Instead, filter it in libc for old networking implementations, as
those do not support sending SIGPIPE to user processes anyway. This
change allows newer socket drivers to implement the flag as per the
specification.
Change-Id: I423bdf28ca60f024a344d0a73e2eab38f1b269da
Commit git-c38dbb9 inadvertently broke local MINIX3-on-MINIX3 builds,
since its libc changes relied on VFS being upgraded already as well.
As a result, after installing the new libc, networking ceased to work,
leading to curl(1) failing later on in the build process. This patch
introduces transitional code that is necessary for the build process
to complete, after which it is obsolete again.
Change-Id: I93bf29c01d228e3d7efc7b01befeff682954f54d
Currently, the BSD socket API is implemented in libc, translating the
API calls to character driver operations underneath. This approach
has several issues:
- it is inefficient, as most character driver operations are specific
to the socket type, thus requiring that each operation start by
bruteforcing the socket protocol family and type of the given file
descriptor using several system calls;
- it requires that libc itself be changed every time system support
for a new protocol is added;
- various parts of the libc implementations violate the asynchronous
signal safety POSIX requirements.
In order to resolve all these issues at once, the plan is to turn the
BSD socket calls into system calls, thus making the BSD socket API the
"native" ABI, removing the complexity from libc and instead letting
VFS deal with the socket calls.
The overall change is going to break all networking functionality. In
order to smoothen the transition, this patch introduces the fifteen
new BSD socket system calls, and makes libc try these first before
falling back on the old behavior. For now, the VFS implementations of
the new calls fail such that libc will always use the fallback cases.
Later on, when we introduce the actual implementation of the native
BSD socket calls, all statically linked programs will automatically
use the new ABI, thus limiting actual application breakage.
In other words: by itself, this patch does nothing, except add a bit
of transitional overhead that will disappear in the future. The
largest part of the patch is concerned with adding full support for
the new BSD socket system calls to trace(1) - this early addition has
the advantage of making system call tracing output of several socket
calls much more readable already.
Both the system call interfaces and the trace(1) support have already
been tested using code that will be committed later on.
Change-Id: I3460812be50c78be662d857f9d3d6840f3ca917f
- replace a stray assert(0) with abort()
- remove unrequired copy-pasted #undef NDEBUG
- replace some #if NDEBUG by #if DEBUG as they protect debug printf()s.
Change-Id: Iff4c0331b06e860d32d91ce6b1d6c765ed065c8b
