It can be used to speed up the libgcc unwinder, and the internal
_dl_find_dso_for_object function (which is used for caller
identification in dlopen and related functions, and in dladdr).
_dl_find_object is in the internal namespace due to bug 28503.
If libgcc switches to _dl_find_object, this namespace issue will
be fixed. It is located in libc for two reasons: it is necessary
to forward the call to the static libc after static dlopen, and
there is a link ordering issue with -static-libgcc and libgcc_eh.a
because libc.so is not a linker script that includes ld.so in the
glibc build tree (so that GCC's internal -lc after libgcc_eh.a does
not pick up ld.so).
It is necessary to do the i386 customization in the
sysdeps/x86/bits/dl_find_object.h header shared with x86-64 because
otherwise, multilib installations are broken.
The implementation uses software transactional memory, as suggested
by Torvald Riegel. Two copies of the supporting data structures are
used, also achieving full async-signal-safety.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
The syscall function does not allocate the extra stack frame for scv like other
assembly syscalls using DO_CALL_SCV. So after commit d120fb9941 changed the
offset that is used to save LR, syscall ended up using an invalid offset,
causing regressions on powerpc64. So make sure the extra stack frame is
allocated in syscall.S as well to make it consistent with other uses of
DO_CALL_SCV and avoid similar issues in the future.
Tested on powerpc, powerpc64, and powerpc64le (with and without scv)
Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
The error handling is moved to sysdeps/ieee754 version with no SVID
support. The compatibility symbol versions still use the wrapper with
SVID error handling around the new code. There is no new symbol version
nor compatibility code on !LIBM_SVID_COMPAT targets (e.g. riscv).
Only ia64 is unchanged, since it still uses the arch specific
__libm_error_region on its implementation.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, and aarch64-linux-gnu.
The relationship between the thread pointer and the rseq area
is made explicit. The constant offset can be used by JIT compilers
to optimize rseq access (e.g., for really fast sched_getcpu).
Extensibility is provided through __rseq_size and __rseq_flags.
(In the future, the kernel could request a different rseq size
via the auxiliary vector.)
Co-Authored-By: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
The rseq area is placed directly into struct pthread. rseq
registration failure is not treated as an error, so it is possible
that threads run with inconsistent registration status.
<sys/rseq.h> is not yet installed as a public header.
Co-Authored-By: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
The LFS prlimit64 requires a arch-specific implementation in
syscalls.list. Instead add a generic one that handles the
required symbol alias for __RLIM_T_MATCHES_RLIM64_T.
HPPA is the only outlier which requires a different default
symbol.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and with build for the affected ABIs.
Passing 64-bit arguments on syscalls.list is tricky: it requires
to reimplement the expected kernel abi in each architecture. This
is way to better to represent in C code where we already have
macros for this (SYSCALL_LL64).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
It requires less boilerplate code for newer ports. The _Static_assert
checks from internal setjmp are moved to its own internal test since
setjmp.h is included early by multiple headers (to generate
rtld-sizes.sym).
The riscv jmp_buf-macros.h check is also redundant, it is already
done by riscv configure.ac.
Checked with a build for the affected architectures.
Linux 5.15 has one new syscall, process_mrelease (and also enables the
clone3 syscall for RV32). It also has a macro __NR_SYSCALL_MASK for
Arm, which is not a syscall but matches the pattern used for syscall
macro names.
Add __NR_SYSCALL_MASK to the names filtered out in the code dealing
with syscall lists, update syscall-names.list for the new syscall and
regenerate the arch-syscall.h headers with build-many-glibcs.py
update-syscalls.
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py.
No bug.
This commit adds support for __memcmpeq() as a new ABI for all
targets. In this commit __memcmpeq() is implemented only as an alias
to the corresponding targets memcmp() implementation. __memcmpeq() is
added as a new symbol starting with GLIBC_2.35 and defined in string.h
with comments explaining its behavior. Basic tests that it is callable
and works where added in string/tester.c
As discussed in the proposal "Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc"
__memcmpeq() is essentially a reserved namespace for bcmp(). The means
is shares the same specifications as memcmp() except the return value
for non-equal byte sequences is any non-zero value. This is less
strict than memcmp()'s return value specification and can be better
optimized when a boolean return is all that is needed.
__memcmpeq() is meant to only be called by compilers if they can prove
that the return value of a memcmp() call is only used for its boolean
value.
