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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-10-21 15:29:52 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-10-21 15:29:52 +0000
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Update.
1998-10-21 14:38  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysdep.h (INLINE_SYSCALL): New macro.  Simply call
	__syscall_* function.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aio_sigqueue.c: Use INLINE_SYSCALL instead
	of calling __syscall_* function.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fxstat.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fxstat64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpriority.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/lxstat.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/lxstat64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pread.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pread64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptrace.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pwrite.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pwrite64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readv.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/reboot.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/siglist.h: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigqueue.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigtimedwait.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigwaitinfo.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sysctl.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ustat.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/writev.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xmknod.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xstat.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xstat64.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/chown.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getgroups.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setfsgid.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setfsuid.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setgid.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setgroups.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setresgid.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setresuid.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setuid.c: Likewise.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sysdep.h: Define INLINE_SYSCALL using
	inline assembler.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/syscalls.list: Remove various
	__syscall_* definitions.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Move various __syscall_*
	definitions to...
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: ...here...
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/syscalls.list: ...and here...
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/syscalls.list: ...and here...
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: ...and here...
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: ...and here...
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/syscalls.list: ...and here...
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: ...and here.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/Makefile [subdir=misc]
	(sysdep_routines): Remove s_pread64 and s_pwrite64.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pread.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pread64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pwrite.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/pwrite64.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/s_pread64.S: Removed.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/s_pwrite64.S: Removed.

1998-10-21  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/siglist.h: Fix some typos in these files
	and bring them in synch.
	* sysdeps/unix/siglist.c: Likewise.
	Reported by Vladimir Michl <michlv@risc.upol.cz> [PR libc/832].

1998-10-20  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setresuid.c: Allow -1 as arguments.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setresgid.c: Likewise.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setreuid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setregid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/setreuid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/setregid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setreuid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/setregid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/setreuid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/setregid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/syscalls.list: Add s_setreuid and
	s_setregid.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/syscalls.list: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/syscalls.list: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/syscalls.list: Likewise.

1998-10-20  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sunrpc/rpc_main.c (close_output, close_input): New functions.
	(c_output, h_output, s_output, l_output, t_output, svc_output,
	clnt_output, mkfile_output): Call them at the end.

1998-10-19  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

	* db/Makefile (LDFLAGS-db1.so): New variable, to avoid duplicating
	link command.

1998-10-18  Zack Weinberg  <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>

	* sysdeps/unix/opendir.c: Check at runtime for kernel support for
	O_DIRECTORY.

1998-10-20  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/setresuid.c (__setresuid): Fix
	argument types.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8794dfc9b1..15ef2766e7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -61,24 +61,26 @@ Version 2.1
   Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements.  Under
   Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
 
-				user	system	wall
+				  user	system	   wall
 
-    using local files		12.19s	 6.88s	22.91s
+    using local files		12.19s	 6.88s	 22.91s
 
-    using NIS			13.92s	 8.91s	26.34s
+    using NIS			13.92s	 8.91s	 26.34s
 
-    using NIS & nscd		10.37s	 7.34s	25.30s
+    using NIS & nscd		10.37s	 7.34s	 25.30s
 
-    using NIS & old nscd [1]	13.83s	 8.32s	29.60s
+    using NIS+			27.57s	30.37s  640.46s
+
+    using NIS+ & nscd           10.25s   7.83s   26.51s
+
+    using NIS & old nscd [1]	13.83s	 8.32s	 29.60s
 
-  When NIS+ is used instead of NIS the benefit from using nscd is much bigger.
   Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
   It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
-  horribly slow.  When using nscd unpacking is now even faster than using
-  NIS.
+  horribly slow.
 
-  [1] The old nscd implementation is not anymore available since it was
-  distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98.
+  [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
+  distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
 
 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.