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* work around linux bug in readlink syscall with zero buffer sizeRich Felker2020-11-231-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | linux fails with EINVAL when a zero buffer size is passed to the syscall. this is non-conforming because POSIX already defines EINVAL with a significantly different meaning: the target is not a symlink. since the request is semantically valid, patch it up by using a dummy buffer of length one, and truncating the return value to zero if it succeeds.
* support linux kernel apis (new archs) with old syscalls removedRich Felker2014-05-291-0/+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.
* use restrict everywhere it's required by c99 and/or posix 2008Rich Felker2012-09-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99 compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form [restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
* fix various errors in function signatures/prototypes found by nszRich Felker2011-09-131-1/+1
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* global cleanup to use the new syscall interfaceRich Felker2011-03-201-1/+1
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* initial check-in, version 0.5.0 v0.5.0Rich Felker2011-02-121-0/+7