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1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests. * misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests. 1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle NDIGIT <= 0. 1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc) if the programs weren't built. 1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can. * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise. 1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not _STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>. * sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added. * io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't exist. * sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file. 1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say that the return value from snprintf() does not count the terminating NUL as a character. 1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour, add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>. 1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here. (postclean): New variable. (clean): Remove makefile fragments here. (realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make. (generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out. * Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if avoid-generated is set. (postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk. ($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is set. * Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if avoid-generated is set. (common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version). (generated): Add versioned libraries. (common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a. * csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h. * db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o. * elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and $(rtld-installed-name). (others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs. * malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace. * po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more. * sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen. * sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h, syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h. (common-generated): Add s-proto.d. (postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls. * localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files. (generated): Add test-input and test-output. (generated-dirs): Add all the dirs. 1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New variables. 1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups. 1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug. From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>. * resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto. 1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc. Suggested by debian/sparc porters. 1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests for ecvt and fcvt. 1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and __fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy. * signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined. 1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly. 1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target directory first and ignore install error. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract 128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty. 1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all syscalls.list's. 1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add getresuid and getresgid. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add s_getres[ug]id. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise. 1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>. 1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments. * sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr. * sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto. 1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or __USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98. 1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs): Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data. 1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home> * Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common. * Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons. * libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols. * elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.* version symbols. * include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version): Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions. * sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in the weak symbol list. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs): Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise. 1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> * sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen. 1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>. 1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown. 1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable. * manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se. 1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description of inet_network. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel. (grantpt): Delete superfluous cast. 1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install. (elf/ldso_install): New target. * elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change of 1998-01-06. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for constant expressions. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h" for __nss_configure_lookup. (output_hostent): Remove unused variable. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string. 1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
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GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1998-02-09
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Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end for copying conditions.
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Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to
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<bugs@gnu.org>. Questions and suggestions should be send to
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<bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>.
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Version 2.1
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* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
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conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
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adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
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but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
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struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
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a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
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* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
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model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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symbol level.
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* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
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command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
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numbers.
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* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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* the new header <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides information and
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interfaces for the available integer types.
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* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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functions from ISO C 9X.
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* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
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real valued functions.
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* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
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* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
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* Ulrich Drepper added character conversion functions.
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* Optimized string functions have been added.
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* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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Version 2.0.5
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* more bug fixes
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* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
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* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
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* rewrite of cbrt function
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* update of timezone data
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Version 2.0.4
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* more bug fixes
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Version 2.0.3
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* more bug fixes
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Version 2.0.2
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* more bug fixes
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* add atoll function
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* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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* fix math functions
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Version 2.0.1
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* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
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* dynamic loader preserves all registers
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* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
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the ELF dynamic loader.
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* support for parallel builds is improved
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Version 2.0
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* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
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must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
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`-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
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* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
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symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
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symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
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is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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`--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
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`--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
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the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
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less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
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files in the ELF format.
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* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
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Run `configure --help' to see the details.
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* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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(but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
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`--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
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`configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
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built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
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are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
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loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
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new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
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application of same name on other systems and it provides information
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about dynamically linked binaries.
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* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
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executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
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the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
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the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
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* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
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Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
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functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
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programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
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* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
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mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
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shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
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file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
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works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
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so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
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relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
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NSS services available.
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* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
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strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
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`unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
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* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
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strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
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respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
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printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
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`strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
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accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
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* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
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Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
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to compile the POSIX locale definition.
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* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
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now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
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collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
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* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
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various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
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wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
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and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
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* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
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It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
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by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
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* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
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`printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
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``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
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different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
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feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
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the header file <printf.h> for details.
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* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
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formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
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to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
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says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
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separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
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not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
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conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
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less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
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which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
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argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
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provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
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with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
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* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
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operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
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* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
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Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
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NSS scheme used in glibc.
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* The new function `malloc_find_object_address' finds the starting address
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of a malloc'd block, given any address within the block;
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`malloc_object_allocated_size' returns the size of an allocated block;
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and `malloc_walk' lets you walk through all allocated blocks. These can
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be useful for debugging; see <malloc.h> for the interfaces.
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* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
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* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
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`unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
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their use is discouraged.
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* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
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done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
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but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
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local time conventions of the countries of the world.
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* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
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see <dirent.h>.
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* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
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for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
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also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
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all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
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functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
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system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
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allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
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shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
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in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
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implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
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binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
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number generator.
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
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`random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
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string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
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* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
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on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
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using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
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* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
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to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
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dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
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* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
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for arithmetic and string handling.
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* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
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his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
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catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
|
||
|
||
* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
|
||
program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
|
||
creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
|
||
<nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
|
||
programs already written to use it.)
|
||
|
||
* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
|
||
constants.
|
||
|
||
* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
|
||
with 4.4 BSD.
|
||
|
||
* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
|
||
a given effective group ID.
|
||
|
||
* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
|
||
special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
|
||
`struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
|
||
`struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
|
||
|
||
* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
|
||
function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
|
||
canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
|
||
and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
|
||
doing the same thing.
|
||
|
||
* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
|
||
POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
|
||
|
||
* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
|
||
`clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
|
||
|
||
* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
|
||
|
||
* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
|
||
files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
|
||
types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
|
||
an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
|
||
`-ldb' to get these functions.
|
||
|
||
* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
|
||
space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
|
||
|
||
* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
|
||
number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
|
||
`strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
|
||
function.
|
||
|
||
* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
|
||
|
||
* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
|
||
provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
|
||
strings.
|
||
|
||
* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
|
||
and writing the utmp file.
|
||
|
||
* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
|
||
Thorsten Kukuk.
