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| author | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2021-03-10 12:26:31 -0300 |
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| committer | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2021-07-08 14:08:13 -0300 |
| commit | 286286283e9bdc7ef894306e2dbcf4c115b97ba2 (patch) | |
| tree | 00fa61df0e6e6093c337bc59a6c5fdd914d9fe6f /NEWS | |
| parent | ae8c243d2473bdfc3c0f9c6b46e6dffb5a28725c (diff) | |
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linux: Add close_range
It was added on Linux 5.9 (278a5fbaed89) with CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC added on 5.11 (582f1fb6b721f). Although FreeBSD has added the same syscall, this only adds the symbol on Linux ports. This syscall is required to provided a fail-safe way to implement the closefrom symbol (BZ #10353). Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu on kernel 5.11 and 4.15.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8e72946c3f..be04b217fe 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ Major new features: to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function is currently a GNU extension. +* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently + closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9). + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs |