Rich Felker [Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:22:52 +0000 (03:22 -0400)]
make non-waiting paths of sem_[timed]wait and pthread_join cancelable
per POSIX these functions are both cancellation points, so they must
act on any cancellation request which is pending prior to the call.
previously, only the code path where actual waiting took place could
act on cancellation.
Rich Felker [Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:50:38 +0000 (02:50 -0400)]
remove an extra layer of buffer copying in getnameinfo reverse dns
the outer getnameinfo function already has a properly-sized temporary
buffer for storing the reverse dns (ptr) result. there is no reason
for the callback to use a secondary buffer and copy it on success, and
doing so potentially expanded the impact of the dn_expand bug that was
fixed in commit
49d2c8c6bcf8c926e52c7f510033b6adc31355f5.
this change reduces the code size by a small amount, and also reduces
the run-time stack space requirements by about 256 bytes.
Rich Felker [Fri, 5 Sep 2014 02:21:17 +0000 (22:21 -0400)]
fix multiple stdio functions' behavior on zero-length operations
previously, fgets, fputs, fread, and fwrite completely omitted locking
and access to the FILE object when their arguments yielded a zero
length read or write operation independent of the FILE state. this
optimization was invalid; it wrongly skipped marking the stream as
byte-oriented (a C conformance bug) and exposed observably missing
synchronization (a POSIX conformance bug) where one of these functions
could wrongly complete despite another thread provably holding the
lock.
Rich Felker [Fri, 5 Sep 2014 01:37:13 +0000 (21:37 -0400)]
suppress null termination when fgets reads EOF with no data
the C standard requires that "the contents of the array remain
unchanged" in this case.
this patch also changes the behavior on read errors, but in that case
"the array contents are indeterminate", so the application cannot
inspect them anyway.
Szabolcs Nagy [Thu, 4 Sep 2014 16:29:16 +0000 (18:29 +0200)]
fix dn_expand empty name handling and offsets to 0
Empty name was rejected in dn_expand since commit
56b57f37a46dab432247bf29d96fcb11fbd02a6d
which is a regression as reported by Natanael Copa.
Furthermore if an offset pointer in a compressed name
pointed to a terminating 0 byte (instead of a label)
the returned name was not null terminated.
Szabolcs Nagy [Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:42:15 +0000 (17:42 +0200)]
add static_assert and hide noreturn, alignas, alignof from C++
add static_assert and protect the other new C11 keyword macros
with #ifndef __cplusplus so they don't conflict with C++ keywords.
Szabolcs Nagy [Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:47:19 +0000 (08:47 +0200)]
add C11 floating-point characteristic macros to float.h
C11 introduced *_DECIMAL_DIG and *_HAS_SUBNORM macros.
Rich Felker [Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:47:27 +0000 (22:47 -0400)]
add malloc_usable_size function and non-stub malloc.h
this function is needed for some important practical applications of
ABI compatibility, and may be useful for supporting some non-portable
software at the source level too.
I was hesitant to add a function which imposes any constraints on
malloc internals; however, it turns out that any malloc implementation
which has realloc must already have an efficient way to determine the
size of existing allocations, so no additional constraint is imposed.
for now, some internal malloc definitions are duplicated in the new
source file. if/when malloc is refactored to put them in a shared
internal header file, these could be removed.
since malloc_usable_size is conventionally declared in malloc.h, the
empty stub version of this file was no longer suitable. it's updated
to provide the standard allocator functions, nonstandard ones (even if
stdlib.h would not expose them based on the feature test macros in
effect), and any malloc-extension functions provided (currently, only
malloc_usable_size).
Rich Felker [Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:24:07 +0000 (20:24 -0400)]
refrain from spinning on locks when there is already a waiter
if there is already a waiter for a lock, spinning on the lock is
essentially an attempt to steal it from whichever waiter would obtain
it via any priority rules in place, and is therefore undesirable. in
the current implementation, there is always an inherent race window at
unlock during which a newly-arriving thread may steal the lock from
the existing waiters, but we should aim to keep this window minimal
rather than enlarging it.
Rich Felker [Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:16:26 +0000 (20:16 -0400)]
spin before waiting on futex in mutex and rwlock lock operations
Rich Felker [Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:38:25 +0000 (16:38 -0400)]
spin in sem_[timed]wait before performing futex wait
empirically, this increases the maximum rate of wait/post operations
between two threads by 20-150 times on machines I tested, including
x86 and arm. conceptually, it makes sense to do some spinning because
semaphores are intended to be usable as a notification mechanism
between threads, not just as locks, and low-latency notification is a
valuable property to have.
Rich Felker [Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:37:13 +0000 (16:37 -0400)]
fix build error on arm due to new a_spin code
this was broken by commit
ea818ea8340c13742a4f41e6077f732291aea4bc.
Rich Felker [Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:58:19 +0000 (15:58 -0400)]
sanitize number of spins in userspace before futex wait
the previous spin limit of 10000 was utterly unreasonable.
empirically, it could consume up to 200000 cycles, whereas a failed
futex wait (EAGAIN) typically takes 1000 cycles or less, and even a
true wait/wake round seems much less expensive.
the new counts (100 for general wait, 200 in barrier) were simply
chosen to be in the range of what's reasonable without having adverse
effects on casual micro-benchmark tests I have been running. they may
still be too high, from a standpoint of not wasting cpu cycles, but at
least they're a lot better than before. rigorous testing across
different archs and cpu models should be performed at some point to
determine whether further adjustments should be made.
Rich Felker [Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:43:40 +0000 (15:43 -0400)]
add working a_spin() atomic for non-x86 targets
conceptually, a_spin needs to be at least a compiler barrier, so the
compiler will not optimize out loops (and the load on each iteration)
while spinning. it should also be a memory barrier, or the spinning
thread might keep spinning without noticing stores from other threads,
thus delaying for longer than it should.
ideally, an optimal a_spin implementation that avoids unnecessary
cache/memory contention should be chosen for each arch, but for now,
the easiest thing is to perform a useless a_cas on the calling
thread's stack.
