From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3702 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: idunham@lavabit.com Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Current status: important changes since 0.9.11 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:57:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20130722045754.GA2296@Caracal> References: <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 1374469112 23180 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2013 04:58:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:58:32 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3706-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Jul 22 06:58:35 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 1V18Ch-0007Cr-0R for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 06:58:35 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 23964 invoked by uid 550); 22 Jul 2013 04:58:34 -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 23956 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2013 04:58:34 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=4uqyJQMOivrJAq1cnk9R7jtVFHXzG/p/nXp7B3XwJthYGOkTaMPAKFn5Fi6HBlkZPA05Ioso6d7kKLpsnLhpcus8V7tnxhHtNT2MAkBqySW5z0b2vElsHVemdEo6A4rc8UvkjDp69eDM3mIuPwYgqI4Fvp3RcosznoeBPb0Dnyk=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130719161234.GA8335@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3702 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:12:34PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > 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) Nice. > > 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) Would this work? $(DESTDIR)$(LDSO_PATHNAME): lib/libc.so install -D -m 755 $< $@ && \ ln -s $(LDSO_PATHNAME) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libc.so || \ install -D -m 755 $< $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libc.so > 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 Thanks, Isaac Dunham