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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
f7a9f785 2Copyright (C) 1992-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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d9814526 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.25
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10* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
11 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
12 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
13 Library.
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15Security related changes:
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19The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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21 [The release manager will add the list generated by
22 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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24Version 2.24
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26* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
27 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
28 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
29 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
30 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
31 architectures.
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33* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
34 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
35 been included in previous releases.
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37* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
38 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
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40* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
41 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
42 instead of “union wait”.
43
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44* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
45 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
46 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
47 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
48 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
49 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
50 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
51
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52* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
53 API.
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55* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
56 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
57 drop it.
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59* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
60 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
61 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
62 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
63 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
64 extensions.
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68* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
69 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
70 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
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72* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
73 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
74 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
75 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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77* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
78 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
79 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
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81* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
82 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
83 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
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85* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
86 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
87 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
88 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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90The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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92 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
93 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
94 of MS-DOS.
95 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
96 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
97 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
98 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
99 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
100 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
101 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
102 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
103 CLDR data
104 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
105 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
106 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
107 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
108 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
109 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
110 romanisation
111 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
112 and +/-
113 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
114 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
115 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
116 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
117 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
118 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
119 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
120 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
121 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
122 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
123 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
124 all locales
125 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
126 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
127 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
128 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
129 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
130 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
131 execute
132 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
133 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
134 -Wsystem-headers
135 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
136 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
137 Romanian locale data
138 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
139 symbol
140 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
141 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
142 language
143 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
144 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
145 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
146 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
147 machine
148 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
149 description
150 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
151 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
152 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
153 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
154 when using RTLD_NEXT
155 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
156 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
157 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
158 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
159 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
160 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
161 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
162 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
163 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
164 Excavator core
165 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
166 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
167 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
168 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
169 double range
170 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
171 part zero incorrect
172 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
173 equality tests
174 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
175 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
176 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
177 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
178 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
179 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
180 glibc-2.22
181 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
182 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
183 'tst-numeric.c'
184 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
185 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
186 low part
187 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
188 result
189 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
190 unaligned stack
191 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
192 pointers and lengths in error-case.
193 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
194 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
195 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
196 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
197 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
198 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
199 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
200 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
201 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
202 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
203 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
204 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
205 modes
206 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
207 server addresses
208 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
209 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
210 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
211 response to getaddrinfo
212 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
213 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
214 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
215 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
216 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
217 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
218 sometimes incorrect
219 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
220 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
221 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
222 record types
223 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
224 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
225 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
226 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
227 (CVE-2016-3075)
228 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
229 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
230 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
231 resolving symbols
232 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
233 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
234 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
235 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
236 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
237 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
238 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
239 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
240 gethosts
241 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
242 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
243 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
244 (CVE-2016-3706)
245 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
246 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
247 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
248 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
249 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
250 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
251 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
252 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
253 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
254 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
255 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
256 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
257 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
258 executable
259 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
260 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
261 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
262 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
263 XPG3
264 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
265 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
266 (CVE-2016-4429)
267 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
268 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
269 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
270 AS not supporting AVX512
271 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
272 sNaN argument
273 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
274 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
275 argument
276 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
277 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
278 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
279 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
280 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
281 eax=0x80000001
282 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
283 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
284 subnormals
285 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
286 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
287 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
288 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
289 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
290 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
291 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
292 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
293 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
294 input
295 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
296 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
297 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
298 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
299 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
300 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
301 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
302 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
303 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
304 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
305 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
306 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
307 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
308 double rounding
309 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
310 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
311 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
312 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
313 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
314 (Only arm/linux)
315 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
316 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
317 fallbacks
318 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
319 "invalid" exceptions
320 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
321 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
322 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
323 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
324 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
325 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
326 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
327 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
328 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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332* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
333 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
334 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
335 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
336 89, 16061, and 18568.
337
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338* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
339 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
340 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
341 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
342 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
343 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
344 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
345
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346* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
347 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
348 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
349
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350* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
351 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
352 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
353 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
354 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
355 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
356 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
357
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358* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
359 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
360 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
361 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
362 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 363 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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364 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
365 Ericsson.)
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367* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
368 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
369 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
370 independent of the GNU C Library.
371
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372* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
373 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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375* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
376 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
377 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
378 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
379 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
380 Linux kernel.
381
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382* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
383 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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385* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
386 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
387 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
388 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
389 defining their own copy.
390
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391* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
392 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
393 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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395Security related changes:
396
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397* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
398 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
399
400* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
401 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
402 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
403 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
404 (CVE-2015-8777)
405
406* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
407 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
408
409* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
410 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
411
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412* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
413 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 414 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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416* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
417 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
418 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
419 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
420 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
421 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
422 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
423 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
424 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
425 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
426 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
427 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
428 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
429
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432 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
433 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
434 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
435 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
436 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
437 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
438 use `mkstemp'
439 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
440 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
441 overflow/underflow errors
442 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
443 overflow/underflow
444 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
445 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
446 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
447 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
448 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
449 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
450 are not contiguous
451 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
452 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
453 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
454 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
455 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
456 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
457 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
458 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
459 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
460 all exceptions
461 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
462 arguments
463 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
464 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
465 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
466 should include
467 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
468 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
469 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
470 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
471 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
472 GNU/Linux
473 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
474 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
475 arguments
476 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
477 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
478 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
479 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
480 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
481 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
482 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
483 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
484 rounding results
485 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
486 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
487 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
488 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
489 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
490 fails
491 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
492 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
493 block boundary
494 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
495 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
496 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
497 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
498 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
499 4.7?