Rich Felker [Sun, 24 Aug 2014 03:35:10 +0000 (23:35 -0400)]
fix false ownership of stdio FILEs due to tid reuse
this is analogous commit
fffc5cda10e0c5c910b40f7be0d4fa4e15bb3f48
which fixed the corresponding issue for mutexes.
the robust list can't be used here because the locks do not share a
common layout with mutexes. at some point it may make sense to simply
incorporate a mutex object into the FILE structure and use it, but
that would be a much more invasive change, and it doesn't mesh well
with the current design that uses a simpler code path for internal
locking and pulls in the recursive-mutex-like code when the flockfile
API is used explicitly.
Rich Felker [Sat, 23 Aug 2014 03:49:54 +0000 (23:49 -0400)]
fix fallback checks for kernels without private futex support
for unknown syscall commands, the kernel produces ENOSYS, not EINVAL.
Rich Felker [Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:05:10 +0000 (14:05 -0400)]
fix use of uninitialized memory with application-provided thread stacks
the subsequent code in pthread_create and the code which copies TLS
initialization images to the new thread's TLS space assume that the
memory provided to them is zero-initialized, which is true when it's
obtained by pthread_create using mmap. however, when the caller
provides a stack using pthread_attr_setstack, pthread_create cannot
make any assumptions about the contents. simply zero-filling the
relevant memory in this case is the simplest and safest fix.
Rich Felker [Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:20:14 +0000 (17:20 -0400)]
add max_align_t definition for C11 and C++11
unfortunately this needs to be able to vary by arch, because of a huge
mess GCC made: the GCC definition, which became the ABI, depends on
quirks in GCC's definition of __alignof__, which does not match the
formal alignment of the type.
GCC's __alignof__ unexpectedly exposes the an implementation detail,
its "preferred alignment" for the type, rather than the formal/ABI
alignment of the type, which it only actually uses in structures. on
most archs the two values are the same, but on some (at least i386)
the preferred alignment is greater than the ABI alignment.
I considered using _Alignas(8) unconditionally, but on at least one
arch (or1k), the alignment of max_align_t with GCC's definition is
only 4 (even the "preferred alignment" for these types is only 4).
Rich Felker [Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:36:56 +0000 (14:36 -0400)]
further simplify and optimize new cond var
the main idea of the changes made is to have waiters wait directly on
the "barrier" lock that was used to prevent them from making forward
progress too early rather than first waiting on the atomic state value
and then attempting to lock the barrier.
in addition, adjustments to the mutex waiter count are optimized.
previously, each waking waiter decremented the count (unless it was
the first) then immediately incremented it again for the next waiter
(unless it was the last). this was a roundabout was of achieving the
equivalent of incrementing it once for the first waiter and
decrementing it once for the last.
Rich Felker [Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:26:16 +0000 (01:26 -0400)]
simplify and improve new cond var implementation
previously, wake order could be unpredictable: if a waiter happened to
leave its futex wait on the state early, e.g. due to EAGAIN while
restarting after a signal handler, it could acquire the mutex out of
turn. handling this required ugly O(n) list walking in the unwait
function and accounting to remove waiters that already woke from the
list.
with the new changes, the "barrier" locks in each waiter node are only
unlocked in turn. in addition to simplifying the code, this seems to
improve performance slightly, probably by reducing the number of
accesses threads make to each other's stacks.
as an additional benefit, unrecoverable mutex re-locking errors
(mainly ENOTRECOVERABLE for robust mutexes) no longer need to be
handled with deadlock; they can be reported to the caller, since the
unlocking sequence makes it unnecessary to rely on the mutex to
synchronize access to the waiter list.
Rich Felker [Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:09:47 +0000 (22:09 -0400)]
redesign cond var implementation to fix multiple issues
the immediate issue that was reported by Jens Gustedt and needed to be
fixed was corruption of the cv/mutex waiter states when switching to
using a new mutex with the cv after all waiters were unblocked but
before they finished returning from the wait function.
self-synchronized destruction was also handled poorly and may have had
race conditions. and the use of sequence numbers for waking waiters
admitted a theoretical missed-wakeup if the sequence number wrapped
through the full 32-bit space.
the new implementation is largely documented in the comments in the
source. the basic principle is to use linked lists initially attached
to the cv object, but detachable on signal/broadcast, made up of nodes
residing in automatic storage (stack) on the threads that are waiting.
this eliminates the need for waiters to access the cv object after
they are signaled, and allows us to limit wakeup to one waiter at a
time during broadcasts even when futex requeue cannot be used.
performance is also greatly improved, roughly double some tests.
basically nothing is changed in the process-shared cond var case,
where this implementation does not work, since processes do not have
access to one another's local storage.
Rich Felker [Sun, 17 Aug 2014 06:05:14 +0000 (02:05 -0400)]
fix possible failure-to-wake deadlock with robust mutexes
when the kernel is responsible for waking waiters on a robust mutex
whose owner died, it does not have a waiters count available and must
rely entirely on the waiter bit of the lock value.
normally, this bit is only set by newly arriving waiters, so it will
be clear if no new waiters arrived after the current owner obtained
the lock, even if there are other waiters present. leaving it clear is
desirable because it allows timed-lock operations to remove themselves
as waiters and avoid causing unnecessary futex wake syscalls. however,
for process-shared robust mutexes, we need to set the bit whenever
there are existing waiters so that the kernel will know to wake them.
for non-process-shared robust mutexes, the wake happens in userspace
and can look at the waiters count, so the bit does not need to be set
in the non-process-shared case.
Rich Felker [Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:46:26 +0000 (00:46 -0400)]
make pointers used in robust list volatile
when manipulating the robust list, the order of stores matters,
because the code may be asynchronously interrupted by a fatal signal
and the kernel will then access the robust list in what is essentially
an async-signal context.
previously, aliasing considerations made it seem unlikely that a
compiler could reorder the stores, but proving that they could not be
reordered incorrectly would have been extremely difficult. instead
I've opted to make all the pointers used as part of the robust list,
including those in the robust list head and in the individual mutexes,
volatile.
in addition, the format of the robust list has been changed to point
back to the head at the end, rather than ending with a null pointer.
this is to match the documented kernel robust list ABI. the null
pointer, which was previously used, only worked because faults during
access terminate the robust list processing.
