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4695~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4697Version 2.0.6
4698
4699* more bug fixes
4700
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4701\f
4702Version 2.0.5
4703
4704* more bug fixes
4705
4706* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4707
4708* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4709
4710* rewrite of cbrt function
4711
4712* update of timezone data
4713\f
4714Version 2.0.4
4715
4716* more bug fixes
4717\f
4718Version 2.0.3
4719
4720* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4721\f
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4722Version 2.0.2
4723
4724* more bug fixes
4725
4726* add atoll function
4727
4728* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4730* fix math functions
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4731\f
4732Version 2.0.1
4733
4734* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4735
4736* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4737
4738* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4739 the ELF dynamic loader.
4740
4741* support for parallel builds is improved
4742\f
40a4b79f 4743Version 2.0
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4745* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4746 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4747 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4748
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4749* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4750 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4751 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4752 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4753 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4754 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4755 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4756 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4757 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4758 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4759 files in the ELF format.
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4760
4761* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4762 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4763
4764* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4765 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4766 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4767 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4768 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4769 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4770 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4771 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4772 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4773 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4774 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4776* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4777 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4778 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4779 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4780 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4781
f7eac6eb 4782* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4783 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4784 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4785 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4786 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4787
4788* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4790* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4791 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4792 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4793 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4794 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4795 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4796 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4797 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4798 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4799
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4800* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4801 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4802 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4803
4804* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4805 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4806 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4807
4808* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4809 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4810 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4811 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4812
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4813* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4814 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4815 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4816
4817* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4818 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4819 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4820
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4821* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4822 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4823
f7eac6eb 4824* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4825 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4826 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4827 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4828
4829* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4830 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4831 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4832
71733723 4833* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4834 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4835 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4836 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4837 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4838 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4839 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4840 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4841
4842* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4843 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4844 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4845 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4846 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4847 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4848 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4849
4850* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4851 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4852 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4853 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4854 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4855 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4856
4857* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4858 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4859
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4860* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4861 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4862 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4864* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4865
4866* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4867 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4868 their use is discouraged.
4869
4870* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4871 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4873* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4874 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4875
4876* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4877 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4878
4879* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4880 see <dirent.h>.
4881
4882* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4883 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4884 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4885 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4886 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4887
4888* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4889 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4890 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4891 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4892
4893* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4894 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4895
4896* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4897 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4898 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4899 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4900 number generator.
4901
4902* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4903 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4904
4905* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4906 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4907
71733723 4908* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4909 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4911 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4913* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4914
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4916 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4917 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4918
4919* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4920 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4922* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4923 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4924 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4925 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4926
4927* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4928 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4929 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4930 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4931 programs already written to use it.)
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4932
4933* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4934 constants.
4935
4936* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4937 with 4.4 BSD.
4938
4939* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4940 a given effective group ID.
4941
4942* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4943 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4944 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4945 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4946
4947* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4948 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4949 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4950 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4951 doing the same thing.
4952
4953* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4954 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4955
4956* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4957 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4958
4959* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4960
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4961* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4962 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4963 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4964 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4965 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4966
4967* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4968 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4970* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4971 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4972 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4973 function.
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4974
4975* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4976
4977* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4978 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4979 strings.
4980
4981* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4982 and writing the utmp file.
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4984* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4985 Thorsten Kukuk.
4986
4987* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4988 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4989 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4990
4991* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4992 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4993
4994* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4995 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4996 specification.
4997
4998* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4999 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5000 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5001 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5002
5003* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5004 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5005 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5006
5007* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5008 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5009 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5010 expression matcher.
5011
5012* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5013 functionality.
5014
5015* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5016 by Ulrich Drepper.
5017
5018* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5019
5020* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5021 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5022 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5023\f
5024Version 1.09
5025
5026* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5027
5028* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5029 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5030
5031* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5032 want to put themselves in the background.
5033
5034* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5035 run without an operating system.
5036
5037* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5038 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5039
5040* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5041 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5042
5043* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5044
5045* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5046 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5047 have YP (aka NIS).
5048
5049* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5050 conventions.
5051
5052* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5053 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5054\f
5055Version 1.08
5056
5057* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5058 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5059 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5060
5061* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5062 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5063
5064* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5065 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5066
5067* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5068
5069* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5070
5071* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5072 compatibility.
5073
5074* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5075 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5076 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5077
5078* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5079
5080* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5081 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5082 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5083
5084* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5085 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5086 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5087 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5088 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5089 on a block).
5090
5091* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5092 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5093 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5094 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5095 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5096 cross-compiler.
5097
5098* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5099 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5100\f
5101Version 1.07
5102
5103* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5104 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5105
5106* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5107 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5108 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5109
5110* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5111 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5112 address of the last character written.
5113
5114* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5115 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5116
5117* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5118 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5119
5120* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5121 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5122 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5123 you dereference this pointer.
5124
5125* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5126 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5127
5128* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5129 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5130 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5131 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5132
5133* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5134 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5135 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5136 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5137\f
5138Version 1.06
5139
5140* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5141 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5142 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5143 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5144 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5145
5146* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5147
5148* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5149
5150* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5151 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5152
5153* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5154 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5155
5156* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5157 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5158
5159* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5160 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5161 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5162 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5163 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5164
5165* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5166 to the error code in `errno'.
5167
5168* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5169 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5170 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5171 malloc'd string.
5172
5173* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5174 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5175 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5176
5177* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5178 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5180Version 1.05
5181
5182* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5183 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5184 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5185
5186* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5187 characters.
5188
5189* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5190 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5191
5192* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5193\f
5194Version 1.04
5195
5196* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5197 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5198 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5199 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5200
5201* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5202 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5203 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5204
5205* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5206 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5207
5208* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5209 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5210 made itself into a shared library.
5211
5212* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5213 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5214
5215* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5216 with limited length.
5217
5218* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5219
5220* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5221
5222* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5223
5224* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5225 function for traversing a directory tree.
5226
5227* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5228 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5229 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5230 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5231
5232* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5233 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5234
5235* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5236
5237* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5238 things to your strings.
5239
5240* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5241
5242* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5243 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5244 supporting those systems.
5245
5246* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5247 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5248 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5249 configuration files.
5250
5251* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5252 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5253
5254* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5255 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5256 in <strings.h>.)
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5257
5258* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5259 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5260 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5261 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5262 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5263 required storage is not available.
5264
5265* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5266 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5267
5268* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5269 latest files released from Berkeley.
5270\f
5271----------------------------------------------------------------------
5272Copyright information:
5273
c9123888 5274Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5275
5276 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5277 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5278 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5279 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5280
5281 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5282 of this document, or of portions of it,
5283 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5284 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5285\f
5286Local variables:
5287version-control: never
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