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@@ -863,3 +863,55 @@ header compatibility improvements:
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- additional flags for poll, epoll, inotify, timerfd, timex, dlfcn
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- register names in signal.h/ucontext.h for x86
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- ipc.h ipc_perm nonstandard struct field name compatibility improve
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+0.9.10 release notes
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+new features:
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+- getifaddrs
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+- pthread_getattr_np (widely used by garbage collectors)
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+- mkostemps, mkostemp, mkstemps functions (mkostemp is future-POSIX)
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+- strcasestr and strverscmp (previously stubs)
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+improvements:
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+- major performance improvements in mbtowc
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+- avoid filling caller-provided thread stacks with large TLS
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+- debloat unnecessary static buffers
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+- robust posix_spawn based on CLONE_VM instead of vfork
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+- new system() and popen() based on posix_spawn
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+- better strerror strings
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+- further emulation of atomic close-on-exec/nonblock options for old kernels
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+- provide macro constants for new-ish kernel features
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+compatibility:
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+- several nonstandard but widely-available pwd/grp/shadow functions
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+- program_invocation_[short_]name
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+- re-added useconds_t type used by some programs
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+- some legacy arpa headers
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+- dn_skipname function (legacy resolver API)
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+- additional ABI aliases for supporting glibc-linked libraries/binaries
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+general bugs fixed:
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+- stale locks and bogus munmap call when pthread_create fails
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+- uninitialized argument to munmap when dynlink load_library fails
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+- incorrect error returns in gethostby*_r
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+- memory leak in gethostbyname family
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+- blank ai_canonname in getaddrinfo for non-CNAME records
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+- undefined HZ macro in scsi/sg.h
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+- wrong return value for wmemmove on forward-copy
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+- namespace conformance in strings.h
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+- various utmp.h bugs
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+- unnecessary DT_SONAME in libc.so caused problems on some systems
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+- multiple bugs in syslog, some possibly dangerous
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+- non-functional setpriority function
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+- slight mishandling of 0xf5 byte in UTF-8 decoder
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+- misaligned memory accesses in mbsrtowcs
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+arch-specific bugs fixed:
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+- crash in shared library loading on arm
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+- missing __aeabi_atexit needed by arm eabi
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+- wrong float_t definition on x86_64
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+- various low-impact type size/alignment mismatches in some headers
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+- epoll struct alignment wrong on non-x86[_64] archs
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+- broken pipe2 fallback code on mips with old kernels
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Rich Felker