Rich Felker [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 23:52:04 +0000 (19:52 -0400)]
fix robust mutex unrecoverable status, and related clean-up
a robust mutex should not enter the unrecoverable status until it's
unlocked without marking it consistent. previously, flag 8 in the type
was used as an indication of unrecoverable, but only honored after
successful locking; this resulted in a race window where the
unrecoverable mutex could appear to a second thread as locked/busy
again while the first thread was in the process of observing it as
unrecoverable.
now, flag 8 is used to mean that the mutex is in the process of being
recovered, but not yet marked consistent. the flag only takes effect
in pthread_mutex_unlock, where it causes the value 0x40000000 (owner
dead flag, with old owner tid 0, an otherwise impossible state) to be
stored in the lock. subsequent lock attempts will interpret this state
as unrecoverable.
Rich Felker [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 23:15:19 +0000 (19:15 -0400)]
fix false ownership of mutexes due to tid reuse, using robust list
per the resolution of Austin Group issue 755, the POSIX requirement
that ownership be enforced for recursive and error-checking mutexes
does not allow a random new thread to acquire ownership of an orphaned
mutex just because it happened to be assigned the same tid as the
original owner that exited with the mutex locked.
one possible fix for this issue would be to disallow the kernel thread
to terminate when it exited with mutexes held, permanently reserving
the tid against reuse. however, this does not solve the problem for
process-shared mutexes where lifetime cannot be controlled, so it was
not used.
the alternate approach I've taken is to reuse the robust mutex system
for non-robust recursive and error-checking mutexes. when a thread
exits, the kernel (or the new userspace robust-list code added in
commit
b092f1c5fa9c048e12d002c7b972df5ecbe96d1d) will set the
owner-died bit for these orphaned mutexes, but since the mutex-type is
not robust, pthread_mutex_trylock will not allow a new owner to
acquire them. instead, they remain in a state of being permanently
locked, as desired.
Rich Felker [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:41:45 +0000 (02:41 -0400)]
optimize locking against vm changes for mmap/munmap
the whole point of this locking is to prevent munmap, or mmap with
MAP_FIXED, from deallocating virtual addresses, or changing the
backing a given virtual address refers to, during certain race windows
involving self-synchronized unmapping or destruction of pthread
synchronization objects. there is no need for exclusion in the other
direction, so it suffices to take the lock momentarily and release it
before making the syscall, rather than holding it across the syscall.
Rich Felker [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:28:34 +0000 (02:28 -0400)]
enable private futex for process-local robust mutexes
the kernel always uses non-private wake when walking the robust list
when a thread or process exits, so it's not able to wake waiters
listening with the private futex flag. this problem is solved by doing
the equivalent in userspace as the last step of pthread_exit.
care is taken to remove mutexes from the robust list before unlocking
them so that the kernel will not attempt to access them again,
possibly after another thread locks them. this removal code can treat
the list as singly-linked, since no further code which would add or
remove items is able to run at this point. moreover, the pending
pointer is not needed since the mutexes being unlocked are all
process-local; in the case of asynchronous process termination, they
all cease to exist.
since a process-local robust mutex cannot come into existence without
a call to pthread_mutexattr_setrobust in the same process, the code
for userspace robust list processing is put in that source file, and
a weak alias to a dummy function is used to avoid pulling in this
bloat as part of pthread_exit in static-linked programs.
Rich Felker [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 03:54:52 +0000 (23:54 -0400)]
make futex operations use private-futex mode when possible
private-futex uses the virtual address of the futex int directly as
the hash key rather than requiring the kernel to resolve the address
to an underlying backing for the mapping in which it lies. for certain
usage patterns it improves performance significantly.
in many places, the code using futex __wake and __wait operations was
already passing a correct fixed zero or nonzero flag for the priv
argument, so no change was needed at the site of the call, only in the
__wake and __wait functions themselves. in other places, especially
where the process-shared attribute for a synchronization object was
not previously tracked, additional new code is needed. for mutexes,
the only place to store the flag is in the type field, so additional
bit masking logic is needed for accessing the type.
for non-process-shared condition variable broadcasts, the futex
requeue operation is unable to requeue from a private futex to a
process-shared one in the mutex structure, so requeue is simply
disabled in this case by waking all waiters.
for robust mutexes, the kernel always performs a non-private wake when
the owner dies. in order not to introduce a behavioral regression in
non-process-shared robust mutexes (when the owning thread dies), they
are simply forced to be treated as process-shared for now, giving
correct behavior at the expense of performance. this can be fixed by
adding explicit code to pthread_exit to do the right thing for
non-shared robust mutexes in userspace rather than relying on the
kernel to do it, and will be fixed in this way later.
since not all supported kernels have private futex support, the new
code detects EINVAL from the futex syscall and falls back to making
the call without the private flag. no attempt to cache the result is
made; caching it and using the cached value efficiently is somewhat
difficult, and not worth the complexity when the benefits would be
seen only on ancient kernels which have numerous other limitations and
bugs anyway.
Szabolcs Nagy [Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:07:44 +0000 (17:07 +0200)]
fix #ifdef inside a macro argument list in __init_tls.c
C99 6.10.3p11 disallows such constructs
so use an #ifdef outside of the argument list of __syscall
Szabolcs Nagy [Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:55:56 +0000 (16:55 +0200)]
fix CPU_EQUAL macro in sched.h
Szabolcs Nagy [Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:47:51 +0000 (16:47 +0200)]
add inline isspace in ctype.h as an optimization
isspace can be a bottleneck in a simple parser, inlining it
gives slightly smaller and faster code
src/locale/pleval.o already had this optimization, the size
change for other libc functions for i386 is
src/internal/intscan.o 2134 2118 -16
src/locale/dcngettext.o 1562 1552 -10
src/network/res_msend.o 1961 1940 -21
src/network/lookup_name.o 2627 2608 -19
src/network/getnameinfo.o 1814 1811 -3
src/network/lookup_serv.o 643 624 -19
src/stdio/vfscanf.o 2675 2663 -12
src/stdlib/atoll.o 117 107 -10
src/stdlib/atoi.o 95 91 -4
src/stdlib/atol.o 95 91 -4
src/time/strptime.o 1515 1503 -12
(TOTALS) 432451 432321 -130
Rich Felker [Fri, 8 Aug 2014 04:53:27 +0000 (00:53 -0400)]
add dlerror message for static-linked dlsym failure
Clément Vasseur [Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:49:29 +0000 (17:49 +0200)]
fix dlerror when using dlopen with a static libc
when the dynamic loader is disabled, dlopen fails correctly but dlerror
did not return a human readable error string like it should have.