500 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
501 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
502 (related to lock elision)
503 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
504 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
505 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
506 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
507 (CVE-2015-8779)
508 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
509 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
510 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
511 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
512 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
513 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
514 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
515 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
516 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
517 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
518 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
519 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
520 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
521 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
522 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
523 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
524 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
525 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
526 contains a vector instruction exception.
527 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
528 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
529 locales
530 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
531 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
532 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
533 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
534 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
535 missing break ?
536 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
537 32bit processes
538 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
539 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
540 infinity
541 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
542 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
543 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
544 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
545 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
546 be forced unloaded
547 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
548 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
549 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
550 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
551 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
552 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
553 statically too large
554 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
555 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
556 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
557 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
558 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
559 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
560 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
561 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
562 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
563 FUTEX_SHARED
564 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
565 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
566 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
567 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
568 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
569 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
570 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
571 opendir()
572 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
573 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
574 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
575 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
576 signgam
577 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
578 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
579 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
580 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
581 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
582 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
583 dependencies
584 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
585 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
586 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
587 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
588 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
589 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
590 (CVE-2015-8776)
591 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
592 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
593 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
594 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
595 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
596 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
597 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
598 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
599 contention
600 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
601 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
602 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
603 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
604 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
605 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
606 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
607 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
608 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
609 rounding modes
610 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
611 ILP32
612 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
613 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
614 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
615 threshold
616 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
617 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
618 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
619 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
620 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
621 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
622 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
623 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
624 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
625 pthread_setaffinity_np
626 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
627 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
628 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
629 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
630 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
631 prelink
632 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
633 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
634 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
635 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
636 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
637 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
638 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
639 bits/mathcalls.h
640 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
641 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
642 for C99-based standards
643 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
644 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
645 math-only
646 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
647 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
648 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
649 disabled
650 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
651 "inexact" exceptions
652 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
653 arguments
654 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
655 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
656 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
657 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
658 rules
659 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
660 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
661 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
662 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
663 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
664 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
665 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
666 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
667 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
668 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
669 from 32bit
670 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
671 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
672 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
673 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
674 subnormals
675 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
676 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
677 error on 32-bit architectures
678 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
679 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
680 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
681 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
682 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
683 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
684 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
685 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
686 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
687 -Os
688 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
689 CPU's.
690 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
691 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
692 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
693 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
694 architectures
695 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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698
699* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
700
3df5cd98 701 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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702 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
703 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
704 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
705 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
706 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
707 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
708 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
709 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
710 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
711 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
712 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
713 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
714 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
715 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
716 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
717 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
718 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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719 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
720 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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722* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
723 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
724
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726 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
727 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
728 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
729 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
730 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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732* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
733 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
734 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
735 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
736 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
737
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739 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
740 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
741
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743 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
744 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
745 17998.
746
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747* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
748 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
749 condition in some applications.
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750
751* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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752 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
753 pow, powf.
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754 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
755 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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756 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
757 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 758 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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760* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
761 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
762 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
763 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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765* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
766 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
767 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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769* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
770 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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772* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
773 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
774 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
775
a03ba363 776 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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777 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
778 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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780Version 2.21
781
782* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
783
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785 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
786 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
787 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
788 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
789 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
790 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
791 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
792 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
793 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
794 17892.
795
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796* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
797 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
798 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
799 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
800 intended.
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802* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
803 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
804 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
805 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
806 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
807 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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810
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812 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 813 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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815* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
816 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
817 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
818 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
819 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
820 effects being visible outside transactions.
821
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823 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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825* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
826
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828 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
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831 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
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833* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
834 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
835
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836* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
837 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
838 format.
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840* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
841 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
842 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
843
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844* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
845 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
846
0d560bbf 847* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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849* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
850 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
851 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
852 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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854* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
855 with newer versions of bison.
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857* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
858 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
859 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
860 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
861 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
862 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
863 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
864 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
865 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
866 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
867 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
868 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
869 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
870
871 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
872 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
873 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
874 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
875 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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878
879* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
880
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881 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
882 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
883 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
884 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
885 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
886 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
887 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
888 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
889 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
890 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
891 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
892 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
893 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
894 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
895 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
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898 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
899 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
900 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
901 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 902 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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903 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
904 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
905 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
906 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
907
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908* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
909 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
910 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
911 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
912 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
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915
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916* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
917 can be used with is 2.6.32.
918
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919* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
920 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
921 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
922 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
923 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
924 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
925
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926* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
927 from ports.
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929* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
930 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
931 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
932 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
933 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
934 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
935 test macros defined.
