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VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0300 Alpha V7.2-1H1 Compaq C RTL ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 2002. All rights reserved.
New Kit Date: 14-JUN-2002
Modification Date: Not Applicable
Modification Type: NEW KIT
OP/SYS: OpenVMS Alpha
COMPONENT: DECC$SHR (Compaq C RTL)
SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0300
DEC-AXPVMS-VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0300--4.PCSI
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: None
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 14560 Blocks
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1H1
System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: Yes
Rolling Re-boot Supported: Yes
Installation Rating: INSTALL_3
3 - To be installed on all systems running
the listed versions of OpenVMS which
are experiencing the problems described.
Kit Dependencies:
The following remedial kit(s), or later, must be installed BEFORE
installation of this, or any required kit:
VMS721H1_UPDATE-V0500
In order to receive all the corrections listed in this
kit, the following remedial kits should also be installed:
None
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for Compaq C on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1H1. This kit
addresses the following problems:
PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN KIT VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0300:
o In previous releases of C RTL, all file positions were
calculated using 32-bit arithmetic. This restricted certain
file operations to file sizes less than 2GB.
This restriction has now been removed. File operations using
C RTL I/O may now be performed on file sizes up to 2
terabytes.
By default, applications may only use offsets expressed in 32
bits. The function fgetpos() now returns the correct file
offset when the file position is beyond 2GB.
Developers can also program their application to express file
sizes and positions in 64-bits.
The new 64-bit interfaces can be selected at compile time by
defining the _LARGEFILE feature macro:
$ CC /DEFINE=_LARGEFILE
When specified, a 64-bit integer is used to express the
integral type off_t.
Support has been added for compiling applications to use file
sizes and offsets that are 2 gigabytes or larger. This is
accomplished by allowing file offsets of 64-bit integers. Two
new functions have been added:
- fseeko
- ftello
These are identical to fseek and ftell , but they accept or
return values of type off_t , which allows for a 64-bit
variant of off_t to be used.
Modifications to accommodate a 64-bit file offset have been
made to the following existing C RTL functions:
- fstat
- ftruncate
- ftw
- lseek
- mmap
- stat
- truncate
Note that ECO kits released in August 2000 and later for both
VAX and Alpha had a problem with stream file larger than 2GB.
Attempts to position at the beginning of file using rewind(),
lseek() or fseek() may fail and leave the file position at
end-of-file. In V7.2-1H1, this can cause an ACCVIO. This is
also fixed.
o Support for the Chinese GB18030 character set was added to the
C Run-Time for the VMSI18N Internationalization kit which also
supports GB18030.
This is one of two kits required for GB18030 support, the
other is ALPVMSI18N01_073 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1H1.
This C Run-Time kit must be installed before the VMSI18N kit.
o Several problems in function mmap() and munmap() were
addressed.
- Calling function mmap() could result in memory corruption,
when specifying specific addresses in parameter addr.
Under complex conditions the CRTL sometimes allocated
internal memory needed by the CRTL for mmap() related
routines in the address space mapped, which could result
in memory corruption.
This change is Alpha only.
- Function mmap(), with parameter addr set to 0, now returns
the first available chunk of memory from the freelist (if
any). It previously returned a "best fit" chunk from the
freelist.
This change is Alpha only.
- Function munmap() would sometimes fail when releasing
memory allocated with MAP_ANON. This is because it
wrongly tried to deassign a file channel that was not
associated with the memory range.
- Function mmap() was incorrectly specifying global memory
when MAP_ANON is specified.
Change will only do this with flag MAP_SHARED specified.
o The function strftime() V conversion specifier, did not return
the correct number of weeks in the year for some boundary
dates at the end of December or the beginning of January.
o Function strftime() reported either week 52 or 53 for last
week of December. It should report "1" for December dates
which are in the same week as January 1st of the next
year, when the week that contains Jan 1 has four or more
days in the next year.
o Function strftime() always reported week 53 when early
January dates were not in week 1, even if the last week in
December was actually week 52. They should be reported as
week 52.
o Threaded C applications can hang, when doing operations which
result in file I/O.
