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@@ -1082,3 +1082,63 @@ other improvements:
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- wait.h as a compatibility alias for sys/wait.h
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- various header improvements
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- support for runtime-variable page size on archs that need it (mainly mips)
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+0.9.15 release notes
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+new features:
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+- support for mixing IPv4 and v6 nameserver addresses in resolv.conf
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+- RFC 3678 multicast structures/macros in netinet/in.h
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+- putspent and fgetspent functions (shadow password API)
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+- timef function (obsolete, removed in POSIX 2008)
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+- fanotify syscalls (Linux-specific feature)
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+- semtimedop syscall (Linux-specific sysvipc extension)
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+- quotactl syscall and header (filesystem quotas support)
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+- drem and finite functions (obsolete BSD functions)
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+- getloadavg function (non-standard)
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+- herror function (non-standard and obsolete)
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+- libc.so now stores and prints its version information
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+- expose constants for new Linux features including O_TMPFILE
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+- implement FNM_LEADING_DIR option to fnmatch (GNU extension)
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+- posix_close function (accepted for inclusion in next POSIX issue)
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+bugs fixed:
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+- buffer overflow in mbsrtowcs
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+- clobbering of gr_name in getgrnam_r and getgrgid_r
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+- execle ignoring the environment argument
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+- setenv crash on malloc failure
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+- out-of-bounds access in fnmatch with FNM_PATHNAME and certain patterns
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+- failure of malloc to set errno when failing to extend heap
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+- incorrect errno value from getcwd with zero size
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+- spurious failure in faccessat with AT_EACCESS flag with suid/sgid programs
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+- several fd leaks due to missing close-on-exec flag
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+- misspellings/typos in macro names in several headers
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+- incorrect failure return value in inet_pton
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+- various numeric ip address parsing and validation fixes
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+- namespace conformance issues in several headers
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+- minor header issues
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+- zombie processes left by faccessat with AT_EACCESS
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+- timezone file parser failing/crashing on 64-bit archs
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+- hang in localtime with near-overflowing time_t values on 64-bit archs
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+- timezone path search was only trying first path
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+- incorrect handling of excessive-length TZ environment strings
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+- timezone file loading was wrongly enforcing O_NOFOLLOW/rejecting symlinks
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+- iswspace was wrongly returning true for the null character
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+- various bugs in wordexp
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+- putgrent could write corrupt lines after write failures
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+- dn_expand misinterpreted in-packet offsets greater than 255
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+- spurious strftime/wcsftime failure on len+1==bufsize case
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+- incorrect underflow flag in fma corner cases
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+- log*(0) wrongly returned +inf in downward-rounding mode
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+- failure of fchmod, fstat, fchdir, and fchown to produce EBADF
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+arch-specific bugs fixed:
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+- i386: failure of fesetround to set sse rounding mode
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+- i386: floating point limit constants misinterpreted due to excess precision
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+- powerpc: broken thread pointer access when compiled with clang
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+- microblaze: dynamic linker entry point code possibly clobbering argv
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+strict conformance issues:
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+- NULL definition re-aligned with POSIX (requires (void *) cast)
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+- alignment of math.h is* comparison functions with C11 annex F requirements
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Rich Felker