All tests in string/tester.c passed. As well build succeeds on
x86_64-linux-gnu target.
When LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE is used to check a linker option with the equal
sign, it will likely fail because the LD -v --help output may look like
`-z lam-report=[none|warning|error]` while the needle is something like
`-z lam-report=warning`.
The LD -v --help filter doesn't save much time, so just remove it.
The powerpc optimization to provide a fast stacktrace requires some
ad-hoc code to handle Linux signal frames and the change is fragile
once the kernel decides to slight change its execution sequence [1].
The generic implementation work as-is and it should be future proof
since the kernel provides the expected CFI directives in vDSO shared
page.
Checked on powerpc-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, and
powerpc64-linux-gnu.
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122027.html
The 4af6982e4c fix does not fully handle RTLD_BOOTSTRAP usage on
rtld.c due two issues:
1. RTLD_BOOTSTRAP is also used on dl-machine.h on various
architectures and it changes the semantics of various machine
relocation functions.
2. The elf_get_dynamic_info() change was done sideways, previously
to 490e6c62aa get-dynamic-info.h was included by the first
dynamic-link.h include *without* RTLD_BOOTSTRAP being defined.
It means that the code within elf_get_dynamic_info() that uses
RTLD_BOOTSTRAP is in fact unused.
To fix 1. this patch now includes dynamic-link.h only once with
RTLD_BOOTSTRAP defined. The ELF_DYNAMIC_RELOCATE call will now have
the relocation fnctions with the expected semantics for the loader.
And to fix 2. part of 4af6982e4c is reverted (the check argument
elf_get_dynamic_info() is not required) and the RTLD_BOOTSTRAP
pieces are removed.
To reorganize the includes the static TLS definition is moved to
its own header to avoid a circular dependency (it is defined on
dynamic-link.h and dl-machine.h requires it at same time other
dynamic-link.h definition requires dl-machine.h defitions).
Also ELF_MACHINE_NO_REL, ELF_MACHINE_NO_RELA, and ELF_MACHINE_PLT_REL
are moved to its own header. Only ancient ABIs need special values
(arm, i386, and mips), so a generic one is used as default.
The powerpc Elf64_FuncDesc is also moved to its own header, since
csu code required its definition (which would require either include
elf/ folder or add a full path with elf/).
Checked on x86_64, i686, aarch64, armhf, powerpc64, powerpc32,
and powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
C2X adds new <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and
minimum, corresponding to the new operations that were added in IEEE
754-2019 because of concerns about the old operations not being
associative in the presence of signaling NaNs. fmaximum and fminimum
handle NaNs like most <math.h> functions (any NaN argument means the
result is a quiet NaN). fmaximum_num and fminimum_num handle both
quiet and signaling NaNs the way fmax and fmin handle quiet NaNs (if
one argument is a number and the other is a NaN, return the number),
but still raise "invalid" for a signaling NaN argument, making them
exceptions to the normal rule that a function with a floating-point
result raising "invalid" also returns a quiet NaN. fmaximum_mag,
fminimum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num and fminimum_mag_num are corresponding
functions returning the argument with greatest or least absolute
value. All these functions also treat +0 as greater than -0. There
are also corresponding <tgmath.h> type-generic macros.
Add these functions to glibc. The implementations use type-generic
templates based on those for fmax, fmin, fmaxmag and fminmag, and test
inputs are based on those for those functions with appropriate
adjustments to the expected results. The RISC-V maintainers might
wish to add optimized versions of fmaximum_num and fminimum_num (for
float and double), since RISC-V (F extension version 2.2 and later)
provides instructions corresponding to those functions - though it
might be at least as useful to add architecture-independent built-in
functions to GCC and teach the RISC-V back end to expand those
functions inline, which is what you generally want for functions that
can be implemented with a single instruction.
Tested for x86_64 and x86, and with build-many-glibcs.py.
This patch adds the narrowing fused multiply-add functions from TS
18661-1 / TS 18661-3 / C2X to glibc's libm: ffma, ffmal, dfmal,
f32fmaf64, f32fmaf32x, f32xfmaf64 for all configurations; f32fmaf64x,
f32fmaf128, f64fmaf64x, f64fmaf128, f32xfmaf64x, f32xfmaf128,
f64xfmaf128 for configurations with _Float64x and _Float128;
__f32fmaieee128 and __f64fmaieee128 aliases in the powerpc64le case
(for calls to ffmal and dfmal when long double is IEEE binary128).