The frequency of the hang varies with the timing of statements
in the user's program. Changing the program can eliminate the
hang, especially adding extra I/O function calls.
o Function ecvt() (convert to string) had performance problems
due to its use of thread-specific data. The function called
LIB$AST_IN_PROG() protects the thread-specific data against
corruption by an interrupting AST. LIB$AST_IN_PROG()
introduces a high overhead resulting in poor performance.
Function ecvt() was not intended to be AST-safe. The handling
of thread-specific data was revised in C RTL for OpenVMS
V7.1-1. This introduced the test for LIB$AST_IN_PROG() and
the resulting overhead.
The default is now thread-safe but not AST-safe. This greatly
improves performance.
The AST-safe mode can be restored by enabling the feature
DECC$THREAD_DATA_AST_SAFE:
$ DEFINE DECC$THREAD_DATA_AST_SAFE ENABLE
o A C application can become noticeably slower after adding
calls to C Run-Time function times() to get performance data.
The times() function used an asynchronous system call $GETJPI
which includes significant overhead.
Function times() has been changed to take advantage of changes
in OpenVMS which now make the call synchronous which
significantly reduces overhead.
o Function alarm() did not correctly recognize an unexpired
timer and did not always return the correct time remaining.
Function alarm() supports a single timer. When another
request to alarm() is issued, any pending request should be
canceled, a new alarm scheduled and the time remaining on the
original timer returned.
Function alarm() was changed to:
o Use static variable for storing scheduled alarm.
o If the unexpired time is less than zero then report zero.
o If the unexpired time is greater than zero then return a
minimum of 1.
o When called from a higher access mode, function fopen() can
fail with a Bad Address error.
o Child processes did not inherit file open context "ctx=eol"
when specified in the parent process.
The child process inherits the file open contexts of the
parent. It does this by interpreting the context and
generating an open request with the reconstituted optional
arguments. The algorithm for building the open request was
not updated accordingly, and so this option was ignored.
This has been fixed.
o C programs cannot create files with special characters such as
'#' in UNIX mode.
The CRTL requires a new feature logical DECC$EFS_CHARSET to be
defined with the value ENABLE to use EFS extended characters.
Many existing applications make assumptions about file names
based on the presence of certain characters. This is
necessary because non-standard and undocumented C RTL
extensions do not work when EFS extended character set support
is enabled.
The existing feature logical DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_ONLY specifies
filename interpretation. Two new feature logical have been
created to enable some of these features independent of
whether OpenVMS names are accepted.
* DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_ONLY - Always interpret names as UNIX
style.
Never interpret a name as a OpenVMS format name. This is
the primary behavior when DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_ONLY is set
to ENABLE.
* DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_NO_VERSION - Ignore OpenVMS generation
numbers and never treat the last element of a UNIX name as
a generation number.
This behavior can now be selected independently by
enabling feature logical DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_NO_VERSION.
* When not otherwise specified, always report file names in
UNIX style.
This behavior can now be selected independently by
enabling feature logical DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT.
The implementation supports conversion from OpenVMS to UNIX
needed for readdir(), ftw(), getname(), fgetname(), and
getcwd(), etc.
o Function fstat() is not reporting permissions for files of
type S_IFCHR and reports that owner is owner of current
process.
Function fstat() leaves the XABITM block for
XAB$_UCHAR_DIRECTORY linked to the FAB if $DISPLAY fails.
This also affects stat().
o Function setvbuf() restricted maximum buffer size for stream
files to 32767 instead of 65535.
When setvbuf() is used on a file not opened by RMS, such as a
socket, the application may ACCVIO.
o Applications testing the return status of pclose() in OpenVMS
mode cannot detect warnings.
To check the OpenVMS status, compile with the _VMS_WAIT macro
defined. This will enable OpenVMS Warning, Failure and
Success conditions.
$ cc/define=_VMS_WAIT <other command line options>
This is similar to function waitpid(), where _VMS_WAIT is
documented.
o C programs calling sockets were slow because of how the CRTL
was resolving entries for socket functions in TCP/IP shared
libraries.
o Extraneous thousands separator displayed for negative values
when using locale support with printf().
