The "no modify self" variant of Actually Portable Executable is now
supported on all platforms. If you use `$(APE_NO_MODIFY_SELF)` then
ld.bfd will embed a 4096 byte ELF binary and a 4096 byte Macho file
which are installed on the fly to ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}, which enables us
launch the executable, without needing to copy the whole executable
To prevent it from copying a tiny executable to your temp directory
you need to install the `ape` command (renamed from ape-loader), to
a system path. For example:
# FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD
make -j8 o//ape/ape
cp o//ape/ape /usr/bin/ape
# Mac OS
# make -j8 o//ape/ape.macho
curl https://justine.lol/ape.macho >/usr/bin/ape
chmod +x /usr/bin/ape
On Linux you can get even more performance with the new binfmt_misc
support which makes launching non-modifying APE binaries as fast as
launching ELF executables. Running the following command:
# Linux
ape/apeinstall.sh
Will copy APE loader to /usr/bin/ape and register with binfmt_misc
Lastly, this change also fixes a really interesting race condition
with OpenBSD thread joining.
The `HDRS` and/or `INCS` variables need to be defined in order for
`mkdeps.com` to compute build dependencies for `o//depend`. We're using
INCS here since makeint.h is the evil kind of header that isn't actually
defining a library interface but rather is a hodgepodge of common code.
In site.py, Python uses os.name to decide where the USER_SITE (ie the
folder containing the user's locally installed packages) is located.
With cosmo we have set os.name as "posix" always, so we use a new
os.realname to decide the USER_SITE location.
- Document more compiler flags
- Expose new __print_maps() api
- Better overflow checking in mmap()
- Improve the shell example somewhat
- Fix minor runtime bugs regarding stacks
- Make kill() on fork()+execve()'d children work
- Support CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for proper joining
- Fix recent possible deadlock regression with --ftrace
This change fixes a nasty regression caused by
80b211e314 which deadlocked.
This change also causes MbedTLS to prefer the ChaCha ciphersuite on
older CPUs that don't have AES hardware instructions.
- add vdso dump utility
- tests now log stack usage
- rename g_ftrace to __ftrace
- make internal spinlocks go faster
- add conformant c11 atomics library
- function tracing now logs stack usage
- make function call tracing thread safe
- add -X unsecure (no ssl) mode to redbean
- munmap() has more consistent behavior now
- pacify fsync() calls on python unit tests
- make --strace flag work better in redbean
- start minimizing and documenting compiler flags
This change introduces a `-W /dev/pts/1` flag to redbean. What it does
is use the mincore() system call to create a dual-screen terminal
display that lets you troubleshoot the virtual address space. This is
useful since page faults are an important thing to consider when using a
forking web server. Now we have a colorful visualization of which pages
are going to fault and which ones are resident in memory.
The memory monitor, if enabled, spawns as a thread that just outputs
ANSI codes to the second terminal in a loop. In order to make this
happen using the new clone() polyfill, stdio is now thread safe.
This change also introduces some new demo pages to redbean. It also
polishes the demos we already have, to look a bit nicer and more
presentable for the upcoming release, with better explanations too.
These will now be included in the cosmopolitan.a releases. It took a bit
of time because, these functions depend on heavyweight parts of the libc
that wouldn't be appropriate for the core zlib library to depend upon.
Fixes#345
You now have some ability to truly make an executable yours, by adding a
`.args` file to the root of the zip structure. If this is specified,
then you'll be overriding the default CLI args.
This will be a great feature for folks who want to distribute their own
apps, using the interpreter executable, but have the executable appears
to be just your app rather than being the interpreter.
- Get threads working on NetBSD
- Get threads working on OpenBSD
- Fix Emacs config for Emacs v28
- Improve --strace logging of sigset_t
- Improve --strace logging of struct stat
- Improve memory safety of DescribeThing functions
- Refactor auto stack allocation into LIBC_RUNTIME
- Introduce shell.com example which works on Windows
- Refactor __strace_thing into DescribeThing functions
- Document the CHECK macros and improve them in NDEBUG mode
- Rewrite MAP_STACK so it uses FreeBSD behavior across platforms
- Deprecate and discourage the use of MAP_GROWSDOWN (it's weird)
- Add rusage to redbean Lua API
- Add more redbean documentation
- Add pledge() to redbean Lua API
- Polyfill OpenBSD pledge() for Linux
- Increase PATH_MAX limit to 1024 characters
- Untrack sibling processes after fork() on Windows
- Add hierarchical auto-completion to redbean's repl
- Fetch latest localtime() and strftime() from Eggert
- Shave a few milliseconds off redbean start latency
- Fix redbean repl with multi-line statements
- Make the Lua unix module code more elegant
- Harden Lua data structure serialization
- Add GetCpuCount() API to redbean
- Add unix.gmtime() API to redbean
- Add unix.readlink() API to redbean
- Add unix.localtime() API to redbean
- Perfect the new redbean UNIX module APIs
- Integrate with Linux clock_gettime() vDSO
- Run Lua garbage collector when malloc() fails
- Fix another regression quirk with linenoise repl
- Fix GetProgramExecutableName() for systemwide installs
- Fix a build flake with test/libc/mem/test.mk SRCS list
- Improve serialization
- Add Benchmark() API to redbean
- Refactor UNIX API to be assert() friendly
- Make the redbean Lua REPL print data structures
- Fix recent regressions in linenoise reverse search
- Add -i flag so redbean can be a language interpreter
- Expand redbean UNIX module
- Expand redbean documentation
- Ensure Lua copyright is embedded in binary
- Increase the PATH_MAX limit especially on NT
- Use column major sorting for linenoise completions
- Fix some suboptimalities in redbean's new UNIX API
- Figured out right flags for Multics newline in raw mode
- Get clone() working on FreeBSD
- Increase some Python build quotas
- Add more atomic builtins to chibicc
- Fix ASAN poisoning of alloca() memory
- Make MODE= mandatory link path tinier
- Improve the examples folder a little bit
- Start working on some more resource limits
- Make the linenoise auto-complete UI as good as GNU readline
- Update compile.com, avoiding AVX codegen on non-AVX systems
- Make sure empty path to syscalls like opendir raises ENOENT
- Correctly polyfill ENOENT vs. ENOTDIR on the New Technology
- Port bestline's paredit features to //third_party/linenoise
- Remove workarounds for RHEL 5.0 bugs that were fixed in 5.1
It's now possible to pass the `-S` or `-SS` flags to sandbox redbean
worker proecsses after they've been forked. The first `-S` flag is
intended to be a permissive builtin policy that limits system calls to
only that which the various parts of redbean serving need. The second
`-SS` flag is intended to be more restrictive, preventing things like
the Lua extensions you download off the web from using the HTTP client
or sockets APIs. In upcoming changes you'll be able to implement your
own Berkeley Packet Filter sandbox programs and load them via Lua.
- Fix a regression with the previous change that broke redbean
- Add chroot(), resource limit, seccomp, and other stuff to redbean
- Write lots and lots of documentation
- Iron out more system call issues
You can now interact with the global web server state on the command
line, which the web server is running. This supports Emacs shortcuts
with history, readline parity, <tab> completions, plus hints. Enjoy!