|
||
|
||
* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
|
||
completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
|
||
to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
|
||
|
||
* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
|
||
defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
|
||
|
||
* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
|
||
code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
|
||
specification.
|
||
|
||
* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
|
||
by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
|
||
The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
|
||
optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
|
||
|
||
* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
|
||
functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
|
||
salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
|
||
|
||
* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
|
||
`getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
|
||
to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
|
||
expression matcher.
|
||
|
||
* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
|
||
functionality.
|
||
|
||
* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
|
||
by Ulrich Drepper.
|
||
|
||
* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
|
||
|
||
* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
|
||
`isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
|
||
implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
|
||
|
||
Version 1.09
|
||
|
||
* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
|
||
|
||
* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
|
||
friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
|
||
|
||
* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
|
||
want to put themselves in the background.
|
||
|
||
* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
|
||
run without an operating system.
|
||
|
||
* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
|
||
long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
|
||
|
||
* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
|
||
routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
|
||
|
||
* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
|
||
|
||
* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
|
||
YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
|
||
have YP (aka NIS).
|
||
|
||
* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
|
||
conventions.
|
||
|
||
* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
|
||
$(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
|
||
|
||
Version 1.08
|
||
|
||
* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
|
||
RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
|
||
are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
|
||
|
||
* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
|
||
Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
|
||
|
||
* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
|
||
facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
|
||
|
||
* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
|
||
|
||
* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
|
||
|
||
* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
|
||
compatibility.
|
||
|
||
* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
|
||
the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
|
||
function (with versions of GCC that support this).
|
||
|
||
* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
|
||
|
||
* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
|
||
management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
|
||
`madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
|
||
|
||
* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
|
||
abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
|
||
an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
|
||
`mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
|
||
any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
|
||
on a block).
|
||
|
||
* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
|
||
system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
|
||
you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
|
||
native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
|
||
few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
|
||
cross-compiler.
|
||
|
||
* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
|
||
a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
|
||
|
||
Version 1.07
|
||
|
||
* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
|
||
running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
|
||
|
||
* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
|
||
to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
|
||
the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
|
||
|
||
* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
|
||
copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
|
||
address of the last character written.
|
||
|
||
* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
|
||
compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
|
||
|
||
* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
|
||
stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
|
||
|
||
* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
|
||
allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
|
||
you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
|
||
you dereference this pointer.
|
||
|
||
* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
|
||
NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
|
||
|
||
* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
|
||
for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
|
||
systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
|
||
`pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
|
||
|
||
* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
|
||
to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
|
||
use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
|
||
EAGAIN in every system call function.
|
||
|
||
Version 1.06
|
||
|
||
* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
|
||
`make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
|
||
`make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
|
||
in Emacs or the `info' program.
|
||
Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu.
|
||
|
||
* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
|
||
|
||
* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
|
||
|
||
* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
|
||
Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
|
||
|
||
* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
|
||
ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
|
||
|
||
* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
|
||
malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
|
||
|
||
* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
|
||
its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
|
||
overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
|
||
needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
|
||
pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
|
||
|
||
* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
|
||
to the error code in `errno'.
|
||
|
||
* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
|
||
or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
|
||
pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
|
||
malloc'd string.
|
||
|
||
* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
|
||
`FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
|
||
name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
|
||
|
||
* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
|
||
uniquely-named temporary file.
|
||
|
||
Version 1.05
|
||
|
||
* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
|
||
has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
|
||
precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
|
||
|
||
* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
|
||
characters.
|
||
|
||
* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
|
||
These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
|
||
|
||
* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
|
||
|
||
Version 1.04
|
||
|
||
* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
|
||
script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
|
||
packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
|
||
The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
|
||
|
||
* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
|
||
traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
|
||
it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
|
||
|
||
* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
|
||
MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
|
||
|
||
* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
|
||
Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
|
||
made itself into a shared library.
|
||
|
||
* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
|
||
(such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
|
||
|
||
* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
|
||
with limited length.
|
||
|
||
* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
|
||
|
||
* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
|
||
|
||
* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
|
||
|
||
* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
|
||
function for traversing a directory tree.
|
||
|
||
* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
|
||
The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
|
||
writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
|
||
formatted output directly to an obstack.
|
||
|
||
* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
|
||
cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
|
||
|
||
* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
|
||
|
||
* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
|
||
things to your strings.
|
||
|
||
* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
|
||
|
||
* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
|
||
These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
|
||
supporting those systems.
|
||
|
||
* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
|
||
the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
|
||
This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
|
||
configuration files.
|
||
|
||
* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
|
||
compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
|
||
|
||
* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
|
||
bcmp, bzero, and ffs.
|
||
|
||
* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
|
||
function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
|
||
significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
|
||
now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
|
||
of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
|
||
required storage is not available.
|
||
|
||
* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
|
||
provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
|
||
Because of the United States export restriction on DES implementations,
|
||
we are distributing this code separately from the rest of the C library.
|
||
There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is called
|
||
`glibc-VERSION-crypt.tar.Z', e.g. `glibc-1.04-crypt.tar.Z'. You can just
|
||
unpack the crypt distribution along with the rest of the C library and
|
||
build; you can also build the library without getting crypt. Users
|
||
outside the USA can get the crypt distribution via anonymous FTP from
|
||
ftp.uni-c.dk [129.142.6.74], or another archive site outside the U.S.
|
||
|
||
* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
|
||
latest files released from Berkeley.
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Copyright information:
|
||
|
||
Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|
||
|
||
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
|
||
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
|
||
copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
|
||
thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
|
||
|
||
Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
|
||
of this document, or of portions of it,
|
||
under the above conditions, provided also that they
|
||
carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
|
||
|
||
Local variables:
|
||
version-control: never
|
||
end:
|