This patch updates various miscellaneous files we take from upstream
GNU sources (texinfo.texi, config.guess, config.sub - various others
haven't changed upstream since we last updated them) to their current
upstream versions.
Tested x86_64.
* manual/texinfo.tex: Update to version 2013-11-26.10 with
trailing whitespace removed.
* scripts/config.guess: Update to version 2013-11-29.
* scripts/config.sub: Update to version 2013-10-01.
This patch adds a feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE to enable the
default set of header declarations.
The intention is: if _DEFAULT_SOURCE is not used there is no change to
the set of __USE_* macros glibc defines; if it's used on its own, and
without compiler options such as -std=c99 that define __STRICT_ANSI__,
again, there is no change; if it's used together with the macros it
approximately (i.e., apart from __USE_POSIX_IMPLICITLY) implies
(-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L), again, there
is no change. Otherwise, it causes the relevant features to be
enabled, even if __STRICT_ANSI__, or another feature test macro, would
cause them to be disabled.
This macro deliberately bundles the POSIX.1-2008 (non-X/Open)
functionality with the BSD/SVID/"misc" functionality, rather than
defining a macro that gives just the latter, as many of the header
cleanups resulting from removing _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE support
are only possible when BSD/SVID/"misc" is always bundled with
POSIX.1-2008.
Tested x86_64.
* include/features.h: Update comment documenting feature test
macros. Mention _DEFAULT_SOURCE in comment.
[_GNU_SOURCE] (_DEFAULT_SOURCE): Undefine and redefine.
[_DEFAULT_SOURCE]: Undefine and redefine _DEFAULT_SOURCE,
_BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE.
[!__STRICT_ANSI__ && !_ISOC99_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE &&
!_POSIX_C_SOURCE && !_XOPEN_SOURCE && !_BSD_SOURCE &&
!_SVID_SOURCE]: Likewise.
[_DEFAULT_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE && !_POSIX_C_SOURCE]
(__USE_POSIX_IMPLICITLY): Define.
[_DEFAULT_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE && !_POSIX_C_SOURCE]
(_POSIX_SOURCE): Undefine and redefine.
[_DEFAULT_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE && !_POSIX_C_SOURCE]
(_POSIX_C_SOURCE): Likewise.
* manual/creature.texi (_DEFAULT_SOURCE): Document.
(Feature Test Macros): Update documentation of default features.
The commit d136c6dc resulted in menu text for the "Top" node being added
to the INSTALL file on regeneration. As the full menu is not displayed
in the plain text file anyway, suppress the menu section completely to
avoid the additional text.
Also regenerate the INSTALL file to commit a small formatting change
introduced in the same commit.
[BZ 15846] As discussed in the recent thread on my $EXEC_ORIGIN patch
and in BZ 15846, getauxval() presently has no unambiguous way of
reporting an error condition. It currently returns zero on error, but
this may also be a valid result for some auxv entries. As there is no
clear invalid result for all current and future auxv entries, this patch
sets errno (following a suggestion in the BZ entry).
This version of the patch also adds documentation and tests for the
value-not-found conditions in getauxval().
This is needed for version-3 tz-format files; it supports time
stamps past 2037 for America/Godthab (the only entry in the tz
database for which this change is relevant).
* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): Document transition times
from -167:59:59 through -00:00:01.
* time/tzset.c (tz_rule): Time of day is now signed.
(__tzset_parse_tz): Parse negative time of day.
* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): Document transition times from
25:00:00 through 167:59:59. These are already supported, and this
support will help with version-3 tz-format files.
ChangeLog:
2013-12-16 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* manual/memory.texi (Malloc Examples): Mention aligned_alloc.
(Aligned Memory Blocks): Add documentation for aligned_alloc
and suggest it as an alternative to posix_memalign.
(Hooks for Malloc): Document __memalign_hook is also called
for aligned_alloc. (Summary of Malloc): Add summary for
aligned alloc. Document __memalign_hook is also called
for aligned_alloc.
The current documentation suggests using memalign and valloc which
are now considered obsolete, so suggest using posix_memalign instead.
Also document the possible error return and errno values for memalign
and posix_memalign and improve documentation of __memalign_hook.
ChangeLog:
2013-12-16 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* manual/memory.texi (Malloc Examples): Clarify default
alignment documentation. Suggest posix_memalign rather
than memalign or valloc.
(Aligned Memory Blocks): Remove suggestion to use memalign
or valloc. Remove obsolete comment about BSD.
Document memalign errno values and mark the function obsolete.
Document posix_memalign returned error codes. Mark valloc
as obsolete. (Hooks for Malloc): __memalign_hook is also
called for posix_memalign and valloc.
(Summary of Malloc): Add posix_memalign to function summary.
__memalign_hook is also called for posix_memalign and valloc.
The register keyword doesn't add any information to the examples
and is not useful for modern compilers.
ChangeLog:
2013-11-06 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* manual/memory.texi (Malloc Examples): Remove register
keyword from examples.
