* NEWS: Add the list of bugs fixed in 2.29.
* manual/contrib.texi: Update contributors list with some more
names.
* manual/install.texi: Update latest versions of packages
tested.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
This is a major rewrite of the description of 'crypt', 'getentropy',
and 'getrandom'.
A few highlights of the content changes:
- Throughout the manual, public headers, and user-visible messages,
I replaced the term "password" with "passphrase", the term
"password database" with "user database", and the term
"encrypt(ion)" with "(one-way) hashing" whenever it was applied to
passphrases. I didn't bother making this change in internal code
or tests. The use of the term "password" in ruserpass.c survives,
because that refers to a keyword in netrc files, but it is adjusted
to make this clearer.
There is a note in crypt.texi explaining that they were
traditionally called passwords but single words are not good enough
anymore, and a note in users.texi explaining that actual passphrase
hashes are found in a "shadow" database nowadays.
- There is a new short introduction to the "Cryptographic Functions"
section, explaining how we do not intend to be a general-purpose
cryptography library, and cautioning that there _are_, or have
been, legal restrictions on the use of cryptography in many
countries, without getting into any kind of detail that we can't
promise to keep up to date.
- I added more detail about what a "one-way function" is, and why
they are used to obscure passphrases for storage. I removed the
paragraph saying that systems not connected to a network need no
user authentication, because that's a pretty rare situation
nowadays. (It still says "sometimes it is necessary" to
authenticate the user, though.)
- I added documentation for all of the hash functions that glibc
actually supports, but not for the additional hash functions
supported by libxcrypt. If we're going to keep this manual section
around after the transition is more advanced, it would probably
make sense to add them then.
- There is much more detailed discussion of how to generate a salt,
and the failure behavior for crypt is documented. (Returning an
invalid hash on failure is what libxcrypt does; Solar Designer's
notes say that this was done "for compatibility with old programs
that assume crypt can never fail".)
- As far as I can tell, the header 'crypt.h' is entirely a GNU
invention, and never existed on any other Unix lineage. The
function 'crypt', however, was in Issue 1 of the SVID and is now
in the XSI component of POSIX. I tried to make all of the
@standards annotations consistent with this, but I'm not sure I got
them perfectly right.
- The genpass.c example has been improved to use getentropy instead
of the current time to generate the salt, and to use a SHA-256 hash
instead of MD5. It uses more random bytes than is strictly
necessary because I didn't want to complicate the code with proper
base64 encoding.
- The testpass.c example has three hardwired hashes now, to
demonstrate that different one-way functions produce different
hashes for the same input. It also demonstrates how DES hashing
only pays attention to the first eight characters of the input.
- There is new text explaining in more detail how a CSPRNG differs
from a regular random number generator, and how
getentropy/getrandom are not exactly a CSPRNG. I tried not to make
specific falsifiable claims here. I also tried to make the
blocking/cancellation/error behavior of both getentropy and
getrandom clearer.
Since tile support has been removed from the Linux kernel for 4.17,
this patch removes the (unmaintained) port to tilegx from glibc (the
tilepro support having been previously removed). This reflects the
general principle that a glibc port needs upstream support for the
architecture in all the components it build-depends on (so binutils,
GCC and the Linux kernel, for the normal case of a port supporting the
Linux kernel but no other OS), in order to be maintainable.
Apart from removal of sysdeps/tile and sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile,
there are updates to various comments referencing tile for which
removal of those references seemed appropriate. The configuration is
removed from README and from build-many-glibcs.py. contrib.texi keeps
mention of removed contributions, but I updated Chris Metcalf's entry
to reflect that he also contributed the non-removed support for the
generic Linux kernel syscall interface.
__ASSUME_FADVISE64_64_NO_ALIGN support is removed, as it was only used
by tile.
* sysdeps/tile: Remove.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile: Likewise.
* README (tilegx-*-linux-gnu): Remove from list of supported
configurations.
* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Mention Chris Metcalf's
contribution of support for generic Linux kernel syscall
interface.
* scripts/build-many-glibcs.py (Context.add_all_configs): Remove
tilegx configurations.
(Config.install_linux_headers): Do not handle tile.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ldsodefs.h: Do not mention Tile
in comment.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/Makefile: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/posix_fadvise.c: Likewise.
[__ASSUME_FADVISE64_64_NO_ALIGN] (__ALIGNMENT_ARG): Remove
conditional undefine and redefine.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/posix_fadvise64.c: Do not mention Tile
in comment.
