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2018-09-12move and deduplicate declarations of __procfdname to make it checkableRich Felker-2/+0
syscall.h was chosen as the header to declare it, since its intended usage is alongside syscalls as a fallback for operations the direct syscall does not support.
2017-05-27fix fchown fallback on arches without chown(2)Samuel Holland-1/+1
The flags argument was missing, causing uninitalized data to be passed to fchownat(2). The correct value of flags should match the fallback for chown(3).
2014-05-29support linux kernel apis (new archs) with old syscalls removedRich Felker-0/+5
such archs are expected to omit definitions of the SYS_* macros for syscalls their kernels lack from arch/$ARCH/bits/syscall.h. the preprocessor is then able to select the an appropriate implementation for affected functions. two basic strategies are used on a case-by-case basis: where the old syscalls correspond to deprecated library-level functions, the deprecated functions have been converted to wrappers for the modern function, and the modern function has fallback code (omitted at the preprocessor level on new archs) to make use of the old syscalls if the new syscall fails with ENOSYS. this also improves functionality on older kernels and eliminates the incentive to program with deprecated library-level functions for the sake of compatibility with older kernels. in other situations where the old syscalls correspond to library-level functions which are not deprecated but merely lack some new features, such as the *at functions, the old syscalls are still used on archs which support them. this may change at some point in the future if or when fallback code is added to the new functions to make them usable (possibly with reduced functionality) on old kernels.
2013-12-19fix failure of fchmod, fstat, fchdir, and fchown to produce EBADFRich Felker-1/+3
the workaround/fallback code for supporting O_PATH file descriptors when the kernel lacks support for performing these operations on them caused EBADF to get replaced by ENOENT (due to missing entry in /proc/self/fd). this is unlikely to affect real-world code (calls that might yield EBADF are generally unsafe, especially in library code) but it was breaking some test cases. the fix I've applied is something of a tradeoff: it adds one syscall to these operations on kernels where the workaround is needed. the alternative would be to catch ENOENT from the /proc lookup and translate it to EBADF, but I want to avoid doing that in the interest of not touching/depending on /proc at all in these functions as long as the kernel correctly supports the operations. this is following the general principle of isolating hacks to code paths that are taken on broken systems, and keeping the code for correct systems completely hack-free.
2013-08-02make fchdir, fchmod, fchown, and fstat support O_PATH file descriptorsRich Felker-1/+9
on newer kernels, fchdir and fstat work anyway. this same fix should be applied to any other syscalls that are similarly affected. with this change, the current definitions of O_SEARCH and O_EXEC as O_PATH are mostly conforming to POSIX requirements. the main remaining issue is that O_NOFOLLOW has different semantics.
2011-03-20global cleanup to use the new syscall interfaceRich Felker-1/+1
2011-02-13cleaning up syscalls in preparation for x86_64 portRich Felker-1/+1
- hide all the legacy xxxxxx32 name cruft in syscall.h so the actual source files can be clean and uniform across all archs. - cleanup llseek/lseek and mmap2/mmap handling for 32/64 bit systems - alternate implementation for nice if the target lacks nice syscall
2011-02-12initial check-in, version 0.5.0v0.5.0Rich Felker-0/+7