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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rich Felker
fe61a7aa53 rework mechanism for posix_spawnp calling posix_spawn
previously, a common __posix_spawnx backend was used that accepted an
additional argument for the execve variant to call in the child. this
moderately bloated up the posix_spawn function, shuffling arguments
between stack and/or registers to call a 7-argument function from a
6-argument one.

instead, tuck the exec function pointer in an unused part of the
(large) pthread_spawnattr_t structure, and have posix_spawnp duplicate
the attributes and fill in a pointer to __execvpe. the net code size
change is minimal, but the weight is shifted to the "heavier" function
which already pulls in more dependencies.

as a bonus, we get rid of an external symbol (__posix_spawnx) that had
no really good place for a declaration because it shouldn't have
existed to begin with.
2018-09-12 14:34:32 -04:00
Rich Felker
77e895dcfa add no-op POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK to spawn.h
the bit is reserved anyway for ABI-compat reasons; this documents it
and makes it so we can have posix_spawnattr_setflags check for flag
validity without hard-coding an anonymous bit value.
2017-04-22 20:40:09 -04:00
Rich Felker
bb439bb171 implement new posix_spawn flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
this functionality has been adopted for inclusion in the next issue of
POSIX as the result of Austin Group issue #1044.

based on patch by Daurnimator.
2017-04-22 18:39:40 -04:00
Rich Felker
1c322f2f0a fix some restrict-qualifier mismatches in newly added interfaces
these should have little/no practical impact but they're needed for
strict conformance.
2012-11-27 09:44:30 -05:00
Rich Felker
1e21e78bf7 add support for thread scheduling (POSIX TPS option)
linux's sched_* syscalls actually implement the TPS (thread
scheduling) functionality, not the PS (process scheduling)
functionality which the sched_* functions are supposed to have.
omitting support for the PS option (and having the sched_* interfaces
fail with ENOSYS rather than omitting them, since some broken software
assumes they exist) seems to be the only conforming way to do this on
linux.
2012-11-11 15:38:04 -05:00
Rich Felker
455f96857f remove all remaining redundant __restrict/__inline/_Noreturn defs 2012-09-08 17:14:52 -04:00
Rich Felker
400c5e5c83 use restrict everywhere it's required by c99 and/or posix 2008
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.
2012-09-06 22:44:55 -04:00
Rich Felker
13cd969552 fix various errors in function signatures/prototypes found by nsz 2011-09-13 21:09:35 -04:00
Rich Felker
c97f0d998c initial implementation of posix_spawn
file actions are not yet implemented, but everything else should be
mostly complete and roughly correct.
2011-05-28 18:36:30 -04:00