Resource usage data is filled by the kernel only when wait4 returns a pid, i.e. a positive value. Commit 5850546e9669f793aab61dfc7c4f2c1ff35c4b29 introduced this bug, possibly because of copy-pasting from getrusage.
originally the namespace-infringing "large file support" interfaces were included as part of glibc-ABI-compat, with the intent that they not be used for linking, since our off_t is and always has been unconditionally 64-bit and since we usually do not aim to support nonstandard interfaces when there is an equivalent standard interface. unfortunately, having the symbols present and available for linking caused configure scripts to detect them and attempt to use them without declarations, producing all the expected ill effects that entails. as a result, commit 2dd8d5e1b8ba1118ff1782e96545cb8a2318592c was made to prevent this, using macros to redirect the LFS64 names to the standard names, conditional on _GNU_SOURCE or _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE. however, this has turned out to be a source of further problems, especially since g++ defines _GNU_SOURCE by default. in particular, the presence of these names as macros breaks a lot of valid code. this commit removes all the LFS64 symbols and replaces them with a mechanism in the dynamic linker symbol lookup failure path to retry with the spurious "64" removed from the symbol name. in the future, if/when the rest of glibc-ABI-compat is moved out of libc, this can be removed.
This is a part of the interface contract defined in the Linux man page (official for a Linux-specific interface) and asserted by test cases in the Linux Test Project (LTP).
a request for this behavior has been open for a long time. the motivation is that application code, particularly under some language runtimes designed around very-low-footprint coroutine type constructs, may be operating with extremely small stack sizes unsuitable for receiving signals, using a separate signal stack for any signals it might handle. progress on this was blocked at one point trying to determine whether the implementation is actually entitled to clobber the alt stack, but the phrasing "available to the implementation" in the POSIX spec for sigaltstack seems to make it clear that the application cannot rely on the contents of this memory to be preserved in the absence of signal delivery (on the abstract machine, excluding implementation-internal signals) and that we can therefore use it for delivery of signals that "don't exist" on the abstract machine. no change is made for SIGTIMER since it is always blocked when used, and accepted via sigwaitinfo rather than execution of the signal handler.
this is a Linux-specific function and not covered by POSIX's requirements for which interfaces are cancellation points, but glibc makes it one and existing software relies on it being one. at some point a review for similar functions that should be made cancellation points should be done.
this function is outside the scope of the standards, but logically should behave like the set*id functions whose effects are process-global.
this is a prerequisite for addition of other interfaces that use kernel tids, including futex and SIGEV_THREAD_ID. there is some ambiguity as to whether the semantic return type should be int or pid_t. either way, futex API imposes a contract that the values fit in int (excluding some upper reserved bits). glibc used pid_t, so in the interest of not having gratuitous mismatch (the underlying types are the same anyway), pid_t is used here as well. while conceptually this is a syscall, the copy stored in the thread structure is always valid in all contexts where it's valid to call libc functions, so it's used to avoid the syscall.
clock_adjtime always returns the current clock setting in struct timex, so it's always possible that the time64 version is needed.