From c47e7062ddc1c3aa24db071db0f4d1dca792f325 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:00:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] release notes for 0.9.14 --- WHATSNEW | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index c40850b4..a51aeb5f 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -1052,3 +1052,33 @@ arch-specific bugs: - arm/armhf (hardfloat) misidentified by configure - ambiguity of wait (exit status) macros on mips with signal number 127 - wrong value of _NSIG and SIGRTMAX on mips + + + +0.9.14 release notes + +bugs fixed: +- failure to properly install dynamic linker with DESTDIR set (symlink wrong) +- rare deadlock in libc-internal locking routines +- dynamic linker used fallback paths wrongly on (possibly transient) errors +- popen broken when stdin or stdout was already closed in parent +- deadlock/memory-corruption in multithreaded set*id and setrlimit functions +- realpath failed when file was not readable +- readpath mistakenly had cancellation points in it +- crashes in scanf with invalid %m conversion specifiers +- misclassificiation of some invalid ld80 float representation in fpclassify +- various overflow and underflow flag issues in math functions +- domain handling errors for acoshf and acoshl +- wrong values for some sysconf properties +- lack of proper memory barriers on arm + +mips-specific bugs: +- broken sysv ipc structures +- multiple stack-related bugs in clone, leading to crashes in parent or child +- overflow writing sigset_t in multithreaded set*id and setrlimit functions + +other improvements: +- size and performance improvements to various math functions +- wait.h as a compatibility alias for sys/wait.h +- various header improvements +- support for runtime-variable page size on archs that need it (mainly mips) -- 2.25.1