For example, "-,999,999.00" instead of "-999,999.00".
o Functions remove() and unlink() cannot delete files that are
open. This is expected to work, and has been fixed.
o The C RTL was unconditionally converting the values for PATH
and HOME to lowercase.
C RTL preserves case in command line arguments when
DECC$ARGV_PARSE_STYLE is enabled and "SET
PROC/PARSE_STYLE=EXTENDED" is in effect.
It is appropriate that when command line arguments have case
preserved that the environment variables HOME and PATH be
treated likewise.
o Function stat(), access() fails with file opened for
non-shared write
This was fixed.
o Function access() is not testing whether the device is
software write-locked when a user requests write access.
If device is write-locked, errno is set to EROFS and failure
is now returned.
o - tempnam() is required by the standard to offer at least
10,000 unique names. CRTL currently allows 156.
- access() is called to determine if a file to be created
exists. For tempnam() the name is always in
OpenVMS-style. When OpenVMS style names are disabled,
access() will always fail indicating that there is no
matching file.
- tmpnam() reports the new name in a static buffer, instead
of a thread-specific buffer.
- When tempnam() is called repeatedly, no attempt is made to
remember the last generated name. If a file is created
for each call, the program will get slower as it tests for
the existence for each created file.
o If the top level directory on a device contains file names
which collate before 000000.DIR, ftw() and readdir do not
detect that 000000.DIR is a special directory and will
recursively search it.
000000.DIR is now recognized as the top level directory and
treated appropriately.
o Trying to rename() file xx.yy to zz gets filename zz.yy.
Trying to rename() file xx.yy to .zz gets filename xx.zz.
This problem has been fixed, but requires a C RTL feature
logical set. The user will get zz or .zz, as they specified.
For compatibility with existing programs the new behavior must
be enabled using a feature logical name:
$ DEFINE DECC$RENAME_NO_INHERIT ENABLE
If DECC$RENAME_NO_INHERIT is ENABLED, the rename function
tries to emulate UNIX.
- There is some validation of old and new names to determine
if they are directories and ensure that a directory name
will be valid after the rename.
- The effective new name does not inherit any elements from
the old name.
- rename is performed using RMS function SYS$RENAME.
This mode is designed for UNIX style names. Validation is
less complete for OpenVMS style names.
If feature DECC$RENAME_NO_INHERIT is DISABLED, the rename
function follows OpenVMS renaming policy. Apart from
converting UNIX names to OpenVMS format, in this mode the
underlying LIBRTL function LIB$RENAME_FILE performs most of
the validation.
o A call to function "access(path, W_OK)" will fail if the
file/directory does not have delete access enabled.
Write access to a directory is commonly tested to see if a
file can be created in the directory. Directories on OpenVMS
are not typically created with delete access. Change access()
to allow access with write access.
o Function getenv() call could corrupt the stack and cause an
ACCVIO in a multi-threading application. This has been fixed.
o Function getch() will ACCVIO for termination sequences longer
than 8 bytes. This has been fixed.
o Some users with badly fragmented disks can see a problem when
rebooting their OpenVMS system after a CRTL kit installation.
This is not a new issue, nor is it a fault with this or
previous CRTL kits. The OpenVMS primitive File system
requires that the C Run-Time DECC$SHR.EXE image not have too
many file fragments or headers This situation is generally
helped (but not fixed) if the DECC$SHR.EXE is contiguous.
This kit sets the "contiguous" file attribute.
We recommend that users check the DECC$SHR.EXE after
installation to insure that their system should be rebootable,
and if not, take steps to return the old DECC$SHR.EXE
(typically renamed to DECC$SHR.EXE_OLD) or defragment the
system disk.
To check for file fragmentation:
$ dump/head/block=count=0/out=crtl.txt sys$library:decc$shr.exe
$ search/log/nooutput crtl.txt count,lbn/match=and
%SEARCH-S-MATCHED, device:[directory]CRTL.TXT;1 - 54 records, 1 match
The primitive file system requires 63 matches or less from
DECC$SHR to work properly.
PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN KIT VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0200
o After installation of previous CRTL ECO kits, user sees:
%LINK-I-DATMISMCH, creation date of <date> <time> in shareable
image SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DECC$SHR.EXE;1
differs from date of <date> <time> in shareable image library
SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]IMAGELIB.OLB
Previous ECO kits did not correctly replace DECC$SHR.EXE in
the system IMAGELIB.OLB, which resulted in this message.
This change is Alpha only.
DECC 3262
o The linker reported multiple definitions when linking programs
referencing the following symbols.
This was because C$ERRNO was not inserted in STARLET.OLB for
Selective search.
o C$_SIG0
o C$_SIGN
o C$_SIGPIPE
o C$_SIGCHLD
o C$_HOST_NOT_FOUND
o C$_TRY_AGAIN
o C$_NO_RECOVERY
o C$_NO_DATA
o C$_NO_ADDRESS
o C$_NO_TCP
o C$_NOSYSSHR
o C$_EXIT1
o C$_EXIT255
o C$_ILLSYSTDF
o C$_QSORT2BIG
This was a problem with previous CRTL ECO kits.
This change is Alpha only.
o Function mktime()'s algorithm locked thread specific data,
which didn't need to be done. This change uses stack
allocated data, and improves performance.
CRTL_INTERNAL 2684
o Function open() had unnecessary calls to SYS$GETJPI. These
were removed.
o Several problems in function mmap() and munmap() were
addressed.
- Calling function mmap() could result in memory corruption,
when specifying specific addresses in parameter addr.
Under complex conditions the CRTL sometimes allocated
internal memory needed by the CRTL for mmap() related
routines in the address space mapped, which could result
in memory corruption.
This change is Alpha only.
- Function mmap(), with parameter addr set to 0, now returns
the first available chunk of memory from the freelist (if
any). It previously returned a "best fit" chunk from the
freelist.
This change is Alpha only.
- Function munmap() would sometimes fail when releasing
memory allocated with MAP_ANON. This is because it
wrongly tried to deassign a file channel that was not
associated with the memory range.
- Function mmap() was incorrectly specifying global memory
when MAP_ANON is specified.
Change will only do this with flag MAP_SHARED specified.
CRTL_INTERNAL 2760
CRTL_INTERNAL 2747
o Function gettimeofday() now sets errno and vaxc$errno
appropriately if UTC time functions fail because of a system
service failure.
CRTL_INTERNAL 2730
o In UNIX mode, getcwd() returns uppercase for the device.
This problem was introduced in CRTL kits VMS721_ACRTL-V0200
and VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0100.
Case preservation in files names was introduced in
VMS721_ACRTL-V0200. This only applies to files saved or
reported from ODS-5 devices. The case of the logical name or
device name was preserved using this same rule.
PTR 117-1-15638
Problems Addressed in VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0100:
o The Compaq C RTL functions which make calls to RMS have been
modified to better support ODS-5 disks. This is an extensive
set of changes throughout the RTL to support case preservation,
long file names, and non-standard file name characters. The
default behavior of the RTL has not changed.
The Compaq C RTL supports case preservation in file names on
ODS level 5 disks. This applies when creating or reporting
file names. By default, this feature is disabled. To enable
this feature define the logical name DECC$EFS_CASE_PRESERVE to
"ENABLE". If file names are all in upper case, define
DECC$EFS_CASE_SPECIAL to "ENABLE" to convert the names into
lower case when reporting the name in UNIX style. If file
names are not all in upper case, then the case is preserved.
Most C RTL functions now accept long OpenVMS-style file names
as arguments. For OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2, some basic
Compaq C RTL I/O functions (creat, stat, and the functions
from the open family of functions) were enhanced to accept
long OpenVMS-style file names for an ODS-5 device.
In this ECO kit, all other Compaq C RTL functions, except
chdir and the functions from the exec family of functions,
were also enhanced to accept long OpenVMS-style file names for
an ODS-5 device.
All C RTL functions that accept or report full file specifications
will process file specifications up to 4095 bytes long, subject to
the rules defined for the media format. For file specifications in
OpenVMS format, there are no special restrictions. In situations
where a full file specification cannot be reported because the
buffer is too short, the function attempts to report the abbreviated
name.
