You can now do things like implement mutexes using futexes in your
redbean lua code. This provides the fastest possible inter-process
communication for your production systems when SQLite alone as ipc
or things like pipes aren't sufficient.
* Test output of colors for VGA graphics modes in examples/vga.c
* [metal] Character output in VGA graphics modes is mostly working
* [metal] Mention magic key to switch video mode, at bootup
- Shutdown process now has optimal cancellation latency
- Fairer techniques for shedding connections under load
- We no longer need to call poll() which is now removed
We need to make sure no existing mappings exist between the
MAP_GROWSDOWN page and the guard page, since otherwise it's
not going to be able to grow down thus causing difficult to
troubleshoot failures.
It can now handle 240k SQLite write QPS at 3ms 99 percentile latency.
We're still working out the kinks since it's brand new. But we've got
this running in production already!
This change also found a few POSIX compliance bugs with errnos. Another
bug was discovered where, on Windows, pread() and pwrite() could modify
the file position in cases where ReadFile() returned an error e.g. when
seeking past the end of file. We also have more tests!
This change lets you use system() in an easier and portable way. The
problem with the call in the past has always been that bourne and
cmd.com on Windows have less than nothing in common, so pretty much the
only command system() could be used for across platforms was maybe echo.
cmd.exe is also a security liability due to its escaping rules.
Since cocmd.com implements 85% of what we need from bourne, in a really
tiny way, it makes perfect sense to be embedded in these functionss. We
get a huge performance boost too.
Fixes#644
This makes it possible for us to use system() and popen() with paths
that redirect to filenames that contain spaces, e.g.
system("echo.com hello >\"hello there.txt\"")
It's difficult to solve this problem, because WIN32 only allows passing
one single argument when launching programs and each program is allowed
to tokenize that however it wants. Most software follows the convention
of cmd.exe which is poorly documented and positively byzantine.
In the future we're going to solve this by not using cmd.exe at all and
instead embedding the cocmd.com interpreter into the system() function.
In the meantime, our documentation has been updated to help recalibrate
any expectation the user might hold regarding the security of using the
Windows command interpreter.
Fixes#644
This change also introduces partial faccessat() support for zipos and
makes some slight breaking changes in errno results. close() is fixed
to use `EBADF` rather than `EINVAL` and we're now using `ENOTSUP` not
`EOPNOTSUPP` to indicate that zipos doesn't support a system call yet
This change reduces the .bss memory requirement for all executables by
O(64kb). The brk system calls are now fully tested and figured out and
might be useful for tiny programs that only target System Five.
This change improves copy_file_range(), sendfile(), splice(), openpty(),
closefrom(), close_range(), fadvise() and posix_fadvise() in addition to
writing tests that confirm things like errno and seeking behavior across
platforms. We now less aggressively polyfill behavior with some of these
functions when the platform support isn't available. Please see:
https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/functions.html
This change upgrades to the latest Chromium Zlib, fixes bugs in redbean,
and introduces better support for reverse proxies like Cloudflare. This
change improves the security of redbean and it's recommended that users
upgrade to the release that'll follow. This change also updates the docs
to clarify how to use the security tools redbean provides e.g. pledge(),
unveil(), and the MODE=asan builds which improve memory safety.
Since we're now on Windows 8, we can have clone() work as advertised on
Windows, where it sends a futex wake to the child tid. It's also likely
we no longer need to work around thread flakes on OpenBSD, in _wait0().
Doing this makes binaries tinier, since we don't need to have all the
extra code for supporting a 32-bit address space. It also benefits us
because we're able to use WIN32 futexes, which makes locking simpler.
b69f3d2488 is what officially ended our
Windows 7 support. This change is merely a formalization. You can use
old versions of Cosmo now and forevermore if you need Windows 7 since
our repository is hermetic and vendors all its dependencies.
Won't fix#617
- Fix preadv() and pwritev() for old distros
- Introduce _npassert() and _unassert() macros
- Prove that file locks work properly on Windows
- Support fcntl(F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC) on more systems
640 bytes for old kDos2Errno table
182 bytes for new kDos2Errno under hello2.com (MODE=fastbuild)
122 bytes for new kDos2Errno under hello2.com (MODE=tiny)