Clément Vasseur [Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:49:24 +0000 (17:49 +0200)]
make clearenv available with _BSD_SOURCE
glibc declares clearenv under _BSD_SOURCE, some applications might
depend on it being available this way.
Timo Teräs [Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:15:15 +0000 (14:15 +0300)]
make endmntent function handle null argument
The function originates from SunOS 4.x in which the null argument
is allowed. glibc also handles this case.
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:10:31 +0000 (19:10 -0400)]
release 1.1.4
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:02:54 +0000 (19:02 -0400)]
update notice on broken gcc versions in INSTALL file
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:06:11 +0000 (16:06 -0400)]
update COPYRIGHT file to reflect new contributors
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:05:25 +0000 (12:05 -0400)]
harden locale name handling and prevent slashes in LC_MESSAGES
the code which loads locale files was already rejecting locale names
containing slashes. however, LC_MESSAGES records a locale name even if
libc does not have a matching locale file, so that gettext or
application code can use the recorded locale name for message
translations to languages that libc does not support. this recorded
name was not being checked for slashes, meaning that such code could
potentially be tricked into directory traversal.
in addition, since the value of a locale category is sometimes used as
a pathname component by callers, the improved code rejects any value
beginning with a dot. this prevents traversal to the parent directory
via "..", use of the top-level locale directory via ".", and also
avoids "hidden" directories as a side effect.
finally, overly long locale names are now rejected (treated as an
unrecognized name and thus as an alias for C.UTF-8) rather than being
truncated.
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:38:23 +0000 (02:38 -0400)]
implement ffsl and ffsll functions
per the resolution of Austin Group issue #617, these are accepted for
XSI option in POSIX future and thus I'm treating them as standard
functions.
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:33:17 +0000 (02:33 -0400)]
limit visibility of ffs function declaration to _XOPEN_SOURCE
per the standard, ffs is XSI shaded, whereas the other functions in
this header are in the base.
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:25:37 +0000 (23:25 -0400)]
fix broken offset argument to the mmap2 syscall on or1k
for or1k, the kernel expects the offset passed to mmap2 in units of
the 8k page size, not the standard unit of 4k used on most other
archs.
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:24:31 +0000 (23:24 -0400)]
add framework for mmap2 syscall unit to vary by arch
Rich Felker [Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:19:43 +0000 (23:19 -0400)]
provide PAGE_SIZE as a constant value of 8192 on or1k
according to Stefan Kristiansson, or1k page size is not actually
variable and the value of 8192 is part of the ABI.
Szabolcs Nagy [Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:02:08 +0000 (19:02 +0200)]
plural rule evaluator rewrite for dcngettext
using an operator precedence parser the code size
became smaller and it is only slower by about %10
size of old vs new pleval.o on different archs:
(with inlined isspace added to pleval.c for now)
old:
text data bss dec hex filename
828 0 0 828 33c pl.i386.o
1152 0 0 1152 480 pl.arm.o
1704 0 0 1704 6a8 pl.mips.o
1328 0 0 1328 530 pl.ppc.o
992 0 0 992 3e0 pl.x64.o
new:
text data bss dec hex filename
693 0 0 693 2b5 pl.i386.o
972 0 0 972 3cc pl.arm.o
1276 0 0 1276 4fc pl.mips.o
1087 0 0 1087 43f pl.ppc.o
846 0 0 846 34e pl.x64.o
Timo Teräs [Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:03:16 +0000 (14:03 +0000)]
reimplement if_nameindex and getifaddrs using netlink
the previous implementations had several deficiencies, the most severe
of which was the inability to report unconfigured interfaces or
interfaces without ipv4 addresses. among the options discussed for
fixing this, using netlink turned out to be the one with the least
cost and most additional advantages. other improvements include:
if_nameindex now avoids duplicates in the list it produces, but still
includes legacy-style interface aliases if any are in use.
getifaddrs now reports hardware addresses and includes the scope_id
for link-local ipv6 addresses in the resulting address.
Rich Felker [Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:40:51 +0000 (16:40 -0400)]
fix terminal control ioctl constants for sh
this commit changes the names to match the kernel names, exposing
under the normal names the "old" versions which work with a smaller
termios structure compatible with the userspace structure, and
renaming the "new" versions with "2" on the end like the kernel has.
this fixes spurious warnings "Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0x802c542a" from
qemu-sh4 and should be more correct anyway, since our userspace
termios structure does not have meaningful information in the part
which the kernel would be interpreting as speeds with the new ioctl.
Szabolcs Nagy [Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:39:19 +0000 (19:39 +0200)]
tweaks to plural rules evaluator
const parsing, depth accounting and failure handling was changed
a bit so the generated code is slightly smaller.
Rich Felker [Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:25:41 +0000 (12:25 -0400)]
harden dcngettext plural processing
while the __mo_lookup backend can verify that the translated message
ends with a null terminator, is has no way to know nplurals and thus
no way to verify that sufficiently many null terminators are present
in the string to satisfy all plural forms. the code in dcngettext was
already attempting to avoid reading past the end of the mo file
mapping, but failed to do so because the strlen call itself could
over-read. using strnlen instead allows us to avoid the problem.
