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For the first time ever, all tests in this codebase now pass, when run automatically on macos, freebsd, openbsd, rhel5, rhel7, alpine and windows via the network using the runit and runitd build tools - Fix vfork exec path etc. - Add XNU opendir() support - Add OpenBSD opendir() support - Add Linux history to syscalls.sh - Use copy_file_range on FreeBSD 13+ - Fix system calls with 7+ arguments - Fix Windows with greater than 16 FDs - Fix RUNIT.COM and RUNITD.COM flakiness - Fix OpenBSD munmap() when files are mapped - Fix long double so it's actually long on Windows - Fix OpenBSD truncate() and ftruncate() thunk typo - Let Windows fcntl() be used on socket files descriptors - Fix Windows fstat() which had an accidental printf statement - Fix RHEL5 CLOCK_MONOTONIC by not aliasing to CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW This is wonderful. I never could have dreamed it would be possible to get it working so well on so many platforms with tiny binaries. Fixes #31 Fixes #25 Fixes #14 |
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SYNOPSIS
System Five Import Libraries
OVERVIEW
Bell System Five is the umbrella term we use to describe Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X which all have nearly-identical application binary interfaces that stood the test of time, having definitions nearly the same as those of AT&T back in the 1980's.
Cosmopolitan aims to help you build apps that can endure over the course of decades, just like these systems have: without needing to lift a finger for maintenance churn, broken builds, broken hearts.
The challenge to System V binary compatibility basically boils down to numbers. All these systems agree on what services are provided, but tend to grant them wildly different numbers.
We address this by putting all the numbers in a couple big shell scripts, ask the GNU Assembler to encode them into binaries using an efficient LEB128 encoding, unpacked by _init(), and ref'd via extern const. It gives us good debuggability, and any costs are gained back by fewer branches in wrapper functions.z