I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
Now that Hurd implementis both close_range and closefrom (f2c996597d),
we can make close_range() a base ABI, and make the default closefrom()
implementation on top of close_range().
The generic closefrom() implementation based on __getdtablesize() is
moved to generic close_range(). On Linux it will be overriden by
the auto-generation syscall while on Hurd it will be a system specific
implementation.
The closefrom() now calls close_range() and __closefrom_fallback().
Since on Hurd close_range() does not fail, __closefrom_fallback() is an
empty static inline function set by__ASSUME_CLOSE_RANGE.
The __ASSUME_CLOSE_RANGE also allows optimize Linux
__closefrom_fallback() implementation when --enable-kernel=5.9 or
higher is used.
Finally the Linux specific tst-close_range.c is moved to io and
enabled as default. The Linuxism and CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE are
guarded so it can be built for Hurd (I have not actually test it).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, and with a i686-gnu
build.
The function closes all open file descriptors greater than or equal to
input argument. Negative values are clamped to 0, i.e, it will close
all file descriptors.
As indicated by the bug report, this is a common symbol provided by
different systems (Solaris, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD) and, although
its has inherent issues with not taking in consideration internal libc
file descriptors (such as syslog), this is also a common feature used
in multiple projects [1][2][3][4][5].
The Linux fallback implementation iterates over /proc and close all
file descriptors sequentially. Although it was raised the questioning
whether getdents on /proc/self/fd might return disjointed entries
when file descriptor are closed; it does not seems the case on my
testing on multiple kernel (v4.18, v5.4, v5.9) and the same strategy
is used on different projects [1][2][3][5].
Also, the interface is set a fail-safe meaning that a failure in the
fallback results in a process abort.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu on kernel 5.11 and 4.15.
[1] 5238e95759/src/basic/fd-util.c (L217)
[2] ddf4b77e11/src/lxc/start.c (L236)
[3] 9e4f2f3a6b/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c (L220)
[4] 5f47c0613e/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs (L303-L308)
[5] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c#L82