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937* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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939* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
940 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
941 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
942 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
943 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
944 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
945 is not built.
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947* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
948 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
949 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
950 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
951 invocation.
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952
953* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
954 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
955 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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957* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
958 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
959 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
960 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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962* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
963 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
964 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
965 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
966 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
967 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
968 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
969 additional checks.
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971* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
972 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
973 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
974 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
975 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
976 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
977 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
978 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
979 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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980
981* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
982 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
983 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
984 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
985 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 986 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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987
988* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
989 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
990 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
991 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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993Version 2.19
994
995* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
996
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997 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
998 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
999 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1000 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1001 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1002 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1003 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1004 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1005 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1006 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1007 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1008 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1009 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1010 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1011 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1012 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1013 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1014 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
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1016* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1017 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1018
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1019* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1020 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1021 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1022 extension which uses __block.
1023
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1024* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1025 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1026 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1027 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1028 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1029
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1030* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1031 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1032 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1033 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1034 if malloc fails.
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1036* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1037 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1038 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1039 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1040 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1041
1042* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1043 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1044 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1045
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1046* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1047 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1048 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1049 #15856, #15857).
1050
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1051* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1052 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1053
82bab04b 1054* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1055 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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1058
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1059* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1060 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1061
3e181dda 1062* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
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1064* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1065
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1066* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1067 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1068 for which the C library was built.
1069
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1070* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1071 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1072 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1073 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1074 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1075 in the following circumstances:
1076
1077 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1078
1079 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1080 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1081
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1082* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1083 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1084
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1085* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1086 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
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1088* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1089
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1090* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1091 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1092
8b7d57cd 1093* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1094
1095* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1096
fd712ef3 1097* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1098
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1099* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1100 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1101 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1102 disable some of those declarations.
1103
7011c262 1104* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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1105 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1106 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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1107
1108* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1109 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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1110
1111* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1112 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1113 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1114 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1115 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1116 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1117 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1118 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1119 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1120 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1121 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1122 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1123 require recompilation.
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1125Version 2.18
1126
1127* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1128
17db6e8d 1129 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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1130 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1131 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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1132 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1133 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1134 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1135 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1136 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1137 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1138 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1139 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1140 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1141 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1142 15755, 15759.
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1144* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1145 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1146 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1147 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1148 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1149 understands and accepts the risks.
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1151* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1152 #15078).
1153
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1154* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1155 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
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1157* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1158 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1159 destructor calls to glibc.
1160
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1161* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1162 output.
1163
1164* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1165 non-x86 architectures.
1166
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1167* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1168
1169* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1170
1171* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1172 Richard Henderson.
1173
1174* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1175
1176* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1177 Richard Henderson.
1178
1179* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1180 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1181
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1182* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1183
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1184* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1185 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
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1187* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1188 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
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1190* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1191 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1192 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1193
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1195 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1196 attributes of a process.
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1198* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
1199 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
1200 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
1201 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
1202 mutexes.
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1204* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
1205 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1206
1207* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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1209Version 2.17
1210
1211* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1212
80ceeaee 1213 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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1214 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
1215 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
1216 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
1217 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
1218 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
1219 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
1220 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
1221 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
1222 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
1223 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
1224 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
1225 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
1226 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
1227 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
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1229* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
1230
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1231* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
1232 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
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1234* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
1235 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
1236
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1237* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
1238
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1239* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
1240 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
1241 zEnterprise z196.
1242 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1243
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1244* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
1245 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
1246 the internal function __secure_getenv.
1247
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1248* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
1249 Implemented by Gary Benson.
1250
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1251* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
1252 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1253
7aab07e4 1254* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 1255 can be used with is 2.6.16.
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1257* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
1258 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
1259
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1261 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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1262 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
1263 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
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1265* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
1266 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
1267
85429b1a 1268* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 1269 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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1271
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1272* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
1273 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
1274 information in --help and --version output.
1275
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1276* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
1277 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
1278 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
1279
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1281 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
1282 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
1283 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
1284 when the mode is enabled.
1285
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1287 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
1288 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
1289 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
1290 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
1291 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
1292 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
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1295 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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1298
1299* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1300
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1301 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
1302 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
1303 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
1304 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
1305 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
1306 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
1307 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
1308 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
1309 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
1310 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
1311 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
1312 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
1313 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
1314 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
1315 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
1316 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
1317 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
1318 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
1319 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
1320 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
1321 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
1322 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
1323 14277, 14278.
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1326 configuring glibc with:
1327 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
1328 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
1329 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1330
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1332
1333 + define static_assert
1334
1335 + do not declare gets
1336
1337 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
1338
1339 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
1340 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
1341 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
1342 implementation.
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1346 + uchar.h support added
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1349
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1351
9dc4e1fb 1352* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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1354* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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1356* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
1357 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1359* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
1360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1362* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
1363 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
1364 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
1365 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
1366 existing applications.
ffb7875d 1367
21708942 1368* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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1370 before 2.6.