There are restrictions with UNIX file names. Names containing
special characters, such as multiple periods, caret, or
multinational characters, may be rejected. A function call
may report failure if the output buffer is not large enough to
receive the full name. For OpenVMS-style names, the reported
name would contain a FID-abbreviated name. There is no
representation of FID-abbreviated names defined for UNIX.
o The Compaq C RTL was enhanced to allow interpreting the
leading part of a UNIX-style file specification as either a
subdirectory name or a device name.
The translation of the UNIX-style file name "foo/bar" to the
OpenVMS-style file name "foo:bar" was the only translation in
previous versions OpenVMS. It remains the default.
To request translation of the UNIX-style name "foo/bar" to the
OpenVMS-style name "[.foo]bar", DEFINE the following logical
name to any value:
$ DEFINE DECC$DISABLE_TO_VMS_LOGNAME_TRANSLATION ENABLE
To return to the default file-name translation, DEASSIGN the
logical name. The logical name is checked only once per image
activation, not on a file-by-file basis.
o The file creation functions (fopen, open, creat) have been
corrected to not inherit file attributes if a directory by the
same name exists for the file being created. For example,
creating a file named "foo." in a directory which contained a
"foo.dir" would incorrectly inherit file attributes from this
directory file.
o The stat function no longer puts the wrong values into
st_?time members of the stat structure. More precisely,
during daylight savings time the values of st_?time are no
longer one hour ahead from file creation/modification time
reported by the $DIRECTORY command.
o Nonquoted command-line arguments passed to C and C++ programs
(argv arguments) can now optionally have their case preserved,
rather than being lowercased as in previous versions. By
default, this feature is disabled.
To enable this case preservation feature, define the logical
name DECC$ARGV_PARSE_STYLE to "ENABLE" and set the
process-level DCL parse style flag to "EXTENDED" in the
process running the program. Enabling this feature also
ensures that the image name returned in argv[0] is also
case-preserved.
o The time functions time, ftime, gettimeofday and getclock
would fail for a TDF (time differential factor) of -13 hours,
the value required in New Zealand. According to the U.S.
Naval Observatory information the valid range for the TDF is
-13.75 to +13, inclusive. The C RTL now allows this full
range.
o The _malloc64 function was corrected to allow initialization
of this function in a threadsafe manner. Prior to this
change, if the first call occurs after the program has created
multiple threads and more than one thread calls the _malloc64
routine, an access violation may occur.
o In the previous ECO kit, a change was introduced to the
function strptime() for XPG5-compatibility to handle
expressions for the 2-digit year format %y when the century
was not specified. The requirement is for 2-digit years in
the range 0-68 to be treated as 21st century and years in the
range 69-99 as 20th century. The 2-digit years in the range
69-99 were incorrectly being treated as 21st century.
o The execlp and execvp functions were unconditionally prefixing
the file specification of the image to be run in the child
process with "VAXC$PATH:" string. When passed a fully
qualified file specification, this would result in an invalid
file specification.
o The behavior of lseek() and fseek() at positions beyond the
end of data in a file were not conforming to the POSIX/ANSI
standard. The file was being physically null padded on disk
even though the standard only requires this null padding if
data is actually written at this point. In the case reported
by the user, seeking to the end of a file by using a large
offset would take a long time and may exhaust available disk
space. To get the POSIX behavior, you must define
DECC$POSIX_SEEK_STREAM_FILE as "ENABLE". The default behavior
is unchanged.
o The Compaq C RTL was enhanced to open all files for shared
access as if the "shr=del,get,put,upd" option was specified in
the open* or creat call. To enable this feature, define the
logical name DECC$FILE_SHARING to the value "ENABLE". The
value is case-insensitive and is checked only once per image
activation, not on a file-by-file basis.
o The Compaq C RTL was failing when the amount of data written
to a pipe exceeded the buffer size of that pipe. The RTL now
breaks the large write into a sequence of writes whose size is
the size of the underlying mailbox used to implement pipes.
o The opendir function now accepts ".." to be equivalent to both
"../" and "[-]".
o A problem was reported that the RTL could hang if exit were
called while threads were continuing to do I/O. Analysis
showed that the hang was caused by a thread holding the lock
necessary to close the file and the exit handler blocking on
this lock. The change implemented was to not attempt to close
files whose locks were currently in use.
o When a stream file is extended using ftruncate() it is
documented that the extended area will be filled with zeroes.