Corresponding tgmath.h macro support is also added.
The changes are mostly similar to those for the other narrowing
functions previously added, especially that for sqrt, so the
description of those generally applies to this patch as well. As with
sqrt, I reused the same test inputs in auto-libm-test-in as for
non-narrowing fma rather than adding extra or separate inputs for
narrowing fma. The tests in libm-test-narrow-fma.inc also follow
those for non-narrowing fma.
The non-narrowing fma has a known bug (bug 6801) that it does not set
errno on errors (overflow, underflow, Inf * 0, Inf - Inf). Rather
than fixing this or having narrowing fma check for errors when
non-narrowing does not (complicating the cases when narrowing fma can
otherwise be an alias for a non-narrowing function), this patch does
not attempt to check for errors from narrowing fma and set errno; the
CHECK_NARROW_FMA macro is still present, but as a placeholder that
does nothing, and this missing errno setting is considered to be
covered by the existing bug rather than needing a separate open bug.
missing-errno annotations are duly added to many of the
auto-libm-test-in test inputs for fma.
This completes adding all the new functions from TS 18661-1 to glibc,
so will be followed by corresponding stdc-predef.h changes to define
__STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__, as the support
for TS 18661-1 will be at a similar level to that for C standard
floating-point facilities up to C11 (pragmas not implemented, but
library functions done). (There are still further changes to be done
to implement changes to the types of fromfp functions from N2548.)
Tested as followed: natively with the full glibc testsuite for x86_64
(GCC 11, 7, 6) and x86 (GCC 11); with build-many-glibcs.py with GCC
11, 7 and 6; cross testing of math/ tests for powerpc64le, powerpc32
hard float, mips64 (all three ABIs, both hard and soft float). The
different GCC versions are to cover the different cases in tgmath.h
and tgmath.h tests properly (GCC 6 has _Float* only as typedefs in
glibc headers, GCC 7 has proper _Float* support, GCC 8 adds
__builtin_tgmath).
This patch adds the narrowing square root functions from TS 18661-1 /
TS 18661-3 / C2X to glibc's libm: fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl, f32sqrtf64,
f32sqrtf32x, f32xsqrtf64 for all configurations; f32sqrtf64x,
f32sqrtf128, f64sqrtf64x, f64sqrtf128, f32xsqrtf64x, f32xsqrtf128,
f64xsqrtf128 for configurations with _Float64x and _Float128;
__f32sqrtieee128 and __f64sqrtieee128 aliases in the powerpc64le case
(for calls to fsqrtl and dsqrtl when long double is IEEE binary128).
Corresponding tgmath.h macro support is also added.
The changes are mostly similar to those for the other narrowing
functions previously added, so the description of those generally
applies to this patch as well. However, the not-actually-narrowing
cases (where the two types involved in the function have the same
floating-point format) are aliased to sqrt, sqrtl or sqrtf128 rather
than needing a separately built not-actually-narrowing function such
as was needed for add / sub / mul / div. Thus, there is no
__nldbl_dsqrtl name for ldbl-opt because no such name was needed
(whereas the other functions needed such a name since the only other
name for that entry point was e.g. f32xaddf64, not reserved by TS
18661-1); the headers are made to arrange for sqrt to be called in
that case instead.
The DIAG_* calls in sysdeps/ieee754/soft-fp/s_dsqrtl.c are because
they were observed to be needed in GCC 7 testing of
riscv32-linux-gnu-rv32imac-ilp32. The other sysdeps/ieee754/soft-fp/
files added didn't need such DIAG_* in any configuration I tested with
build-many-glibcs.py, but if they do turn out to be needed in more
files with some other configuration / GCC version, they can always be
added there.
I reused the same test inputs in auto-libm-test-in as for
non-narrowing sqrt rather than adding extra or separate inputs for
narrowing sqrt. The tests in libm-test-narrow-sqrt.inc also follow
those for non-narrowing sqrt.
