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15-Jan-2014 |
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> |
fix system breakage window during make install due to permissions install.sh was wrongly waiting until after atomically replacing the old file to set the correct permissions on the new file. in the case of the dynamic linker, this would cause a dynamic-linked chmod command not to run (due to missing executable permissions on the dynamic linker) and thus leave the system in an unusable state. even if chmod is static-linked, the old behavior had a race window where dynamic-linked programs could fail to run.
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17-Aug-2013 |
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> |
replace system's install command with a shell script the historical (non-standardized) install command is really inappropriate for installing binaries/libraries on a system that utilizes memory-mapped executable files. rather than replacing an existing file atomically, it overwrites the existing file. this can cause running programs to see a partially-modified version of the file, resulting in unpredictable behavior, or SIGBUS. a MAP_COPY mode for mmap would get around this problem, but Linux lacks MAP_COPY. the shell script added with this commit works around the problem by writing temporary files and moving them into place. unlike the historical install utility, it also support a -l option for installing a symbolic link atomically, via the same method.
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