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1372* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
1373 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
1374 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
1375
83678f76 1376* New locales: mag_IN
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1378* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
1379 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
1380 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
1381 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
1382 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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1384* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1385
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1386* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
1387 and Will Schmidt.
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1388
1389* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1390
1391* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
1392 without a previously built glibc.
1393
1394* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
1395 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
1396
1397* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
1398 now supported for ARM processors.
1399
1400* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
1401 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
1402 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
1403
1404* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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1406* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
1407 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
1408 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
1409 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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1411* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
1412 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
1413 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
1414 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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1416* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
1417 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
1418 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
1419 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
1420 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
1421
1422* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
1423 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
1424 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
1425 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 1427Version 2.15
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1430
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1431 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
1432 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
1433 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
1434 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
1435 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
1436 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
1437 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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1440 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1442* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
1443 and support for initgroups lookups.
1444 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1446* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
1447 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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1449* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
1450 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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1452* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
1453 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 1454 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 1455
d42964a0 1456* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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1457 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1458
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1459* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
1460 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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1462
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1463* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
1464 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1466* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
1467 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1469* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
1470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1472* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
1473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1475* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
1476 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1477
1478* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
1479 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1481* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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1482
1483* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
1484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 1485
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1486* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
1487 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 1488
6b64057b 1489* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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1493* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1494
553149f6 1495 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 1496 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 1497 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 1498 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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1500 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
1501 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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1502 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
1503 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 1504 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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1506* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
1507 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
1508 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 1509 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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1511 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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1512 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
1513 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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1514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1515
c6489db3 1516* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 1517 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 1518
72d1dddb 1519* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 1520 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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1522* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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1523
1524* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
1525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1527* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
1528 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
1529 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
1530 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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1533
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1535
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1536 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
1537 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
1538 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
1539 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
1540 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 1541
10b3bedc 1542* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 1543
ac2b484c 1544* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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1546* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
1547 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 1548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1550Version 2.12
1551
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1553
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1554 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
1555 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
1556 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
1557 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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1558 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
1559 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
1560 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 1561 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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1563* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 1564
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1565* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
1566
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1567* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
1568
1569* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
1570 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
1571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1572
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1574 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
1575 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
1576 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
1577 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1578
d36b9613 1579* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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1581Version 2.11
1582
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1583* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1584
1585 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
1586 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
1587 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
1588 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
1589 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
1590 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
1591
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1593 mkostemps64
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1594 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1595
24ab9c76 1596* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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1597 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1598
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1599* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
1600 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1601
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1602* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
1603
0122f28e 1604* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 1605 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 1606 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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1608
9d36a6c4 1609 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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1611
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1612* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
1613 strstr, strcasestr.
1614 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1615
1616* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
1617 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
1618
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1619* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
1620 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1621
1622* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
1623 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1624
1625* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
1626 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
1627 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
1628 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
1629 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
1630 necessity is every process again.
1631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1632
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1634 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
1635
1636* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
1637 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1638
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1639* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
1640 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
1641 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1642
9dd5b8a1 1643* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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1645Version 2.10
1646
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1648
1649 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
1650 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
1651 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
1652 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
1653 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
1654
bb066545 1655* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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1657
425ce2ed 1658* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 1659 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 1660
1fdd89a7 1661* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 1662 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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1665 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 1667* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 1668 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1670* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
1671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1672
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1673* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
1674 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1675
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1676* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
1677 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1678
1679* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
1680 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
1681 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1682
735be400 1683* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 1684
84aa52d7 1685* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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1686 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1687
1688* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
1689 and extend existing format specifiers.
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1690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1691
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1692* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
1693 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1694
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1695* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
1696 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
1697 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
1698 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
1699 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
1700 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1705
1706 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
1707 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
1708 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
1709 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
1710 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
1711
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1714
1715* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
1716 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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1718* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
1719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1721* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
1722 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
1723 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1724
1725* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
1726 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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1730* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
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1734 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
1735 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
1736 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1737
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1739 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1742 Sinhala)
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1745* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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1748
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1750
1751 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
1752 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
1753 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
1754 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
1755 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
1756 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
1757 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
1758
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1763* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
1764 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
1765
1766* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
1767
1768* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
1769 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1770
1771* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
1772 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1773
1774* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
1775 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
1776 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
1777
1778* Faster memset for x86-64.
1779 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
1780
1781* Faster memcpy on x86.
1782 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1783
1784* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
1785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1787* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 1788 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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1791
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1793
1794 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
1795 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
1796 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
1797 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
1798 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
1799
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1801 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
1802
1803* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
1804
1805* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
1806 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
1807 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
1808
1809* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
1810 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
1811
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1814
1815* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1816
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1818 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1819
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1821 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
1822
1823* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
1824 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
1825
1826* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1827
1828* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
1829 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1831* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
1832 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
1833 yo_NG.
1834
1835+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
1836 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1841
1842 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
1843 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
1844 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
1845 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
1846 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
1847 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
1848 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
1849 4702, 4858
1850
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1854
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1858
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1860
1861 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
1862 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
1863 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
1864 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
1865 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
1866 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
1867 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
1868 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
1869 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
1870
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1873 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1876 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1877
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1880* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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1883 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
1884 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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1887
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1890 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
1891 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1892
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1894 Ulrich Drepper.
