This change deletes mkfifo() so that GNU Make on Windows will work in
parallel mode using its pipe-based implementation. There's an example
called greenbean2 now, which shows how to build a scalable web server
for Windows with 10k+ threads. The accuracy of clock_nanosleep is now
significantly improved on Linux.
- We now serialize the file descriptor table when spawning / executing
processes on Windows. This means you can now inherit more stuff than
just standard i/o. It's needed by bash, which duplicates the console
to file descriptor #255. We also now do a better job serializing the
environment variables, so you're less likely to encounter E2BIG when
using your bash shell. We also no longer coerce environ to uppercase
- execve() on Windows now remotely controls its parent process to make
them spawn a replacement for itself. Then it'll be able to terminate
immediately once the spawn succeeds, without having to linger around
for the lifetime as a shell process for proxying the exit code. When
process worker thread running in the parent sees the child die, it's
given a handle to the new child, to replace it in the process table.
- execve() and posix_spawn() on Windows will now provide CreateProcess
an explicit handle list. This allows us to remove handle locks which
enables better fork/spawn concurrency, with seriously correct thread
safety. Other codebases like Go use the same technique. On the other
hand fork() still favors the conventional WIN32 inheritence approach
which can be a little bit messy, but is *controlled* by guaranteeing
perfectly clean slates at both the spawning and execution boundaries
- sigset_t is now 64 bits. Having it be 128 bits was a mistake because
there's no reason to use that and it's only supported by FreeBSD. By
using the system word size, signal mask manipulation on Windows goes
very fast. Furthermore @asyncsignalsafe funcs have been rewritten on
Windows to take advantage of signal masking, now that it's much more
pleasant to use.
- All the overlapped i/o code on Windows has been rewritten for pretty
good signal and cancelation safety. We're now able to ensure overlap
data structures are cleaned up so long as you don't longjmp() out of
out of a signal handler that interrupted an i/o operation. Latencies
are also improved thanks to the removal of lots of "busy wait" code.
Waits should be optimal for everything except poll(), which shall be
the last and final demon we slay in the win32 i/o horror show.
- getrusage() on Windows is now able to report RUSAGE_CHILDREN as well
as RUSAGE_SELF, thanks to aggregation in the process manager thread.
It's now possible to use sigaltstack() to recover from stack overflows
on Windows. Several bugs in sigaltstack() have been fixed, for all our
supported platforms. There's a newer better example showing how to use
this, along with three independent unit tests just to further showcase
the various techniques.
The `cat` command now works properly, when run by itself on the bash
command prompt. It's working beautifully so far, and is only missing
a few keystrokes for clearing words and lines. Definitely works more
well than the one that ships with WIN32 :-)
Thanks to @autumnjolitz (in #876) the Cosmopolitan codebase is now
acquainted with Apple's outstanding ulock system calls which offer
something much closer to futexes than Grand Central Dispatch which
wasn't quite as good, since its wait function can't be interrupted
by signals (therefore necessitating a busy loop) and it also needs
semaphore objects to be created and freed. Even though ulock is an
internal Apple API, strictly speaking, the benefits of futexes are
so great that it's worth the risk for now especially since we have
the GCD implementation still as a quick escape hatch if it changes
Here's why this change is important for x86 XNU users. Cosmo has a
suboptimal polyfill when the operating system doesn't offer an API
that let's us implement futexes properly. Sadly we had to use that
on X86 XNU until now. The polyfill works using clock_nanosleep, to
poll the futex in a busy loop with exponential backoff. On XNU x86
clock_nanosleep suffers from us not being able to use a fast clock
gettime implementation, which had a compounding effect that's made
the polyfill function even more poorly. On X86 XNU we also need to
polyfill sched_yield() using select(), which made things even more
troublesome. Now that we have futexes we don't have any busy loops
anymore for both condition variables and thread joining so optimal
performance is attained. To demonstrate, consider these benchmarks
Before:
$ ./lockscale_test.com -b
consumed 38.8377 seconds real time and
0.087131 seconds cpu time
After:
$ ./lockscale_test.com -b
consumed 0.007955 seconds real time and
0.011515 seconds cpu time
Fixes#876
- This change fixes a bug that allowed unbuffered printf() output (to
streams like stderr) to be truncated. This regression was introduced
some time between now and the last release.
- POSIX specifies all functions as thread safe by default. This change
works towards cleaning up our use of the @threadsafe / @threadunsafe
documentation annotations to reflect that. The goal is (1) to use
@threadunsafe to document functions which POSIX say needn't be thread
safe, and (2) use @threadsafe to document functions that we chose to
implement as thread safe even though POSIX didn't mandate it.
- Tidy up the clock_gettime() implementation. We're now trying out a
cleaner approach to system call support that aims to maintain the
Linux errno convention as long as possible. This also fixes bugs that
existed previously, where the vDSO errno wasn't being translated
properly. The gettimeofday() system call is now a wrapper for
clock_gettime(), which reduces bloat in apps that use both.
