Linux provides some features that allow avoiding extra calls to
fcntl when creating new nonblocking/close-on-exec sockets, so
we can add wrapper functions to emulate those when they are not
available.
Additionally, even when we are emulating those functions, we can
take a fast path that cuts our fcntl calls in half: we don't need to
look up the previous value of a file's flags when we have just
created it.
Some hosts require you to define certain options to get a large off_t
instead of a small one, to get useful ftell and fseek calls instead of
ones that can only support 2GB files, and so on. This patch makes
Libevent support those platforms by:
* Defining the right options when we build, and
* Changing our API so that it does not depend on the platform's
definition of off_t.
Based on discusion with Michael Herf
Using --enable-gcc-hardening enables some additional safety features
that gcc makes available such as stack smashing protection using
canaries and ASLR.
This commit is based on a patch for Tor:
(git commit 04fa935e02270bc90aca0f1c652d31c7a872175b by Jacob Appelbaum)
Copyright (c) 2007-2011, The Tor Project, Inc.
This commit is based on a patch for Tor
(git commit ca60a6ce3f4786626ac455ec1b798b2e8304635c by Peter
Palfrader), Copyright (c) 2007-2011, The Tor Project, Inc.
(Originally, it added --enable-gcc-warnings-advisory as in Tor; Nick
changed that.)
Starting with Lion, Apple decided to deprecate the system openssl. We
can start requiring users to install their own openssl once OS X doesn't
ship with it anymore.
When compiling using clang (2.9 or lower) do not enable
-Wnormalized=id or -Woverride-init when --enable-gcc-warnings
or --enable-gcc-warnings-advisory is set as these options
are unsupported.
This commit is based on a patch for Tor
(git commit 56bdc844ba68ac0911efc7ad3398f1eafeaaac76 by Steven
Murdoch), Copyright (c) 2007-2011, The Tor Project, Inc.
This patch fixes http://bugs.ntp.org/1844, works around
http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=40401, by
improving the test for support of --gc-sections to run a program which
reads a file using stdio built with --gc-sections, instead of simply
link the binary. This catches the buggy linker as the garbage
collection removes a tag NetBSD uses to distinguish its own elf
binaries from Linux ones, causing it to treat conftest as a Linux
binary and run it with the wrong syscall table.
I don't see how this can burn anybody, but I don't want to take
chances: new build options are something that should be done in an
alpha. To turn -ffunction-sections on, pass
--enable-function-sections to configure.
