From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5574 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: musl firsts Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:04:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20140724000405.GA21561@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 1406160265 779 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2014 00:04:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:04:25 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-5579-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Jul 24 02:04:19 2014 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 1XA6WA-0005sa-QQ for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:04:18 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17630 invoked by uid 550); 24 Jul 2014 00:04:18 -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 17619 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 00:04:17 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5574 Archived-At: Random fun list I thought we could compile for promotional material (maybe use in future talks, website, etc.): features that musl had before any of the competitors. A few to start it off, in roughly chronological order: - TCB shadow passwords - Bcrypt in libc crypt - Safe and working thread cancellation - Correctly-rounded sqrt on 32-bit x86 - AS-safe and fail-safe dynamic TLS - VSDO on 32-bit x86 - Link-local address scope ids in hosts file - Using link-local addresses for nameservers in resolv.conf - OpenRISC 1000 (or1k) port in upstream I can think of a lot of smaller things too that are more like bugfixes and probably not worth mentioning, like AS-safety of various functions that are required to be AS-safe but that are broken in most libcs. Additions to the list are welcome. Rich