Rich Felker [Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:48:36 +0000 (11:48 -0400)]
harden mo file processing for locale/translations
rather than just checking that the start of the string lies within the
mapping, also check that the nominal length remains within the
mapping, and that the null terminator is present at the nominal
length. this ensures that the caller, using the result as a C string,
will not read past the end of the mapping.
the nominal length is never exposed to the caller, but it's useful
internally to find where the null terminator should be without having
to restort to linear search via strnlen/memchr.
Rich Felker [Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:04:15 +0000 (18:04 -0400)]
implement non-default plural rules for ngettext translations
the new code in dcngettext was written by me, and the expression
evaluator by Szabolcs Nagy (nsz).
Rich Felker [Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:59:58 +0000 (21:59 -0400)]
remove unused a_cas_l from or1k atomic.h
this follows the same logic as in the previous commit for other archs.
Rich Felker [Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:50:24 +0000 (21:50 -0400)]
clean up unused and inconsistent atomics in arch dirs
the a_cas_l, a_swap_l, a_swap_p, and a_store_l operations were
probably used a long time ago when only i386 and x86_64 were
supported. as other archs were added, support for them was
inconsistent, and they are obviously not in use at present. having
them around potentially confuses readers working on new ports, and the
type-punning hacks and inconsistent use of types in their definitions
is not a style I wish to perpetuate in the source tree, so removing
them seems appropriate.
Rich Felker [Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:13:37 +0000 (21:13 -0400)]
fix insufficient synchronization in sh atomic asm
while other usage I've seen only has the synco instruction after the
atomic operation, I cannot find any documentation indicating that this
is correct. certainly all stores before the atomic need to have been
synchronized before the atomic operation takes place.
Rich Felker [Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:29:56 +0000 (04:29 -0400)]
implement gettext message translation functions
this commit replaces the stub implementations with working message
translation functions. translation units are factored so as to prevent
pulling in the legacy, non-library-safe functions which use a global
textdomain in modern code which is using the versions with an explicit
domain argument. bind_textdomain_codeset is also placed in its own
file since it should not be needed by most programs.
this implementation is still missing some features: the LANGUAGE
environment variable (for multiple fallback languages) is not honored,
and non-default plural-form rules are not supported. these issues will
be addressed in a later commit.
one notable difference from the GNU implementation is that there is no
default path for loading translation files. in principle one could be
added, but since the documented correct usage is to call the
bindtextdomain function, a default path is probably unnecessary.
Rich Felker [Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:36:25 +0000 (05:36 -0400)]
add support for LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES translations
for LC_MESSAGES, translation of strerror and similar literal message
functions is supported. for messages in other places (particularly the
dynamic linker) that use format strings, translation is not yet
supported. in order to make it possible and safe, such messages will
need to be refactored to separate the textual content from the format.
for LC_TIME, the day and month names and strftime-style format strings
provided by nl_langinfo are supported for translation. however there
may be limitations, as some of the original C-locale nl_langinfo
strings are non-unique and thus perhaps non-suitable as keys.
overall, the locale support activated by this commit should not be
seen as complete and polished but as a basis for beginning to test
locale functionality and implement locales.
Rich Felker [Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:43:50 +0000 (04:43 -0400)]
add missing yes/no strings to nl_langinfo
these were removed from the standard but still offered as an extension
in langinfo.h, so nl_langinfo should support them.
Rich Felker [Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:42:33 +0000 (02:42 -0400)]
fix nl_langinfo table for LC_TIME era-related items
due to a skipped slot and missing null terminator, the last few
strings were off by one or two slots from their item codes.
Rich Felker [Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:34:09 +0000 (02:34 -0400)]
implement mo file string lookup for translations
the core is based on a binary search; hash table is not used. both
native and reverse-endian mo files are supported. all offsets read
from the mapped mo file are checked against the mapping size to
prevent the possibility of reads outside the mapping.
this commit has no observable effects since there are not yet any
callers to the message translation code.
Rich Felker [Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:23:11 +0000 (03:23 -0400)]
implement locale file loading and state for remaining locale categories
there is still no code which actually uses the loaded locale files, so
the main observable effect of this commit is that calls to setlocale
store and give back the names of the selected locales for the
remaining categories (LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY) if a locale
file by the requested name could be loaded.
Rich Felker [Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:02:17 +0000 (03:02 -0400)]
fix locale environment variable logic for empty strings
per POSIX (XBD 8.2) LC_*/LANG environment variables set to to the
empty string are supposed to be treated as if they were not set at
all.
Szabolcs Nagy [Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:13:52 +0000 (16:13 +0200)]
add new PR_SET_THP_DISABLE and PR_GET_THP_DISABLE prctl flags
they can be used to set or query if transparent huge pages are disabled.
introduced in linux 3.15 commit
a0715cc22601e8830ace98366c0c2bd8da52af52
Szabolcs Nagy [Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:09:33 +0000 (16:09 +0200)]
add pacing rate information to the tcp_info struct in tcp.h
used by monitoring applications such as ss from iproute2
introduced in linux 3.15 commit
977cb0ecf82eb6d15562573c31edebf90db35163
Szabolcs Nagy [Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:02:15 +0000 (16:02 +0200)]
add new ethernet packet types ETH_P_80221, ETH_P_LOOPBACK
ETH_P_80221 is ethertype for IEEE Std 802.21 - Media Independent Handover Protocol
introduced in linux 3.15 commit
b62faf3cdc875a1ac5a10696cf6ea0b12bab1596
ETH_P_LOOPBACK is the correct packet type for loopback in IEEE 802.3*
introduced in linux 3.15 commit
61ccbb684421d374fdcd7cf5d6b024b06f03ce4e
some defines were shuffled to be in ascending order and match the kernel header
Szabolcs Nagy [Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:43:42 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
add syscall numbers for the new renameat2 syscall
it's like rename but with flags eg. to allow atomic exchange of two files,
introduced in linux 3.15 commit
520c8b16505236fc82daa352e6c5e73cd9870cff
Rich Felker [Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:38:26 +0000 (12:38 -0400)]
fix regression that negated some mips syscall error returns
due to what was essentially a copy and paste error, the changes made
in commit
f61be1f875a2758509d6e9e2cf6f1d9603b28b65 caused syscalls
with 5 or 6 arguments (and syscalls with 2, 3, or 4 arguments when
compiled with clang compatibility) to negate the returned error code a
second time, breaking errno reporting.
