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2014-09-19fix linked list corruption in flockfile listsRich Felker-0/+1
commit 5345c9b884e7c4e73eb2c8bb83b8d0df20f95afb added a linked list to track the FILE streams currently locked (via flockfile) by a thread. due to a failure to fully link newly added members, removal from the list could leave behind references which could later result in writes to already-freed memory and possibly other memory corruption. implicit stdio locking was unaffected; the list is only used in conjunction with explicit flockfile locking. this bug was not present in any releases; it was introduced and fixed during the same release cycle. patch by Timo Teräs, who discovered and tracked down the bug.
2014-08-23fix false ownership of stdio FILEs due to tid reuseRich Felker-1/+21
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.
2014-06-10replace all remaining internal uses of pthread_self with __pthread_selfRich Felker-1/+1
prior to version 1.1.0, the difference between pthread_self (the public function) and __pthread_self (the internal macro or inline function) was that the former would lazily initialize the thread pointer if it was not already initialized, whereas the latter would crash in this case. since lazy initialization is no longer supported, use of pthread_self no longer makes sense; it simply generates larger, slower code.
2012-11-08clean up sloppy nested inclusion from pthread_impl.hRich Felker-0/+1
this mirrors the stdio_impl.h cleanup. one header which is not strictly needed, errno.h, is left in pthread_impl.h, because since pthread functions return their error codes rather than using errno, nearly every single pthread function needs the errno constants. in a few places, rather than bringing in string.h to use memset, the memset was replaced by direct assignment. this seems to generate much better code anyway, and makes many functions which were previously non-leaf functions into leaf functions (possibly eliminating a great deal of bloat on some platforms where non-leaf functions require ugly prologue and/or epilogue).
2011-07-30add proper fuxed-based locking for stdioRich Felker-1/+2
previously, stdio used spinlocks, which would be unacceptable if we ever add support for thread priorities, and which yielded pathologically bad performance if an application attempted to use flockfile on a key file as a major/primary locking mechanism. i had held off on making this change for fear that it would hurt performance in the non-threaded case, but actually support for recursive locking had already inflicted that cost. by having the internal locking functions store a flag indicating whether they need to perform unlocking, rather than using the actual recursive lock counter, i was able to combine the conditionals at unlock time, eliminating any additional cost, and also avoid a nasty corner case where a huge number of calls to ftrylockfile could cause deadlock later at the point of internal locking. this commit also fixes some issues with usage of pthread_self conflicting with __attribute__((const)) which resulted in crashes with some compiler versions/optimizations, mainly in flockfile prior to pthread_create.
2011-04-17clean up handling of thread/nothread mode, lockingRich Felker-1/+0
2011-03-24simplify and optimize FILE lock handlingRich Felker-3/+3
2011-03-16optimize file locking: avoid cache-polluting writes to global storageRich Felker-1/+1
2011-03-12implement flockfile api, rework stdio lockingRich Felker-0/+18