Tested as followed: natively with the full glibc testsuite for x86_64
(GCC 11, 7, 6) and x86 (GCC 11); with build-many-glibcs.py with GCC
11, 7 and 6; cross testing of math/ tests for powerpc64le, powerpc32
hard float, mips64 (all three ABIs, both hard and soft float). The
different GCC versions are to cover the different cases in tgmath.h
and tgmath.h tests properly (GCC 6 has _Float* only as typedefs in
glibc headers, GCC 7 has proper _Float* support, GCC 8 adds
__builtin_tgmath).
Linux 5.14 has two new syscalls, memfd_secret (on some architectures
only) and quotactl_fd. Update syscall-names.list and regenerate the
arch-syscall.h headers with build-many-glibcs.py update-syscalls.
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py.
Linux 5.13 adds a PTRACE_GET_RSEQ_CONFIGURATION constant, with an
associated ptrace_rseq_configuration structure.
Add this constant to the various sys/ptrace.h headers in glibc, with
the structure in bits/ptrace-shared.h (named struct
__ptrace_rseq_configuration in glibc, as with other such structures).
Tested for x86_64, and with build-many-glibcs.py.
These deprecated functions are only safe to call from
__malloc_initialize_hook and as a result, are not useful in the
general case. Move the implementations to libc_malloc_debug so that
existing binaries that need it will now have to preload the debug DSO
to work correctly.
This also allows simplification of the core malloc implementation by
dropping all the undumping support code that was added to make
malloc_set_state work.
One known breakage is that of ancient emacs binaries that depend on
this. They will now crash when running with this libc. With
LD_BIND_NOW=1, it will terminate immediately because of not being able
to find malloc_set_state but with lazy binding it will crash in
unpredictable ways. It will need a preloaded libc_malloc_debug.so so
that its initialization hook is executed to allow its malloc
implementation to work properly.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The malloc-check debugging feature is tightly integrated into glibc
malloc, so thanks to an idea from Florian Weimer, much of the malloc
implementation has been moved into libc_malloc_debug.so to support
malloc-check. Due to this, glibc malloc and malloc-check can no
longer work together; they use altogether different (but identical)
structures for heap management. This should not make a difference
though since the malloc check hook is not disabled anywhere.
malloc_set_state does, but it does so early enough that it shouldn't
cause any problems.
The malloc check tunable is now in the debug DSO and has no effect
when the DSO is not preloaded.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Wean mtrace away from the malloc hooks and move them into the debug
DSO. Split the API away from the implementation so that we can add
the API to libc.so as well as libc_malloc_debug.so, with the libc
implementations being empty.
Update localplt data since memalign no longer has any callers after
this change.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Split the mcheck implementation into the debugging hooks and API so
that the API can be replicated in libc and libc_malloc_debug.so. The
libc APIs always result in failure.
The mcheck implementation has also been moved entirely into
libc_malloc_debug.so and with it, all of the hook initialization code
can now be moved into the debug library. Now the initialization can
be done independently of libc internals.
With this patch, libc_malloc_debug.so can no longer be used with older
libcs, which is not its goal anyway. tst-vfork3 breaks due to this
since it spawns shell scripts, which in turn execute using the system
glibc. Move the test to tests-container so that only the built glibc
is used.
This move also fixes bugs in the mcheck version of memalign and
realloc, thus allowing removal of the tests from tests-mcheck
exclusion list.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Remove all malloc hook uses from core malloc functions and move it
into a new library libc_malloc_debug.so. With this, the hooks now no
longer have any effect on the core library.
libc_malloc_debug.so is a malloc interposer that needs to be preloaded
to get hooks functionality back so that the debugging features that
depend on the hooks, i.e. malloc-check, mcheck and mtrace work again.
Without the preloaded DSO these debugging features will be nops.
These features will be ported away from hooks in subsequent patches.
Similarly, legacy applications that need hooks functionality need to
preload libc_malloc_debug.so.
The symbols exported by libc_malloc_debug.so are maintained at exactly
the same version as libc.so.
Finally, static binaries will no longer be able to use malloc
debugging features since they cannot preload the debugging DSO.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This switches to public symbols without __ prefixes, due to improved
namespace management in glibc.
The script was used with --no-new-version to move the symbols
__res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain, __res_nsearch, __res_query,
__res_querydomain, __res_search, res_query, res_querydomain,
res_search. The public symbols res_nquery, res_nquerydomain,
res_nsearch, res_ownok, res_query, res_querydomain, res_search
were added with make update-all-abi.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This switches to public symbols without __ prefixes, due to improved
namespace management in glibc.
The symbols res_mkquery, __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery were
moved with the script (using --no-new-version).
res_mkquery@@GLIBC_2.34, res_nmkquery@@GLIBC_2.34 were added using
make update-all-abi.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Switch to public symbols without __ prefix (due to improved
namespace management).
