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The ZIP filesystem has a breaking change. You now need to use /zip/ to open() / opendir() / etc. assets within the ZIP structure of your APE binary, instead of the previous convention of using zip: or zip! URIs. This is needed because Python likes to use absolute paths, and having ZIP paths encoded like URIs simply broke too many things. Many more system calls have been updated to be able to operate on ZIP files and file descriptors. In particular fcntl() and ioctl() since Python would do things like ask if a ZIP file is a terminal and get confused when the old implementation mistakenly said yes, because the fastest way to guarantee native file descriptors is to dup(2). This change also improves the async signal safety of zipos and ensures it doesn't maintain any open file descriptors beyond that which the user has opened. This change makes a lot of progress towards adding magic numbers that are specific to platforms other than Linux. The philosophy here is that, if you use an operating system like FreeBSD, then you should be able to take advantage of FreeBSD exclusive features, even if we don't polyfill them on other platforms. For example, you can now open() a file with the O_VERIFY flag. If your program runs on other platforms, then Cosmo will automatically set O_VERIFY to zero. This lets you safely use it without the need for #ifdef or ifstatements which detract from readability. One of the blindspots of the ASAN memory hardening we use to offer Rust like assurances has always been that memory passed to the kernel via system calls (e.g. writev) can't be checked automatically since the kernel wasn't built with MODE=asan. This change makes more progress ensuring that each system call will verify the soundness of memory before it's passed to the kernel. The code for doing these checks is fast, particularly for buffers, where it can verify 64 bytes a cycle. - Correct O_LOOP definition on NT - Introduce program_executable_name - Add ASAN guards to more system calls - Improve termios compatibility with BSDs - Fix bug in Windows auxiliary value encoding - Add BSD and XNU specific errnos and open flags - Add check to ensure build doesn't talk to internet |
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SYNOPSIS
Cosmopolitan Standard Library.
OVERVIEW
This directory defines static archives defining functions, like printf(), mmap(), win32, etc. Please note that the Cosmopolitan build configuration doesn't link any C/C++ library dependencies by default, so you still have the flexibility to choose the one provided by your system. If you'd prefer Cosmopolitan, just add $(LIBC) and $(CRT) to your linker arguments.
Your library is compromised of many bite-sized static archives. We use the checkdeps tool to guarantee that the contents of the archives are organized in a logical way that's easy to use with or without our makefile infrastructure, since there's no cyclic dependencies.
The Cosmopolitan Library exports only the most stable canonical system calls for all supported operating systems, regardless of which platform is used for compilation. We polyfill many of the APIs, e.g. read(), write() so they work consistently everywhere while other apis, e.g. CreateWindowEx(), might only work on one platform, in which case they become no-op functions on others.
Cosmopolitan polyfill wrappers will usually use the dollar sign naming convention, so they may be bypassed when necessary. This same convention is used when multiple implementations of string library and other performance-critical function are provided to allow Cosmopolitan to go fast on both old and newer computers.
We take an approach to configuration that relies heavily on the compiler's dead code elimination pass (libc/dce.h). Most of the code is written so that, for example, folks not wanting support for OpenBSD can flip a bit in SUPPORT_VECTOR and that code will be omitted from the build. The same is true for builds that are tuned using -march=native which effectively asks the library to not include runtime support hooks for x86 processors older than what you use.
Please note that, unlike Cygwin or MinGW, Cosmopolitan does not achieve broad support by bolting on a POSIX emulation layer. We do nothing more than (in most cases) stateless API translations that get you 90% of the way there in a fast lightweight manner. We therefore can't address some of the subtle differences, such as the nuances of absolute paths on Windows. Our approach could be compared to something more along the lines of, "the Russians just used a pencil to write in space", versus spending millions researching a pen like NASA.