[__ASSUME_FADVISE64_64_NO_ALIGN] (__ALIGNMENT_ARG): Remove
conditional undefine and redefine.
This patch removes the Banner mechanism, with the last remaining
Banner file replaced by a contrib.texi entry. This accords with the
principle that the output of running libc.so.6 is not the place to
credit particular contributions (the manual is), and with all other
configuration options not mentioned there, it doesn't seem appropriate
to focus there on the one question of whether the one remaining piece
configured as an add-on was enabled or not.
Tested for x86_64.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Do not add version-info.h.
(before-compile): Likewise.
(all-Banner-files): Remove variable.
($(objpfx)version-info.h): Remove rule.
* csu/version.c (banner): Do not include "version-info.h".
* libidn/Banner: Remove.
* manual/contrib.texi (Simon Josefsson): New entry.
Various subdirectories of glibc include Banner files to put some text
in the output of executing libc.so.6, under "Available extensions".
Some of those subdirectories (e.g. crypt) may originally have been
add-ons (and so optional, so a particular glibc build might or might
not have included them), but except for libidn they aren't now (or if
only included in some builds, in the case of soft-fp, the inclusion
depends on the architecture for which glibc is configured rather than
having any glibc configuration for which it's an optional feature),
and it doesn't seem useful for the libc.so.6 output to call out a few
features like that.
This patch removes the non-add-on Banner files, updating contrib.texi
where they noted contributions not otherwise mentioned there.
Tested for x86_64.
* crypt/Banner: Remove file.
* nptl/Banner: Likewise.
* resolv/Banner: Likewise.
* soft-fp/Banner: Likewise.
* nptl/Makefile ($(objpfx)banner.h): Remove rule.
($(objpfx)version.d): Remove dependency on banner.h.
($(objpfx)version.os): Likewise.
* nptl/version.c (banner): Do not include banner.h.
* manual/contrib.texi: Update entries for Richard Henderson, Jakub
Jelinek and BIND code.
Update all translations.
Update contributions in the manual.
Update installation notes with information about newest working tools.
Reconfigure using exactly autoconf 2.69.
Regenerate INSTALL.
[BZ #13743]
A new class of installed headers has been documented for low-level
platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
function to provide time base register access (__ppc_get_timebase). This
is required for applications that measure time at high frequencies with
high precision that can't afford a syscall.
* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Fix cross reference.
* manual/libc.texinfo (Copying): Include freemanuals.
* manual/Makefile (appendices): Add freemanuals.
* manual/freemanuals.texi: New file.
Patch by Brian Youmans <3diff@gnu.org>.
* manual/libm-err-tab.pl: Pretty print more platforms, print a
smaller table.
* manual/math.texi (Errors in Math Functions): Fix grammar, start
table on separate page.
Patch by Brian Youmans <3diff@gnu.org>.
1999-06-09 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>
* stdlib/longlong.h: gas changed sethi handling when without
%hi(). Fix assembly.
* sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.c (_dl_cache_lookup): Allow
port specific cache id checks.
* sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.h: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/dl-cache.h: New file.
1998-03-18 00:25 Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk>
* posix/wordexp.c (parse_comm): Allow quoting inside $(...).
(parse_param): Fold in Andreas' fixes to do with when the end of
the parameter name has been reached, and quoting inside ${...}.
(parse_dollars): Fix differentiation between $(((1+3)*(4-2))) and
$((echo);(ls)).
1998-03-16 22:10 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* manual/maint.texi: Split out installation and contribution
sections to their own appendices. Misc cleanups.
* manual/install.texi: New file. Mention add-ons. Refer to FAQ.
* manual/contrib.texi: New file.
* manual/libc.texinfo: Pull in new appendices.
* manual/header.texi: Correct node pointer.
1998-03-17 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/process.texi (Process Completion): Clarify return value
of waitpid a bit. Patch by Zack Weinberg. [PR libc/490]
Siddhesh Poyarekar
Carlos O'Donell
Zack Weinberg
Joseph Myers
Dmitry V. Levin
H.J. Lu
Rical Jasan
Mike Frysinger
Carlos O'Donell
Allan McRae
Siddhesh Poyarekar
David S. Miller
Marcus Shawcroft
Alexandre Oliva
Thomas Schwinge
Andreas Jaeger
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
Andreas Jaeger
Roland McGrath
Ulrich Drepper