- The recently-introduced improvements to the execute bit on Windows has
had bugs fixed. access(X_OK) on a directory on Windows now succeeds.
fstat() will now perform the MZ/#! ReadFile() operation correctly.
- Windows.h is no longer included in libc/isystem/, because it confused
PCRE's build system into thinking Cosmopolitan is a WIN32 platform.
Cosmo's Windows.h polyfill was never even really that good, since it
only defines a subset of the subset of WIN32 APIs that Cosmo defines.
- The setlongerjmp() / longerjmp() APIs are removed. While they're nice
APIs that are superior to the standardized setjmp / longjmp functions,
they weren't superior enough to not be dead code in the monorepo. If
you use these APIs, please file an issue and they'll be restored.
- The .com appending magic has now been removed from APE Loader.
This test broke itself due to relying on the current time. Mocking out
gettimeofday() confirms this. However, two ipv4 subject alt name tests
still surprisingly fail even with a fake current time. We'll want this
investigated further soon.
Unlike CMD.EXE, CreateProcess() doesn't care if an executable name ends
with .COM or .EXE. We now have the unbourne shell and bash working well
on Windows, so we don't need DOS anymore. Making this change will grant
us better performance, particularly for builds, because commandv() will
need to make fewer system calls. Path mangling magic still happens with
WinMain() and ntspawn() in order to do things like turn \ into / so the
interop works well at the borders. But all the code in libraries, which
did that, has been removed. It's not possible for libraries to abstract
the differences between paths.
- Improved async signal safety of read() particularly for longjmp()
- Started adding cancel cleanup handlers for locks / etc on Windows
- Make /dev/tty work better particularly for uses like `foo | less`
- Eagerly read console input into a linked list, so poll can signal
- Fix some libc definitional bugs, which configure scripts detected
- Every unit test now passes on Apple Silicon. The final piece of this
puzzle was porting our POSIX threads cancelation support, since that
works differently on ARM64 XNU vs. AMD64. Our semaphore support on
Apple Silicon is also superior now compared to AMD64, thanks to the
grand central dispatch library which lets *NSYNC locks go faster.
- The Cosmopolitan runtime is now more stable, particularly on Windows.
To do this, thread local storage is mandatory at all runtime levels,
and the innermost packages of the C library is no longer being built
using ASAN. TLS is being bootstrapped with a 128-byte TIB during the
process startup phase, and then later on the runtime re-allocates it
either statically or dynamically to support code using _Thread_local.
fork() and execve() now do a better job cooperating with threads. We
can now check how much stack memory is left in the process or thread
when functions like kprintf() / execve() etc. call alloca(), so that
ENOMEM can be raised, reduce a buffer size, or just print a warning.
- POSIX signal emulation is now implemented the same way kernels do it
with pthread_kill() and raise(). Any thread can interrupt any other
thread, regardless of what it's doing. If it's blocked on read/write
then the killer thread will cancel its i/o operation so that EINTR can
be returned in the mark thread immediately. If it's doing a tight CPU
bound operation, then that's also interrupted by the signal delivery.
Signal delivery works now by suspending a thread and pushing context
data structures onto its stack, and redirecting its execution to a
trampoline function, which calls SetThreadContext(GetCurrentThread())
when it's done.
- We're now doing a better job managing locks and handles. On NetBSD we
now close semaphore file descriptors in forked children. Semaphores on
Windows can now be canceled immediately, which means mutexes/condition
variables will now go faster. Apple Silicon semaphores can be canceled
too. We're now using Apple's pthread_yield() funciton. Apple _nocancel
syscalls are now used on XNU when appropriate to ensure pthread_cancel
requests aren't lost. The MbedTLS library has been updated to support
POSIX thread cancelations. See tool/build/runitd.c for an example of
how it can be used for production multi-threaded tls servers. Handles
on Windows now leak less often across processes. All i/o operations on
Windows are now overlapped, which means file pointers can no longer be
inherited across dup() and fork() for the time being.
- We now spawn a thread on Windows to deliver SIGCHLD and wakeup wait4()
which means, for example, that posix_spawn() now goes 3x faster. POSIX
spawn is also now more correct. Like Musl, it's now able to report the
failure code of execve() via a pipe although our approach favors using
shared memory to do that on systems that have a true vfork() function.
- We now spawn a thread to deliver SIGALRM to threads when setitimer()
is used. This enables the most precise wakeups the OS makes possible.
- The Cosmopolitan runtime now uses less memory. On NetBSD for example,
it turned out the kernel would actually commit the PT_GNU_STACK size
which caused RSS to be 6mb for every process. Now it's down to ~4kb.
On Apple Silicon, we reduce the mandatory upstream thread size to the
smallest possible size to reduce the memory overhead of Cosmo threads.
