Rich Felker
0c8bc102f2
these changes still do not yield a fully-conforming abort, but they fix two known issues: - per POSIX, termination via SIGKILL is not "abnormal", but both ISO C and POSIX require abort to yield abnormal termination. - raising SIGKILL fails to do anything to pid 1 in some containers. now, the trapping instruction produced by a_crash() is expected to produce abnormal termination, without the risk of invoking a signal handler since SIGILL and SIGSEGV are blocked, and _Exit, which contains an infinite loop analogous to the one being removed from abort itself, is used as a last resort. this implementation still fails to produce an exit status as if the process terminated via SIGABRT in cases where SIGABRT is blocked or ignored, but fixing that is not easy; the obvious pseudo-solutions all have subtle race conditions where a concurrent fork or exec can expose incorrect signal state.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
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http://www.musl-libc.org/