From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3683 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Current status: important changes since 0.9.11 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:12:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20130719161234.GA8335@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374250367 17963 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2013 16:12:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:12:47 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3687-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Jul 19 18:12:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0DIW-0005dx-I9 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:12:48 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 28398 invoked by uid 550); 19 Jul 2013 16:12:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 28388 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2013 16:12:47 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3683 Archived-At: New features: - Zoneinfo time zone support - PIE support on arm - Sub-archs for endian and float abi variants (mipsel, armhf, etc.) - Better support for non-root installs of dynamic linker - Make popen/posix_spawn work on qemu app-level emulation (working around a difficult-to-fix qemu bug) Bugs fixed: - Missing close-on-exec flags (possible fd leaks in threaded programs) - Failure of make install to install bits headers in some circumstances - Invalid phdr pointers passed back from dl_iterate_phdr - Broken static-linked TLS on arm, mips, and powerpc - Integer overflows in date/time conversion I'd still like to get a couple more things in before making a release, especially the symlink direction (this issue still needs discussion) and Andre's work on ARM-optimized memcpy (should we go with the C version or the originally-proposed asm?). The CPU affinity stuff is also still a possible candidate to make it in. Oh, and the new crt1.c idea could probably go in too, even though it won't be used much yet except possibly adding PIE support on mips, powerpc, and microblaze. Rich