The examples directory has a program called greenbean which can spawn
a web server on Linux with 10,000 worker threads and have the memory
usage of the process be ~77mb. The 1024 byte overhead of POSIX-style
thread-local storage is now optional; it won't be allocated until the
pthread_setspecific/getspecific functions are called. On Windows, the
threads that get spawned which are internal to the libc implementation
use reserve rather than commit memory, which shaves a few hundred kb.
- sigaltstack() is now supported on Windows, however it's currently not
able to be used to handle stack overflows, since crash signals are
still generated by WIN32. However the crash handler will still switch
to the alt stack, which is helpful in environments with tiny threads.
- Test binaries are now smaller. Many of the mandatory dependencies of
the test runner have been removed. This ensures many programs can do a
better job only linking the the thing they're testing. This caused the
test binaries for LIBC_FMT for example, to decrease from 200kb to 50kb
- long double is no longer used in the implementation details of libc,
except in the APIs that define it. The old code that used long double
for time (instead of struct timespec) has now been thoroughly removed.
- ShowCrashReports() is now much tinier in MODE=tiny. Instead of doing
backtraces itself, it'll just print a command you can run on the shell
using our new `cosmoaddr2line` program to view the backtrace.
- Crash report signal handling now works in a much better way. Instead
of terminating the process, it now relies on SA_RESETHAND so that the
default SIG_IGN behavior can terminate the process if necessary.
- Our pledge() functionality has now been fully ported to AARCH64 Linux.
This changes *NSYNC to allocate waiters on the stack so our locks don't
need to depend on dynamic memory. This make our runtiem simpler, and it
also fixes bugs with thread cancellation support.
The stdio reader thread now appears to be working recursively along
cosmopolitan subprocesses. For example, it's now possible to launch
vim.com from the unbourne.com bestline repl, thanks to hacks plus a
bug fix to select() timeouts.
- Polyfill readlink("foo/") dir check on Windows
- Support asynchronous signal delivery on Windows
- Restore Windows Console from execve() daisy chain
- Work around bug in AARCH64 Optimized Routines memcmp()
- Disable unbourne.com shell completion on Windows for now
- Don't always set virtual terminal input state on console
- Remove Musl Libc's unusual preservation of realpath("//")
- Make realpath() strongly link malloc() to pass configure test
- Delete cosh.com shell, now that unbourne.com works on Windows!
- Invent openatemp() API
- Invent O_UNLINK open flag
- Introduce getenv_secure() API
- Remove `git pull` from cosmocc
- Fix utimes() when path is NULL
- Fix mktemp() to never return NULL
- Fix utimensat() UTIME_OMIT on XNU
- Improve utimensat() code for RHEL5
- Turn `argv[0]` C:/ to /C/ on Windows
- Introduce tmpnam() and tmpnam_r() APIs
- Fix more const issues with internal APIs
- Permit utimes() on WIN32 in O_RDONLY mode
- Fix fdopendir() to check fd is a directory
- Fix recent crash regression in landlock make
- Fix futimens(AT_FDCWD, NULL) to return EBADF
- Use workaround so `make -j` doesn't fork bomb
- Rename dontdiscard to __wur (just like glibc)
- Fix st_size for WIN32 symlinks containing UTF-8
- Introduce stdio ext APIs needed by GNU coreutils
- Fix lstat() on WIN32 for symlinks to directories
- Move some constants from normalize.inc to limits.h
- Fix segv with memchr() and memcmp() overlapping page
- Implement POSIX fflush() behavior for reader streams
- Implement AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW for utimensat() on WIN32
- Don't change read-only status of existing files on WIN32
- Correctly handle `0x[^[:xdigit:]]` case in strtol() functions
This change fixes Cosmopolitan so it has fewer opinions about compiler
warnings. The whole repository had to be cleaned up to be buildable in
-Werror -Wall mode. This lets us benefit from things like strict const
checking. Some actual bugs might have been caught too.
- Introduce ualarm() function
- Make rename() report EISEMPTY on Windows
- Always raise EINVAL upon open(O_RDONLY|O_TRUNC)
- Add macro so ./configure will detect SOCK_CLOEXEC
- Fix O_TRUNC without O_CREAT not working on Windows
- Let fcntl(F_SETFL) change O_APPEND status on Windows
- Make sure pwrite() / pread() report ESPIPE on sockets
- Raise ESPIPE on Windows when pwrite() is used on pipe
- Properly compute O_APPEND CreateFile() flags on Windows
- Don't require O_DIRECTORY to open directories on Windows
- Fix more instances of Windows reporting EISDIR and ENOTDIR
- Normalize EFTYPE and EMLINK to ELOOP on NetBSD and FreeBSD
- Make unlink() / rmdir() work on read-only files on Windows
- Validate UTF-8 on Windows paths to fix bug with overlong NUL
- Always print signal name to stderr when crashing due to SIG_DFL
- Fix Windows bug where denormalized paths >260 chars didn't work
- Block signals on BSDs when thread exits before trashing its own stack
- Get SIGWINCH working again on the New Technology
- Correctly handle O_NOFOLLOW in open() on Windows
- Implement synthetic umask() functionality on Windows
- Do a better job managing file execute access on Windows
- Fill in `st_uid` and `st_gid` with username hash on Windows
- Munge UNICODE control pictures into control codes on Windows
- Do a better job ensuring Windows console settings are restored
- Introduce KPRINTF_LOG environment variable to log kprintf to a file
- Fix mkdeps.com out of memory error
- Remove static memory from __get_cpu_count()
- Add support for passing hyphen to cat in cocmd
- Change more ZipOS errors from ENOTSUP to EROFS
- Specify mem_unit in sysinfo() output on BSD OSes
This change improves the dirstream library in a lot of respects,
especially for /zip/... files. Also turn off MAP_STACK on Aarch64
because Qemu seems to implement it differently than Linux and it's
probably responsible for a lot of mysterious crashes.