This is now done correctly. Prior to this change, the file
was not extended.
o The documentation of the select function states that it
returns either when a socket is ready to be read or written,
when the timeout period expires, or when exceptions occur.
It was not properly terminating when an exception occurred.
This problem was corrected by dynamically linking to and calling
an abort function in the socket library. A complete correction
to interrupting the select function will also require an ECO
kit from the Compaq TCP/IP product which includes this new
abort function.
o The fstat function was corrected to not access violate when
called with stdin, stdout, stderr, or a directory specification.
o The chdir function was not well-behaved when the calling
program passed an argument which was a search list logical.
The chdir function was unconditionally changing the logical
sys$disk to the first member of the search list was
effectively dropping the remaining members. The change in
behavior is seen as a step in the right direction, but there
are plans for more work in this area.
o The stat functions were not correctly handling files which
were not directories but did use a .dir extension. This
problem was discovered when porting a UNIX application which
used a .dir extension to store application specific information.
o The RTL functions which process file specifications were not
correctly processing files which contained a hyphen character.
The RTL was incorrectly assuming that hyphens were only
allowed to specify a relative directory path.
Problems Addressed in VMS721_ACRT-V0100:
o The getenv() function has been corrected to check for a CLI
symbol only when called in user access mode. While DEC C RTL
is a user-mode run time library, we decided to correct
getenv() in order to make the library more robust. This is
because calling CLI from within exec or kernel mode may result
in an access violation.
With this fix, when called from inner access mode, the
getenv() function will search only the C environment list and
VMS logical names.
This fix does not mean, however, that the user-mode only
restriction was lifted. It is still unsupported to call the
DEC C RTL functions, including getenv(), in any access mode
other than in user-mode.
o The strptime() function has been modified to comply with
X/Open CAE Specification System Interfaces and Headers Issue 5
(commonly known as XPG5). In XPG5, it was changed how the
strptime() function processes the "%y" directive for a
two-digit year within the century if no century is specified.
According to XPG5, for the "%y" directive when a century is
not otherwise specified, values in the range 69-99 refer to
years in the twentieth century (1969 to 1999 inclusive) while
values in the range 00-68 refer to years in the twenty-first
century (2000 to 2068 inclusive). Essentially, for the "%y"
directive, strptime() became a "pivoting" function with 69
being a pivoting year.
Before this change, the strptime() function was always
interpreting two-digit year with no century as a year within
the twentieth century.
With the current ECO kit, XPG5-compliant strptime() becomes a
default strptime() function in the DEC C RTL. However, for
compatibility reasons, the previous "non-pivoting" XPG4-compliant
strptime() function was retained.
The "pivoting" is controlled by the DECC$XPG4_STRPTIME logical
name. Defining this logical name prior to invoking the
application (any equivalence string) will cause the DEC C RTL
to use the "non-pivoting" flavor of strptime(). Also
"non-pivoting" strptime() can be called directly as
decc$strptime_xpg4() function.
While there is an easy way to disable "pivoting" by just
defining a logical name, you should be aware that if the
application ceases to work correctly due to the change in the
strptime() function, it almost certainly means, that there is
a Y2K problem in the application. Y2K-safe applications
should not be affected by the change in strptime().
o The stat() function has been corrected to process file
specifications such as "foo:[000000]" where foo is defined as
a concealed device like the following:
$ define/trans=(conc) foo device:[bar.]
Prior to this fix, the stat() function would fail for such a
file specification with errno set to ENOENT (No such file or
directory).
o Both flavors of system() function were corrected to ensure
that the function always returns the correct status.
The POSIX-compliant system() function has been corrected to
always return status corresponding to the signal which
terminated the child process if the child process was
terminated due to receiving a signal.