1895
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1897
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1899 Ulrich Drepper.
1900
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1902
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1904 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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1907
1908* More overflow detection functions.
1909
1910* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
1911 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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1914 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
1915 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
1916 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
1917 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
1918 by Masahide Washizawa.
1919
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1921 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1923* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
1924 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
1925 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
1926 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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1929 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
1930
1931* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
1932
1933* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
1934 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
1935 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
1936
1937* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
1938 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
1939
1940* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
1941 for compatibility with some other systems.
1942
1943* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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1946
1947* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1948
1949 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
1950 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
1951 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
1952 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
1953 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
1954 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
1955
1956 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
1957
1958* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
1959
1960* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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1963
1964* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1965
1966 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
1967 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
1968 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
1969 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
1970
1971 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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1974
1975* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
1976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1978* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
1979 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
1980 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1981
1982* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
1983 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
1984
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1987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1988
1989* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
1990 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
1991 handling data.
1992
1993* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
1994 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 1995 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1997* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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1999
2000* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2001 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2002 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2003 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2004
2005* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2006 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2007 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2009
2010* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2011 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2012 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2013 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2014 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2016Version 2.3.3
2017
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2019 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2020
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2021* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2022 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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2026
2027* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2030* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2031 by Roland McGrath.
2032
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2035
2036* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2037 RFC 3484.
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2040
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2041* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2042 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2043 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2044 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2045 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2046 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2047 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2048 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2049 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2050
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2051* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2052 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2053 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2054
2055* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2057* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2058 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2061 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2062
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2065* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2066 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2068* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2069 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2070 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2071 of weak definition in ld.so.
2072
2073* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2074 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2075
2076* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2077 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2082 charsets.
2083
2084* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2085 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2087* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2088 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2090* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2091 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
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bb0ec5bd 2093* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2095 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2097* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2098 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
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bb0ec5bd 2100* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2101 implementation of regex.
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2103* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2104 Unicode 3.2.
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2107 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2109* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2110 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2111 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2113* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2116* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2117 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2118 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2120* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2121 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2123* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2124 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2125 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2127* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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2130
2131* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2132 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2133
2134* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2135 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2138
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2140 128-bit long double format.
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2143 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
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ad2e4f18 2145* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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2149* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2150 as well.
2151
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2152* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2153 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2154
2155* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2157Version 2.2.4
2158
2995f70e 2159* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2160 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2162* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2163 support Unicode 3.1.
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2165* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2166 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 2167
69d5f925 2168* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 2169
69d5f925 2170* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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2171 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
2172 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2173
2174* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2175 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2176
2177* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2178 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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2180* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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2182Version 2.2.3
2183
1746f2b0 2184* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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2185 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
2186 in float, double, and long double format.
2187
f128331c 2188* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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2189 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
2190 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 2191
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2192* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2193 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2194 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2195 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2196
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2197* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
2198 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
2199 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2201* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
2202 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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2204* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
2205 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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2207* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
2208 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
2209 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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2211* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
2212 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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2214* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
2215 of functions for Linux/x86.
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2217* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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2219Version 2.2.2
2220
464d97ec 2221* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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2222 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
2223 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
2224 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
2225 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
2226 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
2227 other headers.
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2229* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
2230 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
2231
2232* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
2233 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
2234 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
2235 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2236
2237* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
2238 locales. While
2239
2240 locale -a
2241
2242 only lists the names of the supported locales
2243
2244 locale -a --verbose
2245
2246 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
2247 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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2250
2251* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
2252 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
2253 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
2254 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
2255 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
2256
2257 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
2258
2259 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
2260
2261 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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2263* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
2264 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
2265 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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2267* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
2268 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
2269
2270* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
2271 changed from the default "C" locale.
2272
2273* The usual bug fixes.
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2276
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2277* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
2278 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
2279 is in progress.
2280
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2281* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
2282
793bd4d9 2283* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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2285 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
2286 obviously requires a database library being available.
2287
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2288* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2289
abbffdf9 2290* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 2291
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2292* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
2293 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
2294
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2295* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
2296
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2297* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
2298 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
2299 and Mark Kettenis.
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2300
2301 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
2302 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
2303 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 2304
a00c3ca9 2305 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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2306 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
2307
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2308* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
2309 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
2310 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
2311
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2312* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
2313 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
2314 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
2315 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2316
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2317 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
2318 structures for the wide character tables.
2319
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2320* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2321
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2322* The utmp daemon has been removed.
2323
2324* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
2325
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2326* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
2327 and Yutaka Niibe.
2328
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2329* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
2330
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2331* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
2332
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2333* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2334
2335* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
2336
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2337* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
2338
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2339* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
2340 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
2341 implemented for Linux.
2342
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2343* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
2344 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
2345 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
2346 versions.