This way complex runtime features (e.g. ftrace, symbol tables) can
always yoink zipos support. This is important now that apelink.com
automates embedding symbol tables for multiple cpus.
This test fails if Cosmo builds from a path that contains an uppercase character.
Paths with uppercase characters aren’t so common in server Linux. But they are in *desktop* Linux. Guess how I…?
But I digress.
The real problem is that the path is lowercased on one line, but not the next:
```
self.file_name = support.TESTFN.lower()
self.file_path = FakePath(support.TESTFN)
```
Given that no other test in the suite lowercases `support.TESTFN`, I opted to remove it from the first line rather than adding it to the second.
This change has the insight that dwExitCode isn't an exit code but
rather should be used to pass the wait status. This lets us report
killing as a termination status, similar to UNIX. This change also
fixes the fact that exit(259) on Windows will break the parent due
way WIN32 is designed. We now work around that.
It turns out that NetBSD and OpenBSD, will let you have exit codes
beyond 255. This change will let you use them when it's possible.
This change makes posix_spawn_test no longer flaky on Windows, by (1)
fixing a race condition in wait(), and (2) removing a misguided vfork
implementation which was letting Windows bypass pthread_atfork().
- Remove PAGESIZE constant
- Fix realloc() documentation
- Fix ttyname_r() error reporting
- Make forking more reliable on Windows
- Make execvp() a few microseconds faster
- Make system() a few microseconds faster
- Tighten up the socket-related magic numbers
- Loosen restrictions on mmap() offset alignment
- Improve GetProgramExecutableName() with getenv("_")
- Use mkstemp() as basis for mktemp(), tmpfile(), tmpfd()
- Fix flakes in pthread_cancel_test, unix_test, fork_test
- Fix recently introduced futex stack overflow regression
- Let sockets be passed as stdio to subprocesses on Windows
- Improve security of bind() on Windows w/ SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE
This change ports APE Loader to Linux AARCH64, so that Raspberry Pi
users can run programs like redbean, without the executable needing
to modify itself. Progress has also slipped into this change on the
issue of making progress better conforming to user expectations and
industry standards regarding which symbols we're allowed to declare
- tcgetpgrp(STDIN_FILENO) should be equal to getpgrp() on Windows also,
found while reading wget source code which uses this check to decide
whether to print to stderr or to a file
- IN6_ADDR_ARE_EQUAL is a comparison macro used when IPV6 is allowed,
found while reading CPython3.11 source code
- the changes in signal.h and addition of ucontext.h are because
CPython3.11 source code expect sigaltstack to be available
- the sqlite3.mk change is because CPython3.11 requires sqlite3 to be
built with -DOMIT_SHARED_CACHE
- unistd.h has getopt.h now, because some libraries like it there
This change introduces new tests for `O_NONBLOCK` and `SOCK_NONBLOCK` to
confirm that non-blocking i/o is now working on all supported platforms,
including Windows. For example, you can now say on Windows, MacOS, etc.:
socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM | SOCK_NONBLOCK, IPPROTO_TCP);
To create a non-blocking IPv4 TCP socket. Or you can enable non-blocking
i/o on an existing socket / pipe / etc. file descriptor by calling fcntl
fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) | O_NONBLOCK);
This functionality is polyfilled on older Linux kernels too, e.g. RHEL5.
Now that fcntl() support is much better the FIOCLEX / FIONCLEX polyfills
for ioctl() have been removed since they're ugly non-POSIX diameond APIs
This change fixes a weakness in kprintf() that was causing Windows trace
tools to frequently crash.
- This commit mints a new release of APE Loader v1.2 which supports
loading ELF programs with a non-contiguous virtual address layout
even though we've never been able to take advantage of it, due to
how `objcopy -SO binary` fills any holes left by PT_LOAD. This'll
change soon, since we'll have a new way of creating APE binaries.