Rich Felker [Sun, 20 Jul 2014 03:37:21 +0000 (23:37 -0400)]
fix mips struct stat dev_t members for big endian
the mips version of this structure on the kernel side wrongly has
32-bit type rather than 64-bit type. fortunately there is adjacent
padding to bring it up to 64 bits, and on little-endian, this allows
us to treat the adjacent kernel st_dev and st_pad0[0] as as single
64-bit dev_t. however, on big endian, such treatment results in the
upper and lower 32-bit parts of the dev_t value being swapped. for the
purpose of just comparing st_dev values this did not break anything,
but it precluded actually processing the device numbers as major/minor
values.
since the broken kernel behavior that needs to be worked around is
isolated to one arch, I put the workarounds in syscall_arch.h rather
than adding a stat fixup path in the common code. on little endian
mips, the added code optimizes out completely.
the changes necessary were incompatible with the way the __asm_syscall
macro was factored so I just removed it and flattened the individual
__syscallN functions. this arguably makes the code easier to read and
understand, anyway.
Brent Cook [Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:30:07 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
add issetugid function to check for elevated privilege
this function provides a way for third-party library code to use the
same logic that's used internally in libc for suppressing untrusted
input/state (e.g. the environment) when the application is running
with privleges elevated by the setuid or setgid bit or some other
mechanism. its semantics are intended to match the openbsd function by
the same name.
there was some question as to whether this function is necessary:
getauxval(AT_SECURE) was proposed as an alternative. however, this has
several drawbacks. the most obvious is that it asks programmers to be
aware of an implementation detail of ELF-based systems (the aux
vector) rather than simply the semantic predicate to be checked. and
trying to write a safe, reliable version of issetugid in terms of
getauxval is difficult. for example, early versions of the glibc
getauxval did not report ENOENT, which could lead to false negatives
if AT_SECURE was not present in the aux vector (this could probably
only happen when running on non-linux kernels under linux emulation,
since glibc does not support linux versions old enough to lack
AT_SECURE). as for musl, getauxval has always properly reported
errors, but prior to commit
7bece9c2095ee81f14b1088f6b0ba2f37fecb283,
the musl implementation did not emulate AT_SECURE if missing, which
would result in a false positive. since musl actually does partially
support kernels that lack AT_SECURE, this was problematic.
the intent is that library authors will use issetugid if its
availability is detected at build time, and only fall back to the
unreliable alternatives on systems that lack it.
patch by Brent Cook. commit message/rationale by Rich Felker.
Rich Felker [Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:42:15 +0000 (20:42 -0400)]
fix or1k atomic store
at the very least, a compiler barrier is required no matter what, and
that was missing. current or1k implementations have strong ordering,
but this is not guaranteed as part of the ISA, so some sort of
synchronizing operation is necessary.
in principle we should use l.msync, but due to misinterpretation of
the spec, it was wrongly treated as an optional instruction and is not
supported by some implementations. if future kernels trap it and treat
it as a nop (rather than illegal instruction) when the
hardware/emulator does not support it, we could consider using it.
in the absence of l.msync support, the l.lwa/l.swa instructions, which
are specified to have a built-in l.msync, need to be used. the easiest
way to use them to implement atomic store is to perform an atomic swap
and throw away the result. using compare-and-swap would be lighter,
and would probably be sufficient for all actual usage cases, but
checking this is difficult and error-prone:
with store implemented in terms of swap, it's guaranteed that, when
another atomic operation is performed at the same time as the store,
either the result of the store followed by the other operation, or
just the store (clobbering the other operation's result) is seen. if
store were implemented in terms of cas, there are cases where this
invariant would fail to hold, and we would need detailed rules for the
situations in which the store operation is well-defined.
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 22:34:10 +0000 (18:34 -0400)]
fix missing barriers in powerpc atomic store
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 22:23:24 +0000 (18:23 -0400)]
fix microblaze atomic store
as far as I can tell, microblaze is strongly ordered, but this does
not seem to be well-documented and the assumption may need revisiting.
even with strong ordering, however, a volatile C assignment is not
sufficient to implement atomic store, since it does not preclude
reordering by the compiler with respect to non-volatile stores and
loads.
simply flanking a C store with empty volatile asm blocks with memory
clobbers would achieve the desired result, but is likely to result in
worse code generation, since the address and value for the store may
need to be spilled. actually writing the store in asm, so that there's
only one asm block, should give optimal code generation while
satisfying the requirement for having a compiler barrier.
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:57:48 +0000 (15:57 -0400)]
fix missing barrier instructions in powerpc atomic asm
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:51:12 +0000 (15:51 -0400)]
fix missing barrier instructions in mips atomic asm
previously I had wrongly assumed the ll/sc instructions also provided
memory synchronization; apparently they do not. this commit adds sync
instructions before and after each atomic operation and changes the
atomic store to simply use sync before and after a plain store, rather
than a useless compare-and-swap.
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:51:35 +0000 (13:51 -0400)]
use memory constraints for mips atomic asm
despite lacking the semantic content that the asm accesses the
pointed-to object rather than just using its address as a value, the
mips asm was not actually broken. the asm blocks were declared
volatile, meaning that the compiler must treat them as having unknown
side effects.
however changing the asm to use memory constraints is desirable not
just from a semantic correctness and consistency standpoint, but also
produces better code. the compiler is able to use base/offset
addressing expressions for the atomic object's address rather than
having to load the address into a single register. this improves
access to global locks in static libc, and access to non-zero-offset
atomic fields in synchronization primitives, etc.
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:43:46 +0000 (13:43 -0400)]
fix build breakage from ppc asm constraints change
due to a mistake in my testing procedure, the changes in the previous
commit were not correctly tested and wrongly assumed to be valid. the
lwarx and stwcx. instructions do not accept general ppc memory address
expressions and thus the argument associated with the memory
constraint cannot be used directly.
instead, the memory constraint can be left as an argument that the asm
does not actually use, and the address can be provided in a separate
register constraint.