Prior to this fix, there was a small timing window when the
function could return the status corresponding to the child
process completion code even in the case when the child
process was terminated by a signal.
The Non-POSIX system() function has been corrected to always
return the VMS completion code of the child process.
Prior to this fix, there was a small timing window when the
function could return the status from LIB$SPAWN() instead of
the completion code of the child process.
None of these problems were ever reported by a customer.
o Opendir() and readdir() functions have been corrected to
process directories on a remote node specified using the
following DECnet file specification:
nodename"username password"::device:[directory]
Prior to this fix, opendir() could fail with errno set to
ENOTDIR (Not a directory). In the case when opendir() could
successfully open the directory, readdir() function could
return incorrect file names.
o Times() and clock() functions have been modified to be both
thread-safe and AST-reentrant.
Prior to this change, these functions belonged to the class of
functions which are thread safe, but not AST-reentrant (see
section 1.7.2 Multithread Restrictions in the DEC C RTL
Reference Manual).
The change in the reentrancy status of the times() and clock()
functions will be reflected in the next release of the Manual.
o The stat() function no longer fails due to the failure of the
mktime() function.
It was reported that the stat() function fails for a file
created on April 4th 1999 at 2:04 a.m. EST which is the
"missing hour" in the transition from standard to daylight
saving time in Eastern time zone.
The failure was due to the failure of the mktime() function to
process the "missing hour" (stat() calls mktime() to fill
st_?time members of the stat structure with UTC time).
While the mktime() function was not fixed, the stat() function
was corrected to handle the failure of mktime() and set
st_?time fields correctly even if mktime() fails.
Note, that, strictly speaking, "missing hour" is an invalid
input for mktime(): there is no such time as "April 4th 1999
2:04 a.m.", for example, in Eastern time zone. Given the
possibility of calling mktime() with invalid time, the stat()
function, probably, should not have used mktime() in the first
place or at least should have been prepared for mktime()
failure.
o The CRTL I/O subsystem was enhanced to lift eight nested
directory levels restriction for an ODS-5 device. It affects
such DEC C RTL functions as access, mkdir, opendir, rmdir, and
stat.
The following program example shows different VMS and
Unix-style deep directory specifications.
#include <dirent.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define DIM(_s) (sizeof(_s) / sizeof(_s[0]))
/*
** we assume presence of root$ concieled device:
**
** define/NoLog/Tran=(Conceal,Terminal) root$ node$dka0:[000000.]
**
*/
static char *filename[] = {
"node$dka0:[w.x.y.z.a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j]", /* (1) */
"node$dka0:[w.x.y.z.a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i]j.dir", /* (2) */
"root$/w/x/y/z/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j", /* (3) */
};
main()
{
struct stat s;
int i;
char *name;
for(i=0; i < DIM(filename); ++i) {
name = filename[i];
if ( mkdir(name,0) == -1 )
printf("%d? mkdir(): %s\n", i+1, strerror(errno));
if ( stat(name,&s) )
printf("%d? stat(): %s\n", i+1, strerror(errno));
else if ( !S_ISDIR(s.st_mode) )
printf("%d? stat(): %s\n", i+1, "not a directory???");
if ( !opendir(name) )
printf("%d? opendir(): %s\n", i+1, strerror(errno));
if ( access(name,F_OK) == -1 )
printf("%d? access(): %s\n", i+1, strerror(errno));
if ( rmdir(name) == -1 )
printf("%d? rmdir(): %s\n", i+1, strerror(errno));
}
}
Please note, that the DEC C RTL still does not support mixed
UNIX/VMS-style file names coded using extended ODS-5 syntax
like "doc/foo.bar.bar", "~foo^.bar" and "./tmp/foo.bar.b^_ar".
o The select() function has been corrected to return failure
status if either invalid file descriptor or file descriptor
not associated with a socket is found in one of the specified
file descriptor sets. In case of invalid file descriptor, the
select() function sets errno to EBADF. In case of a file
descriptor not associated with a socket, the function sets
errno to ENOTSOCK.