- The undiamonding trick with our ioctl() implementation is removed
since POSIX has been killing ioctl() for years and they've done a
much better job. One problem it resolves, is that ioctl(FIONREAD)
wasn't working earlier and that caused issues when building Emacs
- Fix unused local variable errors
- Remove yoinks from sigaction() header
- Add nox87 and aarch64 to github actions
- Fix cosmocc -fportcosmo in linking mode
- It's now possible to build `make m=llvm o/llvm/libc`
- compile.com now polyfills -march=native which gcc/clang removed
- Guarantee zero Windows code is linked into non-Windows binaries
- MODE=tinylinux binaries are now back to being as tiny as ~4kb
- Improve the runtime's stack allocation / alignment hack
- GitHub Actions now tests Linux modes for assurance
- Fix handling of precision in hex float formatting
- Enhance the cocmd interpreter for system() and popen()
- Manually ran the Lua unit tests, which are now passing
- Let stdio i/o operations happen when file is in error state
- We're now saving and restoring xmm in ftrace out of paranoia
It turned out that Landlock Make hasn't been applying sandboxing for a
while, due to a mistyped if statement for `$(USE_SYSTEM_TOOLCHAIN)` it
should have had the opposite meaning. Regressions in the build configs
have been fixed. The rmrf() function works better now. The rm.com tool
works according to POSIX with the exception of supporting prompts.
This change figures out some of the build configuration issues we've
been having with libcxx. The c++ span header is added. Per a Discord
discussion we're now turning off `-g` for the default build mode, so
consider using `make MODE=dbg` or `make MODE=zero` for GDB debugging
which works much better than `MODE=` ever has. Note that the default
build mode has always had very good function call / system call logs
plus you can still use ShowCrashReports() for backtrace. Making this
change ensures cosmocc will better conform to FOSS norms. Lastly the
LoadZipArgs() API has been added to cosmopolitan.a and <cosmo.h>.
This adds support for __cxa_demangle through the cxxabi.h file.
At the moment it is the only symbol included.
The source was taken from FreeBSD
contrib/libcxxrt/libelftc_dem_gnu3.c
2176c9ab71c85efd90a6c7af4a9e04fe8e3d49ca
FreeBSD does say this is also almost verbatim from ELFToolkit
This change fixes stderr to be unbuffered. Added hardware AES on ARM64
to help safeguard against timing attacks. The curl.com command will be
somewhat more pleasant to use.
The *NSYNC linked list API is good enough that it deserves to be part of
the C libray, so this change writes an improved version of it which uses
that offsetof() trick from the Linux Kernel. We vendor all of the *NSYNC
tests in third_party which helped confirm the needed refactoring is safe
This change also deletes more old code that didn't pan out. My goal here
is to work towards a vision where the Cosmopolitan core libraries become
less experimental and more focused on curation. This better reflects the
current level of quality we've managed to achieve.
After going through the MODE=dbg and MODE=zero build modes, a bunch of
little issues were identified, which have been addressed. Fixing those
issues created even more troubles for the project, because it improved
our ability to detect latent problems which are getting fixed so fast.
The intent with pledge("anet") has been to prevent outbound connections.
However we were only doing that for TCP sockets, and outbound UDP could
still get through, by using socket() plus sendto(). This change fixed
that by preventing UDP sockets from being created.
Credit goes to chc4 on Hacker News for finding this.
- Found some bugs in LLVM compiler-rt library
- The useless LIBC_STUBS package is now deleted
- Improve the overflow checking story even further
- Get chibicc tests working in MODE=dbg mode again
- The libc/isystem/ headers now have correctly named guards
This change upgrades to the latest portcosmo gcc patch
6728fe1a25185560603ca312a8d4352af2a4e515 which lets us avoid needing to
define __tmpcosmo_FOO constants. We're now using an appropriate binutils
version for GCC 11. The older binutils sometimes wasn't able to print
backtraces, due to not being able to find a .debug_ranges section.
This is breaking change for /opt/cosmos libraries :'( due to this weird
"error: need linked-to section for --gc-sections" that pops up.
Please run `make clean` in the monorepo before rebuilding.
- More timspec_*() and timeval_*() APIs have been introduced.
- The copyfd() function is now simplified thanks to POSIX rules.
- More Cosmo-specific APIs have been moved behind the COSMO define.
- The setitimer() polyfill for Windows NT is now much higher quality.
- Fixed build error for MODE=aarch64 due to -mstringop-strategy=loop.
- This change introduces `make MODE=nox87 toolchain` which makes it
possible to build programs using your cosmocc toolchain that don't
have legacy fpu instructions. This is useful, for example, if you
want to have a ~22kb tinier blink virtual machine.
This change fixes an issue with the tcflow() magic numbers that was
causing bash to freeze up on Linux. While auditing termios polyfills,
several other issues were identified with XNU/BSD compatibility.
Out of an abundance of caution this change undefines as much surface
area from libc/calls/struct/termios.h as possible, so that autoconf
scripts are less likely to detect non-POSIX teletypewriter APIs that
haven't been polyfilled by Cosmopolitan.