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:03:30 +0000 (13:03 -0400)]
remove cruft from microblaze atomic.h
Rich Felker [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:19:20 +0000 (12:19 -0400)]
fix broken constraints for powerpc atomic cas asm
the register constraint for the address to be accessed did not convey
that the asm can access the pointed-to object. as far as the compiler
could tell, the result of the asm was just a pure function of the
address and the values passed in, and thus the asm could be hoisted
out of loops or omitted entirely if the result was not used.
Rich Felker [Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:24:04 +0000 (15:24 -0400)]
fix missing flags arg to fstatat syscall in fstat fallback path
this code path is used only on archs without the plain, non-at
syscalls, and only when the fstat syscall fails with EBADF on a valid
file descriptor. this in turn can happen only for O_PATH file
descriptors, and may not happen at all on the newer kernels needed for
supporting such archs.
with the flags argument omitted, spurious fstat failures may happen
when the argument register happens to have the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW bit
set.
Rich Felker [Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:55:30 +0000 (14:55 -0400)]
fix microblaze definition of struct stat
the erroneous definition was missed because with works with qemu
user-level emulation, which also has the wrong definition. the actual
kernel uses the asm-generic generic definition.
Stefan Kristiansson [Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:09:10 +0000 (22:09 +0300)]
add or1k (OpenRISC 1000) architecture port
With the exception of a fenv implementation, the port is fully featured.
The port has been tested in or1ksim, the golden reference functional
simulator for OpenRISC 1000.
It passes all libc-test tests (except the math tests that
requires a fenv implementation).
The port assumes an or1k implementation that has support for
atomic instructions (l.lwa/l.swa).
Although it passes all the libc-test tests, the port is still
in an experimental state, and has yet experienced very little
'real-world' use.
Rich Felker [Fri, 18 Jul 2014 02:01:52 +0000 (22:01 -0400)]
provide getauxval(AT_SECURE) even if it is missing from the aux vector
this could happen on 2.4-series linux kernels that predate AT_SECURE
and possibly on other kernels that are emulating the linux syscall API
but not providing AT_SECURE in the aux vector at startup.
in principle applications should be checking errno anyway, but this
does not really work. to be secure, the caller would have to treat
ENOENT (indeterminate result) as possibly-suid and thereby disable
functionality in the typical non-suid usage case. and since glibc only
runs on kernels that provide AT_SECURE, applications written to the
glibc getauxval API might simply assume it succeeds.
Rich Felker [Fri, 18 Jul 2014 01:37:10 +0000 (21:37 -0400)]
remove useless infinite loop from end of exit function
this was originally added as a cheap but portable way to quell
warnings about reaching the end of a function that does not return,
but since _Exit is marked _Noreturn, it's not needed. removing it
makes the call to _Exit into a tail call and shaves off a few bytes of
code from minimal static programs.
Rich Felker [Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:56:27 +0000 (19:56 -0400)]
fix crash in regexec for nonzero nmatch argument with REG_NOSUB
per POSIX, the nmatch and pmatch arguments are ignored when the regex
was compiled with REG_NOSUB.
Rich Felker [Thu, 17 Jul 2014 01:32:06 +0000 (21:32 -0400)]
work around constant folding bug 61144 in gcc 4.9.0 and 4.9.1
previously we detected this bug in configure and issued advice for a
workaround, but this turned out not to work. since then gcc 4.9.0 has
appeared in several distributions, and now 4.9.1 has been released
without a fix despite this being a wrong code generation bug which is
supposed to be a release-blocker, per gcc policy.
since the scope of the bug seems to affect only data objects (rather
than functions) whose definitions are overridable, and there are only
a very small number of these in musl, I am just changing them from
const to volatile for the time being. simply removing the const would
be sufficient to make gcc 4.9.1 work (the non-const case was
inadvertently fixed as part of another change in gcc), and this would
also be sufficient with 4.9.0 if we forced -O0 on the affected files
or on the whole build. however it's cleaner to just remove all the
broken compiler detection and use volatile, which will ensure that
they are never constant-folded. the quality of a non-broken compiler's
output should not be affected except for the fact that these objects
are no longer const and thus possibly add a few bytes to data/bss.
this change can be reconsidered and possibly reverted at some point in
the future when the broken gcc versions are no longer relevant.
Rich Felker [Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:44:22 +0000 (20:44 -0400)]
simplify __stdio_exit static linking logic
the purpose of this logic is to avoid linking __stdio_exit unless any
stdio reads (which might require repositioning the file offset at exit
time) or writes (which might require flushing at exit time) could have
been performed.
previously, exit called two wrapper functions for __stdio_exit named
__flush_on_exit and __seek_on_exit. both of these functions actually
performed both tasks (seek and flushing) by calling the underlying
__stdio_exit. in order to avoid doing this twice, an overridable data
object __towrite_used was used to cause __seek_on_exit to act as a nop
when __towrite was linked.
now, exit only makes one call, directly to __stdio_exit. this is
satisfiable by a weak dummy definition in exit.c, but the real
definition is pulled in by either __toread.c or __towrite.c through
their referencing a symbol which is defined only in __stdio_exit.c.
Rich Felker [Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:59:49 +0000 (21:59 -0400)]
implement the LOG_CONS option in syslog
this was previously a no-op, somewhat intentionally, because I failed
to understand that it only has an effect when sending to the logging
facility fails and thus is not the nuisance that it would be if always
sent output to the console.
Rich Felker [Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:56:50 +0000 (21:56 -0400)]
suppress early syslog return when log socket cannot be opened
this behavior is no longer valid in general, and was never necessary.
if the LOG_PERROR option is set, output to stderr could still succeed.
also, when the LOG_CONS option is added, it will need syslog to
proceed even if opening the log socket fails.
Rich Felker [Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:20:04 +0000 (21:20 -0400)]
implement the LOG_PERROR option in syslog
this is a nonstandard feature, but easy and inexpensive to add. since
the corresponding macro has always been defined in our syslog.h, it
makes sense to actually support it. applications may reasonably be
using the presence of the macro to assume that the feature is
supported.
the behavior of omitting the 'header' part of the log message does not
seem to be well-documented, but matches other implementations (at
least glibc) which have this option.
based on a patch by Clément Vasseur, but simplified using %n.
