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posix: Add _Fork [BZ #4737]
authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:26:31 +0000 (09:26 -0300)
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:55:56 +0000 (15:55 -0300)
commitc32c868ab8b2b95724550d0130782c0767fc3bab
tree53b43a7f006fe8f549affb6b6d4d24b808a75465
parentdd45734e322a03287d34d8af9b7da7b35cfddb8e
posix: Add _Fork [BZ #4737]

Austin Group issue 62 [1] dropped the async-signal-safe requirement
for fork and provided a async-signal-safe _Fork replacement that
does not run the atfork handlers.  It will be included in the next
POSIX standard.

It allow to close a long standing issue to make fork AS-safe (BZ#4737).
As indicated on the bug, besides the internal lock for the atfork
handlers itself; there is no guarantee that the handlers itself will
not introduce more AS-safe issues.

The idea is synchronize fork with the required internal locks to allow
children in multithread processes to use mostly of standard function
(even though POSIX states only AS-safe function should be used).  On
signal handles, _Fork should be used intead and only AS-safe functions
should be used.

For testing, the new tst-_Fork only check basic usage.  I also added
a new tst-mallocfork3 which uses the same strategy to check for
deadlock of tst-mallocfork2 but using threads instead of subprocesses
(and it does deadlock if it replaces _Fork with fork).

[1] https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=62
42 files changed:
NEWS
malloc/Makefile
malloc/tst-mallocfork3.c [new file with mode: 0644]
manual/process.texi
posix/Makefile
posix/Versions
posix/fork.c
posix/tst-_Fork.c [new file with mode: 0644]
posix/unistd.h
sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arc/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/be/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/le/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/csky/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/libc.abilist
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sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/m680x0/libc.abilist
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