This is a *breaking change* for your static archives in /opt/cosmos if
you use the cosmocc toolchain. That's because this change disables the
ioctl() undiamonding trick for code outside the monorepo, specifically
because it'll lead to brittle ABI breakages like this. If you're using
the cosmocc toolchain, you'll need to rebuild libraries like ncurses,
readline, etc. Yes diamonds cause bloat. To work around that, consider
using tcgetwinsize() instead of ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ) since it'll help you
avoid pulling every single ioctl-related polyfill into the linkage.
The cosmocc script was specifying -DNDEBUG for some reason. It's fixed.
This change takes an entirely new approach to the incremental linking of
pkzip executables. The assets created by zipobj.com are now treated like
debug data. After a .com.dbg is compiled, fixupobj.com should be run, so
it can apply fixups to the offsets and move the zip directory to the end
of the file. Since debug data doesn't get objcopy'd, a new tool has been
introduced called zipcopy.com which should be run after objcopy whenever
a .com file is created. This is all automated by the `cosmocc` toolchain
which is rapidly becoming the new recommended approach.
This change also introduces the new C23 checked arithmetic macros.
This change improves the way internal APIs are being hidden behind the
`COSMO` define. The cosmo.h header will take care of defining that, so
that a separate define statement isn't needed. This change also does a
lot more to define which APIs are standard, and which belong to Cosmo.
This change integrates e58abc1110b335a3341e8ad5821ad8e3880d9bb2 from
https://github.com/ahgamut/musl-cross-make/ which fixes the issues we
were having with our C language extension for symbolic constants. This
change also performs some code cleanup and bug fixes to getaddrinfo().
It's now possible to compile projects like ncurses, readline and python
without needing to patch anything upstream, except maybe a line or two.
Pretty soon it should be possible to build a Linux distro on Cosmo.
In order to improve our chances of success building other open source
projects we shouldn't define APIs that'll lead any ./configure script
astray. For example:
- brk() and sbrk() can break mac/windows support
- syscall() is a superb way to break portability
- arch_prctl() is the greatest of all horror shows
- Work towards improving non-optimized build support
- Introduce MODE=zero which is -O0 without ASAN/UBSAN
- Use system GCC when ~/.cosmo.mk has USE_SYSTEM_TOOLCHAIN=1
- Have package.com check .privileged code doesn't call non-privileged
- Get mprotect_test working on aarch64
- Get completion working on python.com repl again
- Improve quality of printvideo.com and printimage.com
- Fix bug in openpty() so examples/script.c works again
This change greatly reduces the number of modules that need to be
compiled. The only issue right now is that sometimes when viewing
symbol table entries, the aliased symbol is chosen.
This change implements a new approach to function call logging, that's
based on the GCC flag: -fpatchable-function-entry. Read the commentary
in build/config.mk to learn how it works.
- Now using 10x better GCD semaphores
- We now generate Linux-like thread ids
- We now use fast system clock / sleep libraries
- The APE M1 loader now generates Linux-like stacks
llama.com can now load weights that use the new file format which was
introduced a few weeks ago. Note that, unlike llama.cpp, we will keep
support for old file formats in our tool so you don't need to convert
your weights when the upstream project makes breaking changes. Please
note that using ggjt v3 does make avx2 inference go 5% faster for me.
This change progresses our AARCH64 support:
- The AARCH64 build and tests are now passing
- Add 128-bit floating-point support to printf()
- Fix clone() so it initializes cosmo's x28 TLS register
- Fix TLS memory layout issue with aarch64 _Alignas vars
- Revamp microbenchmarking tools so they work on aarch64
- Make some subtle improvements to aarch64 crash reporting
- Make kisdangerous() memory checks more accurate on aarch64
- Remove sys_open() since it's not available on Linux AARCH64
This change makes general improvements to Cosmo and Redbean:
- Introduce GetHostIsa() function in Redbean
- You can now feature check using pledge(0, 0)
- You can now feature check using unveil("",0)
- Refactor some more x86-specific asm comments
- Refactor and write docs for some libm functions
- Make the mmap() API behave more similar to Linux
- Fix WIFSIGNALED() which wrongly returned true for zero
- Rename some obscure cosmo keywords from noFOO to dontFOO
There's a new program named ape/ape-m1.c which will be used to build an
embeddable binary that can load ape and elf executables. The support is
mostly working so far, but still chasing down ABI issues.
- Fix UX issues with llama.com
- Do housekeeping on libm code
- Add more vectorization to GGML
- Get GGJT quantizer programs working well
- Have the quantizer keep the output layer as f16c
- Prefetching improves performance 15% if you use fewer threads
- Perform some housekeeping on scalar math function code
- Import ARM's Optimized Routines for SIMD string processing
- Upgrade to latest Chromium zlib and enable more SIMD optimizations
- Introduce epoll_pwait()
- Rewrite -ftrapv and ffs() libraries in C code
- Use more FreeBSD code in math function library
- Get significantly more tests passing on qemu-aarch64
- Fix many Musl long double functions that were broken on AARCH64
make -j8 o//third_party/radpajama/radpajama.com
make -j8 o//third_party/radpajama/radpajama-chat.com
This change gets the radpajama.mk config working. This package depends
on THIRD_PARTY_GGML but it's configured to call ggjt_v1(), so that the
library will provide the old quantizers. The ggml_quantize_chunk() API
will now dispatch to older quantizers based on the configured version.