2347
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2348* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
2349 Masahide Washizawa.
2350
8f3f1e09 2351* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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2353Version 2.1.3
2354
2355* bug fixes
2356
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2358Version 2.1.2
2359
2360* bug fixes
2361
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2363Version 2.1.1
2364
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2365* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
2366
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2367* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
2368
407d26b7 2369* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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2370
2371* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
2372
407d26b7 2373* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 2374
407d26b7 2375* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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2376
2377* Update timezone data files.
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2379* lots of charmaps corrections
2380
2381* some new locale definitions and charmaps
2382
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2384Version 2.1
2385
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2386* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
2387 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
2388 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
2389 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
2390 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
2391 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
2392
c84142e8 2393* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 2394 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 2395
1fb05e3d 2396* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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2397 symbol level.
2398
2399* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
2400 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 2401
cbdee279 2402* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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2403
2404* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 2405 numbers.
377a515b 2406
cbdee279 2407* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 2408
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2409* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
2410 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 2411
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2412* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
2413 library.
2414
e61abf83 2415* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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2416 functions from ISO C 9X.
2417
2418* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
2419 real valued functions.
e61abf83 2420
a5a0310d 2421* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 2422
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2423* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
2424
2425* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 2426
440d13e2 2427* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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2428
2429* Optimized string functions have been added.
2430
2431* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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2432
2433* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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2435* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
2436 daemon for NSS (nscd).
2437
2438 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
2439 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
2440
0dee6738 2441 user system wall
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0dee6738 2443 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 2444
0dee6738 2445 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 2446
0dee6738 2447 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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2449 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
2450
2451 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
2452
2453 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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2455 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
2456 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 2457 horribly slow.
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2459 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
2460 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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2462* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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2464* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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2465
2466* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
2467 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
2468
2469* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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2472 Bambrough.
2473
2474* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
2475 latest draft standards.
2476
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2477* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
2478
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2479* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
2480~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2484argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
2485argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
2486argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2487argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
2488argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
2489argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
2490argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
2491argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2492argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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2493authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
2494authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
2495authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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2496backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
2497backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
2498backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
2499cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
2500cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
2501cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
2502cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2503cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2504cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
2505capget NEW: kernel
2506capset NEW: kernel
2507carg NEW: ISO C 9x
2508cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
2509cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
2510casin NEW: ISO C 9x
2511casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
2512casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
2513casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2514casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2515casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
2516catan NEW: ISO C 9x
2517catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2518catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
2519catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2520catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2521catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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2524ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
2525ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
2526ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2527ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2528ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
2529cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
2530cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
2531cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
2532cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
2533cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
2534cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
2535clearerr_locked REMOVED
2536clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
2537clog NEW: ISO C 9x
2538clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
2539clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2540clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2541clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
2542clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
2543conj NEW: ISO C 9x
2544conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
2545conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
2546cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
2547cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
2548cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
2549cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
2550cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
2551cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
2552creal NEW: ISO C 9x
2553crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
2554creall NEW: ISO C 9x
2555creat64 NEW: LFS
2556csin NEW: ISO C 9x
2557csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
2558csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
2559csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2560csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2561csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
2562csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
2563csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
2564csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
2565ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
2566ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2567ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
2568ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2569ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2570ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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2572ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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2575exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2576exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2577exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
2578exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
2579exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
2580fattach NEW: STREAMS
2581fdetach NEW: STREAMS
2582fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
2583fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
2584fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
2585feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2586fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2587fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2588fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2589feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2590feof_locked REMOVED
2591feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2592ferror_locked REMOVED
2593fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2594fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2595fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2596fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2597feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2598fflush_locked REMOVED
2599ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
2600ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
2601fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
2602fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2603fileno_locked REMOVED
2604fma NEW: ISO C 9x
2605fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
2606fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
2607fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
2608fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
2609fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
2610fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
2611fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
2612fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
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2615fputc_locked REMOVED
2616fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2617fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2618freopen64 NEW: LFS
2619fseeko NEW: Unix98
2620fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
2621fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
2622fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
2623fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
2624ftello NEW: Unix98
2625ftello64 NEW: LFS
2626ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
2627ftw64 NEW: LFS
2628fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2629gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
2630gamma_r REMOVED
2631gammaf_r REMOVED
2632gammal_r REMOVED
2633getchar_locked REMOVED
2634getdate NEW: Unix98
2635getdate_err NEW: Unix98
2636getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
2637getmsg NEW: STREAMS
2638getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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2641getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
2642getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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2644getutxid NEW: Unix98
2645getutxline NEW: Unix98
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2647globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
2648gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
2649gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
2650grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
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2653iconv_close NEW: iconv
2654iconv_open NEW: iconv
2655if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
2656if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
2657if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
2658if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
2659in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
2660in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
2661inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
2662isastream NEW: STREAMS
2663iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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2665key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
2666key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
2667key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
2668key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
2669key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
2670key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
2671key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
2672key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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2674llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
2675llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
2676llround NEW: ISO C 9x
2677llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
2678llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
2679log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
2680log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
2681log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
2682lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
2683lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
2684lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
2685lround NEW: ISO C 9x
2686lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
2687lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
2688lseek64 NEW: LFS
2689makecontext NEW: Unix98
2690mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
2691mmap64 NEW: LFS
2692moncontrol REMOVED
2693modify_ldt NEW: kernel
2694nan NEW: ISO C 9x
2695nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2696nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
2697nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
2698nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
2699nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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2701netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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2703nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
2704nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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2705nftw NEW: Unix98
2706nftw64 NEW: LFS
2707open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 2708passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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2709pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
2710pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
2711pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
2712pread NEW: Unix98
2713pread64 NEW: LFS
2714printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
2715printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
2716profil_counter REMOVED
2717pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
2718pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
2719ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
2720ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
2721putc_locked REMOVED
2722putchar_locked REMOVED
2723putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
2724putmsg NEW: STREAMS
2725putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 2726pututxline NEW: Unix98
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2727pwrite NEW: Unix98
2728pwrite64 NEW: LFS
2729readdir64 NEW: LFS
2730readdir64_r NEW: LFS
2731remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
2732remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
2733remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
2734round NEW: ISO C 9x
2735roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
2736roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
2737rtime NEW: GNU ext.
