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Rasmus Villemoes 4b4d4056bb linux: spawni.c: simplify error reporting to parent
Using CLONE_VFORK already ensures that the parent does not run until the
child has either exec'ed succesfully or called _exit. Hence we don't
need to read from a CLOEXEC pipe to ensure proper synchronization - we
just make explicit use of the fact the the child and parent run in the
same VM, so the child can write an error code to a field of the
posix_spawn_args struct instead of sending it through a pipe.

To ensure that this mechanism really works, the parent initializes the
field to -1 and the child writes 0 before execing.

This eliminates some annoying bookkeeping that is necessary to avoid
the file actions from clobbering the write end of the pipe, and
getting rid of the pipe creation in the first place means fewer system
calls (four in the parent, usually one in the child) and fewer
chanches for the spawn to fail (e.g. if we're close to EMFILE).

Checked on x86_64 and i686.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c (posix_spawn_args): Remove pipe
	field, add err field.
	(__spawni_child): Report error through err member instead of pipe.
	(__spawnix): Likewise.
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assert Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2016-01-04 16:05:18 +00:00
benchtests Clear destination buffer updated by the previous run 2016-05-18 05:51:59 -07:00
bits Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): stack_t. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
catgets Fix building glibc master with NDEBUG and --with-cpu. 2016-03-15 23:23:24 -04:00
conform conform tests: call perl with '-I.' 2016-09-05 22:53:22 +02:00
crypt Fix build failures with -DDEBUG. 2016-01-15 11:07:41 -07:00
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ctype Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights. 2016-01-04 16:05:18 +00:00
debug Add tests for fortification of bcopy and bzero. 2016-08-19 09:04:35 -04:00
dirent Deprecate readdir_r, readdir64_r [BZ #19056] 2016-02-20 12:56:55 +01:00
dlfcn tst-rec-dlopen: Fix build fail due to missing inclusion of string.h 2016-06-06 11:03:04 +02:00
elf [PR19826] fix non-LE TLS in static programs 2016-09-21 22:01:16 -03:00
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hesiod hesiod: Avoid heap overflow in get_txt_records [BZ #20031] 2016-05-02 16:04:32 +02:00
hurd hurdmalloc: Run fork handler as late as possible [BZ #19431] 2016-09-22 01:45:48 +02:00
iconv Fix UTF-16 surrogate handling. [BZ #19727] 2016-05-25 17:18:06 +02:00
iconvdata Fix UTF-16 surrogate handling. [BZ #19727] 2016-05-25 17:18:06 +02:00
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inet Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): conditionally defined structures. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
intl hurd: fix pathconf visibility 2016-09-18 23:45:12 +02:00
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libio Support __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__ feature test macro. 2016-08-02 17:40:35 +00:00
locale S390: Fix relocation of _nl_current_LC_CATETORY_used in static build. [BZ #19860] 2016-06-28 12:28:53 +02:00
localedata localedata: lt_LT: use hyphens in d_fmt [BZ #20497] 2016-08-24 16:07:02 -04:00
login 2016-06-11 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> 2016-06-11 14:50:16 -07:00
mach Fix old-style function definition 2016-09-20 23:10:51 +02:00
malloc malloc: Manual part of conversion to __libc_lock 2016-09-21 16:28:08 +02:00
manual Add iszero. 2016-09-23 21:54:21 +00:00
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nis Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): Simple self-contained fixes. 2016-09-23 08:43:55 -04:00
nptl [PR19826] fix non-LE TLS in static programs 2016-09-21 22:01:16 -03:00
nptl_db Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): obsolete BSD u_* types. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
nscd Fix incorrect double-checked locking related to _res_hconf.initialized. 2016-08-18 20:53:37 +02:00
nss Fix incorrect double-checked locking related to _res_hconf.initialized. 2016-08-18 20:53:37 +02:00
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signal Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): time.h types. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
socket Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): conditionally defined structures. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
soft-fp [soft-fp] Add support for various half-precision conversion routines. 2016-09-21 21:02:54 +00:00
stdio-common vfscanf: Avoid multiple reads of multi-byte character width 2016-09-02 15:59:34 +02:00
stdlib Add <stdint.h> integer width macros. 2016-09-21 17:06:36 +00:00
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string string: More tests for strcmp, strcasecmp, strncmp, strncasecmp 2016-08-26 14:28:46 +02:00
sunrpc Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): obsolete BSD u_* types. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
sysdeps linux: spawni.c: simplify error reporting to parent 2016-09-28 11:16:21 -07:00
sysvipc Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): time.h types. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
termios Declare tcgetsid for XPG4 (bug 20055). 2016-05-11 18:05:37 +00:00
time Installed-header hygiene (BZ#20366): time.h types. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
timezone Remove mention of checktab.awk in timezone/README. 2016-03-14 14:11:51 -04:00
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abi-tags Add arm-nacl port. 2015-04-17 09:02:19 -07:00
aclocal.m4 Rename localedir to complocaledir (bug 14259). 2015-11-27 10:22:38 -05:00
BUGS [BZ #5222] 2007-10-28 08:24:07 +00:00
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ChangeLog.5 * sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c: Implement configuration file 2006-05-04 06:38:07 +00:00
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config.h.in S390: Do not set FE_INEXACT with feraiseexcept (FE_OWERFLOW|FE_UNDERFLOW). 2016-08-31 14:54:55 +02:00
config.make.in Avoid running $(CXX) during build to obtain header file paths 2016-09-21 10:45:32 +02:00
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CONFORMANCE Move __STDC_* predefined macros from features.h to stdc-predef.h. 2012-02-22 12:53:04 +00:00
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extra-modules.mk Remove NOT_IN_libc 2014-11-24 15:03:45 +05:30
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INSTALL 2016-06-05 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> 2016-06-05 08:41:13 -07:00
libc-abis A few more archs have IFUNC support. 2010-03-17 02:43:12 -07:00
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Makerules Avoid running $(CXX) during build to obtain header file paths 2016-09-21 10:45:32 +02:00
NAMESPACE
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README Require Linux 3.2 except on x86 / x86_64, 3.2 headers everywhere. 2016-02-24 17:15:12 +00:00
Rules Installed header hygiene (BZ#20366): Test of installed headers. 2016-09-23 08:43:56 -04:00
shlib-versions This is update for configure, build and install of vector math library. 2015-05-14 18:07:06 +03:00
test-skeleton.c test-skeleton.c: Remove unintended #include <stdarg.h>. 2016-09-23 09:41:35 +02:00
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