This change makes quantized models (e.g. q4_0) go 10% faster on Macs
however doesn't offer much improvement for Intel PC hardware.
This change syncs llama.cpp 699b1ad7fe6f7b9e41d3cb41e61a8cc3ea5fc6b5
which recently made a breaking change to nearly all its file formats
without any migration. Since that'll break hundreds upon hundreds of
models on websites like HuggingFace llama.com will support both file
formats because llama.com will never ever break the GGJT file format
- Utilities like pledge.com now build
- kprintf() will no longer balk at 48-bit addresses
- There's a new aarch64-dbg build mode that should work
- gc() and defer() are mostly pacified; avoid using them on aarch64
- THIRD_PART_STB now has Arm Neon intrinsics for fast image handling
Example use case for JSON completion:
$ m=opt
$ make -j16 m=$m o/$m/third_party/ggml/llama.com
$ o/$m/third_party/ggml/llama.com -m llama.bin -p '{"key": "life", "val": ' -r '}'
42}
This provides better control. More sophisticated facilities for
controlling text generation will be provided soon enough.
We can once again create 2mb statically-linked Python binaries:
$ make -j8 m=tiny o/tiny/examples/pyapp/pyapp.com
$ ls -hal o/tiny/examples/pyapp/pyapp.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jart jart 2.1M May 1 14:04 o/tiny/examples/pyapp/pyapp.com
$ o/tiny/examples/pyapp/pyapp.com
cosmopolitan is cool!
The regression was caused by Python thread support in b15f9eb58
- Introduce -v and --verbose flags
- Don't print stats / diagnostics unless -v is passed
- Reduce --top_p default from 0.95 to 0.70
- Change --reverse-prompt to no longer imply --interactive
- Permit --reverse-prompt specifying custom EOS if non-interactive
Python threads are now generally working, however some parts of Python's
regression tests for threads are flaky. This is possibly due to needing
more locking primitives in Cosmo's IO system call wrappers, e.g. close.
make o//third_party/python/Lib/test/test_threading.py.runs
See #747
- enable WITH_THREAD and _POSIX_THREADS
- add headers everywhere
- breaks only two tests (faulthandler and signal)
- disabled terminal completion because it causes segfaults for some
reason (probably could not get the current thread)
- Improve compatibility with Blink virtual machine
- Add non-POSIX APIs for joining threads and signal masks
- Never ever use anything except 32-bit integers for atomics
- Add some `#undef` statements to workaround `ctags` problems
libc/integral changes aren't checked in the build dependency, due to
being explicitly listed in .UNVEIL, which is how this breakage ended
up accidentally slipping through the cracks.
- clock_nanosleep() is now much faster on OpenBSD and NetBSD
- Thread joining is now much faster on NetBSD
- FreeBSD timestamps are now more accurate
- Thread spawning now goes faster on XNU
- Clean up the clone() code
- Clean up sigaction() code
- Add a port scanner example
- Introduce a ParseCidr() API
- Clean up our futex abstraction code
- Fix a harmless integer overflow in ParseIp()
- Use kernel semaphores on NetBSD to make threads much faster
- Exhaustively document cancellation points
- Rename SIGCANCEL to SIGTHR just like BSDs
- Further improve POSIX thread cancellations
- Ensure asynchronous cancellations work correctly
- Elevate the quality of getrandom() and getentropy()
- Make futexes cancel correctly on OpenBSD 6.x and 7.x
- Add reboot.com and shutdown.com to examples directory
- Remove underscore prefix from awesome timespec_*() APIs
- Create assertions that help verify our cancellation points
- Remove bad timespec APIs (cmp generalizes eq/ne/gt/gte/lt/lte)
This change makes some miracle modifications to the System Five system
call support, which lets us have safe, correct, and atomic handling of
thread cancellations. It all turned out to be cheaper than anticipated
because it wasn't necessary to modify the system call veneers. We were
able to encode the cancellability of each system call into the magnums
found in libc/sysv/syscalls.sh. Since cancellations are so waq, we are
also supporting a lovely Musl Libc mask feature for raising ECANCELED.
