fread was calling f->read without checking that the file was in
reading mode. this could:
1. crash, if f->read was a null pointer
2. cause unwanted blocking on a terminal already at eof
3. allow reading on a write-only file
1. my interpretation of subject sequence definition was wrong. adjust
parser to conform to the standard.
2. some code for handling tail overflow case was missing (forgot to
finish writing it).
3. typo (= instead of ==) caused ERANGE to wrongly behave like EINVAL
stopping without letting the parser see a stop character prevented
getting a result. so treat all high chars as the null character and
pass them into the parser.
also eliminated ugly tmp var using compound literals.
this fixes a number of bugs in integer parsing due to lazy haphazard
wrapping, as well as some misinterpretations of the standard. the new
parser is able to work character-at-a-time or on whole strings, making
it easy to support the wide functions without unbounded space for
conversion. it will also be possible to update scanf to use the new
parser.
this should not be necessary - the invalid bit patterns cannot be
created except through type punning. however, some broken gnu software
is passing them to printf and triggering dangerous stack-smashing, so
let's catch them anyway...
this is a really ugly and backwards function, but its presence will
prevent lots of broken gnulib software from trying to define its own
version of fpurge and thereby failing to build or worse.
per POSIX: The mprotect() function shall change the access protections
to be that specified by prot for those whole pages containing any part
of the address space of the process starting at address addr and
continuing for len bytes.
on the other hand, linux mprotect fails with EINVAL if the base
address and/or length is not page-aligned, so we have to align them
before making the syscall.
this is mostly useless for shared libs (though it could help for
prelink-like purposes); the intended use case is for adding support
for calling the dynamic linker directly to run a program, as in:
./libc.so ./a.out foo
this usage is not yet supported.
basically we temporarily make the library and all its dependencies
part of the global namespace but only for the duration of performing
relocations, then return them to their former state.
some of the code is not yet used, and is in preparation for dlopen
which needs to be able to handle failure loading libraries without
terminating the program.