2738scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
2739scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
2740scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
2741scandir64 NEW: LFS
2742sendfile NEW: kernel
2743setcontext NEW: Unix98
2744setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 2745setutxent NEW: Unix98
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2746sighold NEW: Unix98
2747sigignore NEW: Unix98
2748sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
2749sigrelse NEW: Unix98
2750sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
2751sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
2752sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
2753sincos NEW: GNU ext.
2754sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
2755sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
2756statfs64 NEW: LFS
2757statvfs NEW: Unix98
2758statvfs64 NEW: LFS
2759strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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2760strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
2761strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
2762strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 2763svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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2764svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
2765svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
2766swapcontext NEW: Unix98
2767tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
2768tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
2769tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
2770tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
2771tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
2772tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
2773trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
2774truncate64 NEW: LFS
2775truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
2776truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
2777umount2 NEW: kernel
2778unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 2779updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 2780user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 2781utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 2782versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 2783versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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2784waitid NEW: Unix98
2785wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
2786wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
2787wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
2788wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
2789wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
2790wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
2791wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
2792wcswcs NEW: Unix98
2793wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
2794wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
2795write_profiling REMOVED
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2796xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
2797xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
2798xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
2799xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
2800xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
2801xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
2802xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
2803xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
2804xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
2805xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
2806xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
2807xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
2808xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 2809xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 2810xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 2811~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2813Version 2.0.6
2814
2815* more bug fixes
2816
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2818Version 2.0.5
2819
2820* more bug fixes
2821
2822* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
2823
2824* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
2825
2826* rewrite of cbrt function
2827
2828* update of timezone data
2829\f
2830Version 2.0.4
2831
2832* more bug fixes
2833\f
2834Version 2.0.3
2835
2836* more bug fixes
c84142e8 2837\f
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2838Version 2.0.2
2839
2840* more bug fixes
2841
2842* add atoll function
2843
2844* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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2845
2846* fix math functions
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2848Version 2.0.1
2849
2850* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
2851
2852* dynamic loader preserves all registers
2853
2854* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
2855 the ELF dynamic loader.
2856
2857* support for parallel builds is improved
2858\f
40a4b79f 2859Version 2.0
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2861* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
2862 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
2863 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
2864
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2865* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
2866 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
2867 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
2868 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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2869 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
2870 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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2871 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
2872 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
2873 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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2874 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
2875 files in the ELF format.
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2876
2877* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
2878 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
2879
2880* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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2881 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
2882 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
2883 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
2884 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
2885 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
2886 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
2887 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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2888 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
2889 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
2890 about dynamically linked binaries.
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2892* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
2893 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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2894 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
2895 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
2896 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 2897
f7eac6eb 2898* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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2899 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
2900 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
2901 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
2902 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
2903
2904* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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2906* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
2907 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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2908 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
2909 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
2910 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
2911 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
2912 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
2913 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
2914 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 2915
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2916* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
2917 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
2918 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
2919
2920* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
2921 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
2922 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
2923
2924* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
2925 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
2926 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
2927 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
2928
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2929* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
2930 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
2931 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
2932
2933* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
2934 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
2935 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
2936
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2937* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
2938 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
2939
f7eac6eb 2940* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 2941 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 2942 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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2943 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
2944
2945* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
2946 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
2947 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 2948
71733723 2949* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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2950 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
2951 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
2952 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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2953 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
2954 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 2955 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 2956 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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2957
2958* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
2959 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
2960 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
2961 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
2962 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
2963 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
2964 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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2965
2966* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
2967 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
2968 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
2969 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
2970 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
2971 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
2972
2973* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
2974 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
2975
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2976* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
2977 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
2978 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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2980* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
2981
2982* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
2983 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
2984 their use is discouraged.
2985
2986* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
2987 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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2989* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
2990 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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2991
2992* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
2993 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
2994
2995* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
2996 see <dirent.h>.