Clément Vasseur [Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:34:18 +0000 (14:34 +0200)]
fix the %m specifier in syslog
errno must be saved upon vsyslog entry, otherwise its value could be
changed by some libc function before reaching the %m handler in
vsnprintf.
Rich Felker [Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:29:44 +0000 (00:29 -0400)]
explicitly reject empty names in dynamic linker load_library function
previously passing an empty string for name resulted in failure, as
expected, but only after spurious syscalls, and it produced confusing
errno values (and thus dlerror strings).
in addition to dlopen calls, this issue affected use of LD_PRELOAD
with trailing whitespace or colon characters.
Rich Felker [Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:26:12 +0000 (00:26 -0400)]
make dynamic linker accept colon as a separator for LD_PRELOAD
Rich Felker [Tue, 8 Jul 2014 23:40:44 +0000 (19:40 -0400)]
fix typo in microblaze setjmp asm
r24 was wrongly being saved at a misaligned offset of 30 rather than
the correct offset of 40 in the jmp_buf. the exact effects of this
error have not been studied, but it's clear that the value of r24 was
lost across setjmp/longjmp and the saved values of r21 and/or r22 may
also have been corrupted.
Rich Felker [Mon, 7 Jul 2014 03:10:35 +0000 (23:10 -0400)]
rename file containing pthread_cleanup_push and pop for consistency
Rich Felker [Mon, 7 Jul 2014 02:56:25 +0000 (22:56 -0400)]
rework cancellation weak alias logic not to depend on archive order
if the order of object files in the static archive libc.a was not
respected by the linker, the old logic could wrongly cause POSIX
symbols outside of the ISO C namespace to be pulled into pure C
programs. this should not happen with well-behaved linkers, but
relying on the link order was a bad idea anyway.
files are renamed to better reflect their contents now that they don't
need names to control their order as members in the archive file.
Rich Felker [Sun, 6 Jul 2014 05:34:13 +0000 (01:34 -0400)]
fix multiple issues in legacy function getpass
1. failure to output a newline after the password is read
2. fd leaks via missing FD_CLOEXEC
3. fd leaks via failure-to-close when any of the standard streams are
closed at the time of the call
4. wrongful fallback to use of stdin when opening /dev/tty fails
5. wrongful use of stderr rather than /dev/tty for prompt
6. failure to report error reading password
Rich Felker [Sun, 6 Jul 2014 03:29:55 +0000 (23:29 -0400)]
eliminate use of cached pid from thread structure
the main motivation for this change is to remove the assumption that
the tid of the main thread is also the pid of the process. (the value
returned by the set_tid_address syscall was used to fill both fields
despite it semantically being the tid.) this is historically and
presently true on linux and unlikely to change, but it conceivably
could be false on other systems that otherwise reproduce the linux
syscall api/abi.
only a few parts of the code were actually still using the cached pid.
in a couple places (aio and synccall) it was a minor optimization to
avoid a syscall. caching could be reintroduced, but lazily as part of
the public getpid function rather than at program startup, if it's
deemed important for performance later. in other places (cancellation
and pthread_kill) the pid was completely unnecessary; the tkill
syscall can be used instead of tgkill. this is actually a rather
subtle issue, since tgkill is supposedly a solution to race conditions
that can affect use of tkill. however, as documented in the commit
message for commit
7779dbd2663269b465951189b4f43e70839bc073, tgkill
does not actually solve this race; it just limits it to happening
within one process rather than between processes. we use a lock that
avoids the race in pthread_kill, and the use in the cancellation
signal handler is self-targeted and thus not subject to tid reuse
races, so both are safe regardless of which syscall (tgkill or tkill)
is used.
Rich Felker [Thu, 3 Jul 2014 01:46:41 +0000 (21:46 -0400)]
properly pass current locale to *_l functions when used internally
this change is presently non-functional since the callees do not yet
use their locale argument for anything.
Rich Felker [Thu, 3 Jul 2014 01:38:54 +0000 (21:38 -0400)]
consolidate str[n]casecmp_l into str[n]casecmp source files
this is mainly done for consistency with the ctype functions and to
declutter the src/locale directory.
Rich Felker [Thu, 3 Jul 2014 01:16:05 +0000 (21:16 -0400)]
consolidate *_l ctype/wctype functions into their non-_l source files
the main practical purposes of this commit are to remove a huge amount
of clutter from the src/locale directory, to cut down on the length of
the $(AR) and $(LD) command lines, and to reduce the amount of space
wasted by object file headers in the static libc.a. build time may
also be reduced, though this has not been measured.
as an additional justification, if there ever were a need for the
behavior of these functions to vary by locale, it would be necessary
for the non-_l versions to call the _l versions, so that linking the
former without the latter would not be possible anyway.
Rich Felker [Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:33:19 +0000 (19:33 -0400)]
add locale framework
this commit adds non-stub implementations of setlocale, duplocale,
newlocale, and uselocale, along with the data structures and minimal
code needed for representing the active locale on a per-thread basis
and optimizing the common case where thread-local locale settings are
not in use.
at this point, the data structures only contain what is necessary to
represent LC_CTYPE (a single flag) and LC_MESSAGES (a name for use in
finding message translation files). representation for the other
categories will be added later; the expectation is that a single
pointer will suffice for each.
for LC_CTYPE, the strings "C" and "POSIX" are treated as special; any
other string is accepted and treated as "C.UTF-8". for other
categories, any string is accepted after being truncated to a maximum
supported length (currently 15 bytes). for LC_MESSAGES, the name is
kept regardless of whether libc itself can use such a message
translation locale, since applications using catgets or gettext should
be able to use message locales libc is not aware of. for other
categories, names which are not successfully loaded as locales (which,
at present, means all names) are treated as aliases for "C". setlocale
never fails.
locale settings are not yet used anywhere, so this commit should have
no visible effects except for the contents of the string returned by
setlocale.