__res_send, __res_nsend were moved using the script (with
--no-new-version). res_send@@GLIBC_2.34 and res_nsend@@GLIBC_2.34
were added using make update-all-abi.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This reflects what the remaining functions in the file do.
The __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok, __res_ownok were moved
with the script, using --no-new-version, and turned into compat
symbols. __libc_res_dnok@@GLIBC_PRIVATE and
__libc_res_hnok@@GLIBC_PRIVATE are added for internal use, to avoid
accidentally binding to compatibility symbols. The new public
symbols res_dnok, res_hnok, res_mailok, res_ownok were added using
make update-all-abi.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat it to GNU style.
dn_skipname is used outside glibc, so do not deprecate it,
and export it as dn_skipname (not __dn_skipname). Due to internal
users, provide a __libc_dn_skipname alias, and keep __dn_skipname
as a pure compatibility symbol.
__dn_skipname@GLIBC_2.0 was moved using the script, and
dn_skipname@@GLIBC_2.34 was added using make update-all-abi.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat it to GNU style.
dn_comp is used in various programs, so keep it as a non-deprecated
symbol. Switch to dn_comp (not __dn_comp) for the ABI name. There
are no internal users, so interposition is not a problem.
The __dn_comp symbol was moved with scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py
--no-new-version. dn_comp@@GLIBC_2.34 was added with
make update-all-abi.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat to GNU style.
This switches back to the dn_expand name for the ABI symbol and turns
__dn_expand into a compatibility symbol. With the improved namespace
management in current glibc, it is no longer necessary to use a
private namespace symbol. To avoid old code binding to a
GLIBC_PRIVATE symbol by accident, use __libc_dn_expand for the
internal symbol name.
The symbols dn_expand, __dnexpand were moved using
scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py, followed by an adjustment to make
dn_expand the only GLIBC_2.34 symbol.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat to GNU style.
The symbol was moved using scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat to GNU style, and eliminate the labellen function.
The symbol was moved using scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat to GNU style, and eliminate the digits variable.
The symbol was moved using scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat to GNU style. Check for negative error returns
(instead of -1).
The symbol was moved using scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
And reformat to GNU style. Avoid out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic.
This also results in a fix of bug 28091 due to the additional packet
length checks.
The symbol was moved using scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Reformat to GNU style. Avoid out-of-bounds buffer arithmetic.
Eliminate the labellen function.
The symbol was moved using scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Reformat to GNU style. Avoid out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic
(e.g., use eom - dn < 2 instead of dn + 1 >= eom). Inline the
labellen function and fold the compression pointer check into
the length check (l >= 64). Assume ASCII encoding.
The symbol was moved using scripts/move-symbol-to-libc.py.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The constant PTHREAD_STACK_MIN may be too small for some processors.
Rename _SC_SIGSTKSZ_SOURCE to _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE. When
_DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, define
PTHREAD_STACK_MIN to sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN) which is changed
to MIN (PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)).
Consolidate <bits/local_lim.h> with <bits/pthread_stack_min.h> to
provide a constant target specific PTHREAD_STACK_MIN value.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This patch adds a way to close a range of file descriptors on
posix_spawn as a new file action. The API is similar to the one
provided by Solaris 11 [1], where the file action causes the all open
file descriptors greater than or equal to input on to be closed when
the new process is spawned.
The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np is safe to be
implemented by iterating over /proc/self/fd, since the Linux spawni.c
helper process does not use CLONE_FILES, so its has own file descriptor
table and any failure (in /proc operation) aborts the process creation
and returns an error to the caller.
I am aware that this file action might be redundant to the current
approach of POSIX in promoting O_CLOEXEC in more interfaces. However
O_CLOEXEC is still not the default and for some specific usages, the
caller needs to close all possible file descriptors to avoid them
leaking. Some examples are CPython (discussed in BZ#10353) and OpenJDK
jspawnhelper [2] (where OpenJDK spawns a helper process to exactly
closes all file descriptors). Most likely any environment which calls
functions that might open file descriptor under the hood and aim to use
posix_spawn might face the same requirement.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu on kernel 5.11 and 4.15.
[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36874/posix-spawn-file-actions-addclosefrom-np-3c.html
[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c#L82