2997
2998* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
2999 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3000 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3001 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3002 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3003
3004* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3005 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3006 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3007 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3008
3009* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3010 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3011
3012* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3013 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3014 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3015 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3016 number generator.
3017
3018* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3019 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3020
3021* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3022 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3023
71733723 3024* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3025 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3026 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3027 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 3028
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3029* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3030
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3031* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3032 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3033 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3034
3035* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3036 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 3038* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3039 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3040 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3041 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3042
3043* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3044 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3045 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3046 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3047 programs already written to use it.)
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3048
3049* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3050 constants.
3051
3052* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3053 with 4.4 BSD.
3054
3055* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3056 a given effective group ID.
3057
3058* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3059 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3060 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3061 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3062
3063* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3064 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3065 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3066 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3067 doing the same thing.
3068
3069* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3070 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3071
3072* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3073 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3074
3075* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3076
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3077* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3078 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3079 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3080 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3081 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3082
3083* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3084 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3085
3086* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3087 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3088 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3089 function.
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3090
3091* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3092
3093* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3094 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3095 strings.
3096
3097* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3098 and writing the utmp file.
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3099
3100* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3101 Thorsten Kukuk.
3102
3103* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3104 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3105 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3106
3107* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3108 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3109
3110* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3111 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3112 specification.
3113
3114* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3115 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3116 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3117 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3118
3119* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3120 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3121 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3122
3123* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3124 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3125 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3126 expression matcher.
3127
3128* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3129 functionality.
3130
3131* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3132 by Ulrich Drepper.
3133
3134* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3135
3136* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3137 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3138 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3139\f
3140Version 1.09
3141
3142* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3143
3144* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3145 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3146
3147* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3148 want to put themselves in the background.
3149
3150* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3151 run without an operating system.
3152
3153* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3154 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3155
3156* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3157 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3158
3159* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3160
3161* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3162 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3163 have YP (aka NIS).
3164
3165* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3166 conventions.
3167
3168* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3169 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3170\f
3171Version 1.08
3172
3173* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3174 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3175 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3176
3177* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3178 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3179
3180* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3181 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3182
3183* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3184
3185* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3186
3187* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3188 compatibility.
3189
3190* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3191 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3192 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3193
3194* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3195
3196* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3197 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
3198 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
3199
3200* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
3201 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
3202 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
3203 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
3204 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
3205 on a block).
3206
3207* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
3208 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
3209 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
3210 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
3211 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
3212 cross-compiler.
3213
3214* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
3215 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
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3217Version 1.07
3218
3219* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
3220 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
3221
3222* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
3223 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
3224 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
3225
3226* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
3227 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
3228 address of the last character written.
3229
3230* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
3231 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
3232
3233* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
3234 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
3235
3236* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
3237 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
3238 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
3239 you dereference this pointer.
3240
3241* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
3242 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
3243
3244* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
3245 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
3246 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
3247 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
3248
3249* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
3250 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
3251 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
3252 EAGAIN in every system call function.
3253\f
3254Version 1.06
3255
3256* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
3257 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
3258 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
3259 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 3260 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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3261
3262* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
3263
3264* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
3265
3266* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
3267 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
3268
3269* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
3270 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
3271
3272* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
3273 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
3274
3275* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
3276 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
3277 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
3278 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
3279 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
3280
3281* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
3282 to the error code in `errno'.
3283
3284* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
3285 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
3286 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
3287 malloc'd string.
3288
3289* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
3290 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
3291 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
3292
3293* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
3294 uniquely-named temporary file.
3295\f
3296Version 1.05
3297
3298* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
3299 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
3300 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
3301
3302* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
3303 characters.
3304
3305* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
3306 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
3307
3308* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
3309\f
3310Version 1.04
3311
3312* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
3313 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
3314 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
3315 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
3316
3317* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
3318 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
3319 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
3320
3321* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
3322 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
3323
3324* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
3325 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
3326 made itself into a shared library.
3327
3328* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
3329 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
3330
3331* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
3332 with limited length.
3333
3334* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
3335
3336* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
3337
3338* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
3339
3340* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
3341 function for traversing a directory tree.
3342
3343* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
3344 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
3345 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
3346 formatted output directly to an obstack.
3347
3348* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
3349 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
3350
3351* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
3352
3353* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
3354 things to your strings.
3355
3356* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
3357
3358* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
3359 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
3360 supporting those systems.
3361
3362* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
3363 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
3364 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
3365 configuration files.
3366
3367* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
3368 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
3369
3370* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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3371 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
3372 in <strings.h>.)
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3373
3374* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
3375 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
3376 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
3377 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
3378 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
3379 required storage is not available.
3380
3381* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
3382 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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3383
3384* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
3385 latest files released from Berkeley.
3386\f
3387----------------------------------------------------------------------
3388Copyright information:
3389
1979f3c1 3390Copyright (C) 1992-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3391
3392 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
3393 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
3394 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
3395 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
3396
3397 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
3398 of this document, or of portions of it,
3399 under the above conditions, provided also that they
3400 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
3401\f
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