Autoconf has been deprecating configure.in for quite a long time.
Rename all our configure.in and preconfigure.in files to .ac.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
The Secure RPC implementation in glibc uses DES encryption
during authentication of the user. This use of DES means
that anyone using Sun RPC will likely not be compliant
with FIPS 140-2 which forbids the use of DES.
One solution to the compliance issue is to disable AUTH_DES
and AUTH_KERB, both use DES, when in FIPS compliance mode.
This is not a good idea because it disables all of the even
mildly secure methods of authentication allowing only plain
text methods.
Instead we leave AUTH_DES and AUTH_KERB enabled in FIPS
compliance mode and document the compliance issue in the
manual. FIPS allows this, that is to say that if you can't
fix it you must document the non-compliance.
This commit adds documentation to that effect in the
"DES encryption and password handling" section of the
manual.
Add systemtap probes to various slow paths in libm so that application
developers may use systemtap to find out if their applications are
hitting these slow paths. We have added probes for pow, exp, log,
tan, atan and atan2.
for ChangeLog
* malloc/arena.c (new_heap): New memory_heap_new probe.
(grow_heap): New memory_heap_more probe.
(shrink_heap): New memory_heap_less probe.
(heap_trim): New memory_heap_free probe.
* malloc/malloc.c (sysmalloc): New memory_sbrk_more probe.
(systrim): New memory_sbrk_less probe.
* manual/probes.texi: Document them.
The end of the "Parsing of Floats" subsection currently reads:
The GNU C Library also provides '_l' versions of these functions,
which take an additional argument, the locale to use in conversion.
*Note Parsing of Integers::.
Split the final note as it is unrelated to the above comment and
reference it with "See also" instead.
The pt-chown binary is discussed in the "Running make install" section
without clarification of the needed configure option. Clarify this
and simplfy the discription which is already covered in the "Configuring
and compiling" section.
The helper binary pt_chown tricked into granting access to another
user's pseudo-terminal.
Pre-conditions for the attack:
* Attacker with local user account
* Kernel with FUSE support
* "user_allow_other" in /etc/fuse.conf
* Victim with allocated slave in /dev/pts
Using the setuid installed pt_chown and a weak check on whether a file
descriptor is a tty, an attacker could fake a pty check using FUSE and
trick pt_chown to grant ownership of a pty descriptor that the current
user does not own. It cannot access /dev/pts/ptmx however.
In most modern distributions pt_chown is not needed because devpts
is enabled by default. The fix for this CVE is to disable building
and using pt_chown by default. We still provide a configure option
to enable hte use of pt_chown but distributions do so at their own
risk.
It is the magnitude of the return value which lies
in [0.5, 1), not the return value itself.
---
2013-05-28 Ben North <ben@redfrontdoor.org>
* manual/arith.texi (frexp): It is the magnitude of the return
value which lies in [0.5, 1), not the return value itself.
Rewrite the first paragraph to talk about users not humans,
and to use correct English.
Clarify that it is the mapping of messages to IDs that
impacts the design of the message translation API.
---
2013-05-07 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* manual/message.texi (Message Translation): Talk about users.
Message to key mapping impacts design.
This adds the base chapter for POSIX threads and also documentation
for thread-specific data, along with a note on its interaction with
C++11 thread_local variables.
Surround the "Detailed Node Listing" section of the info page menu with
@detailmenu flags to avoid confusing texinfo. Resolves a large number
of warnings printed by texinfo-5.0.
The glob flags page reads as if this section is comprehensive when it
is not -- a lot of GNU extensions exist. Point that out in the intro.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
The More Flags for Globbing section indirectly mentions gl_flags when
talking about GLOB_MAGCHAR. Mention it explicitly when covering the
glob_t types.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Putting @cartouche inside of @smallexample does not work with HTML output
as the former produces a <table> while the latter produces a <pre>. You
cannot nest a <table> in a <pre> as the contents are no longer formatted.
Since it's entirely unnecessary, and none of the other examples do this,
just drop the cartouche.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
[BZ #13743]
A new class of installed headers has been documented for low-level
platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
function to provide time base register access (__ppc_get_timebase). This
is required for applications that measure time at high frequencies with
high precision that can't afford a syscall.
[BZ #13750]
Do not build manual anymore in the source dir. Also clean up the
Makefile and remove rules that have been used previously
when we had a stand-alone Makefile which was obsoleted recently.
2012-05-14 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* manual/string.texi (Copying and Concatenation): Add missing
variable in concat example.
Reported by David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>.
[BZ #2636]
* manual/time.texi (Processor Time): Return type of times is
elapsed real time since an arbitrary point in the past.
(CPU Time): Move CLK_TCK from here...
(Processor Time): ...to here. Correct description.
* manual/conf.texi (Constants for Sysconf): Correct description of
_SC_CLK_TCK.
We use sourceware.org consistently to reference the
server that RedHat provides for community services
to open-source projects.
[BZ # 13963]
* manual/install.texi: Use sourceware.org.