- ASAN memory morgue is now lockless
- Make C11 atomics header more portable
- Rewrote pthread keys support to be lockless
- Simplify Python's unicode table unpacking code
- Make crash report write(2) closer to being atomic
- Make it possible to strace/ftrace a single thread
- ASAN now checks nul-terminated strings fast and properly
- Windows fork() now restores TLS memory of calling thread
- Invent iso8601us() for faster timestamps
- Improve --strace descriptions of sigset_t
- Rebuild the Landlock Make bootstrap binary
- Introduce MODE=sysv for non-Windows builds
- Permit OFD fcntl() locks under pledge(flock)
- redbean can now protect your kernel from ddos
- Have vfork() fallback to sys_fork() not fork()
- Change kmalloc() to not die when out of memory
- Improve documentation for some termios functions
- Rewrite putenv() and friends to conform to POSIX
- Fix linenoise + strace verbosity issue on Windows
- Fix regressions in our ability to show backtraces
- Change redbean SetHeader() to no-op if value is nil
- Improve fcntl() so SQLite locks work in non-WAL mode
- Remove some unnecessary work during fork() on Windows
- Create redbean-based SSL reverse proxy for IPv4 TurfWar
- Fix ape/apeinstall.sh warning when using non-bash shells
- Add ProgramTrustedIp(), and IsTrustedIp() APIs to redbean
- Support $PWD, $UID, $GID, and $EUID in command interpreter
- Introduce experimental JTqFpD APE prefix for non-Windows builds
- Invent blackhole daemon for firewalling IP addresses via UNIX named socket
- Add ProgramTokenBucket(), AcquireToken(), and CountTokens() APIs to redbean
If threads are being used, then fork() will now acquire and release and
runtime locks so that fork() may be safely used from threads. This also
makes vfork() thread safe, because pthread mutexes will do nothing when
the process is a child of vfork(). More torture tests have been written
to confirm this all works like a charm. Additionally:
- Invent hexpcpy() api
- Rename nsync_malloc_() to kmalloc()
- Complete posix named semaphore implementation
- Make pthread_create() asynchronous signal safe
- Add rm, rmdir, and touch to command interpreter builtins
- Invent sigisprecious() and modify sigset functions to use it
- Add unit tests for posix_spawn() attributes and fix its bugs
One unresolved problem is the reclaiming of *NSYNC waiter memory in the
forked child processes, within apps which have threads waiting on locks
This lets our system() and popen() commands function sort of like
BusyBox and ToyBox. By default the Cosmopolitan Shell is lightweight.
But if you use STATIC_YOINK then you can pull the individual commands
you want into the linkage, and they'll be included in a single binary.
For example the demo binary embeds `tr` and `sed` and ends up ~140kb.
- SQLite file locking now works on Windows
- SQLite will now use fdatasync() on non-Apple platforms
- Fix Ctrl-C handler on Windows to not crash with TLS
- Signals now work in multithreaded apps on Windows
- fcntl() will now accurately report EINVAL errors
- fcntl() now has excellent --strace logging
- Token bucket replenish now go 100x faster
- *NSYNC cancellations now work on Windows
- Support closefrom() on NetBSD
The cosmopolitan command interpreter now has 13 builtin commands,
variable support, support for ; / && / || syntax, asynchronous support,
and plenty of unit tests with bug fixes.
This change fixes a bug in posix_spawn() with null envp arg. strace
logging now uses atomic writes for scatter functions. Breaking change
renaming GetCpuCount() to _getcpucount(). TurfWar is now updated to use
the new token bucket algorithm. WIN32 affinity masks now inherit across
fork() and execve().
This change addresses various open source compatibility issues, so that
we pass 313/411 of the tests in https://github.com/jart/libc-test where
earlier today we were passing about 30/411 of them, due to header toil.
Please note that Glibc only passes 341/411 so 313 today is pretty good!
- Make the conformance of libc/isystem/ headers nearly perfect
- Import more of the remaining math library routines from Musl
- Fix inconsistencies with type signatures of calls like umask
- Write tests for getpriority/setpriority which work great now
- conform to `struct sockaddr *` on remaining socket functions
- Import a bunch of uninteresting stdlib functions e.g. rand48
- Introduce readdir_r, scandir, pthread_kill, sigsetjmp, etc..
Follow the instructions in our `tool/scripts/cosmocc` toolchain to run
these tests yourself. You use `make CC=cosmocc` on the test repository
- Change IDT code so kprintf() isn't mandatory dependency
- Document current intentions around pthread_cancel()
- Make _npassert() an _unassert() in MODE=tiny
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.
* Proof of concept of sqlite serialization
This is a minimal proof of concept in order to show that it is easily possible to store the sqlite database within the zip file itself not requiring creating an external file first. Changes include compiling the sqlite library with the serialization flag, adding serialize/deserialize to the lua sqlite library and demonstrating the work via the redbean demo.
* Change demo for sqlite serialization
As explained in https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/pull/436#issuecomment-1164706893 the original use case is not possible with sqlite serialization, as an in-memory database cannot be shared across multiple processes. Thereby, this use case simply creates a backup of the in-memory database created in '.init.lua' and loads it to do a query.
* Fix sqlite3_deserialize parameters
The call to the sqlite3 library for the deserilization wasn't fully correct. This should fix the size parameters.
- 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
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 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