Failure with errno set to EBADF is the standard requirement
for the select() function. Failure with errno set to ENOTSOCK
is because currently the select() function can operate only on
sockets.
Prior to this fix, the function was setting errno as described
above, but otherwise was ignoring invalid file descriptors and
file descriptors not associated with sockets.
The old behavior can be requested by defining the logical name
DECC$SELECT_IGNORES_INVALID_FD prior to invoking the
application (any equivalence string).
o The bug in printf() "engine" introduced in ALPACRT07_071 kit
has been fixed. The bug was that when minimal field width or
precision specified in the format directive was greater than
1024, the "engine" could write beyond the end of allocated
internal conversion buffer. It could happen only in X_FLOAT
floating point mode (/L_DOUBLE_SIZE=128, which is the default
on Alpha). The bug affected all functions from the printf()
family of functions.
o The problem commonly known as the "Y2038 bug" has been ofixed.
The C run-time library time functions which access the current
time using the VMS time functions have been corrected to
handle times after 19-Jan-2038 3:14:07. Data type time_t is
defined on VMS as an unsigned 32-bit integer. However, some
of the functions which retrieve current time from the system
and convert it to time_t format were using signed arithmetic.
This fix affects the functions:
o decc$fix_time()
o time()
o ftime()
o gettimeofday()
o getclock()
With this fix, DEC C RTL time functions will handle times
successfully until 07-Feb-2106 06:28:15.
o The printf() family of functions have been enhanced to perform
better when the calling application has exhausted available
memory.
o The file access functions have been corrected to process file
names on UNIX systems over DECnet. The file name for a file
on a UNIX system accessed over DECnet was being converted to
uppercase, even when the name was enclosed in double quotes.
This problem was introduced on OpenVMS V7.2 and also affects
OpenVMS V7.1-2 and OpenVMS V7.2-1. File names of the form
node::"dir/name" are now processed correctly.
RELATED ARTICLES:
Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
the OPENVMS and C databases. To view these articles, open the appropriate
product database and perform a query using either of the following
search strings: 'VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0300' or 'VMS721H1_ACRTL'.
ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool. If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:
[AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools
INSTALLATION NOTES:
Because the images in this kit will not take effect until the
system is rebooted, you must reboot the system after installing
this kit.
If you have other nodes in your OpenVMS cluster, they must also be
rebooted in order to make use of the new image(s). If it is not
possible or convenient to reboot the entire cluster at this time, a
rolling re-boot may be performed.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Install this kit with the POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility
by logging into the SYSTEM account, and typing the following at the
DCL prompt:
$ PRODUCT INSTALL VMS721H1_ACRTL /SOURCE=<kit location>
The kit location may be a tape drive, CD, or a disk directory that
contains the kit. If /SOURCE is not specified, the utility
searches in the location defined by the logical name PCSI$SOURCE.
If PCSI$SOURCE is not defined, and the /SOURCE qualifier is not
specified, the POLYCENTER Software Installation utility searches
the current default directory.
SPECIAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
o %INSTALL-E-NODELSHRADR Error Message
During installation you may see the following message:
%INSTALL-E-NODELSHRADR, unable to delete image with shareable
address data
-INSTALL-I-PLSREBOOT, please reboot to install a new version of
this image
This is not a cause for concern. It simply means that
DECC$SHR.EXE was installed as a resident image, which is the
standard configuration for OpenVMS Alpha systems. The new
image will not take effect until the system is rebooted.
o Scripting of Answers to Installation Questions
During installation, this kit will ask and require user
response to several questions. If you wish to automate the
installation of this kit and avoid having to provide responses
to these questions, you must create a DCL command procedure
that includes the following definitions and commands:
- $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP TRUE
- $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT TRUE
- Add the following qualifiers to the PRODUCT INSTALL
command and add that command to the DCL procedure.
/PROD=DEC/BASE=AXPVMS/VER=V3.0
- De-assign the logicals assigned
For example, a sample command file to install the
VMS721H1_ACRTL-V0300 kit would be:
$
$ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP TRUE
$ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT TRUE
$!
$ PROD INSTALL VMS721H1_ACRTL/PROD=DEC/BASE=AXPVMS/VER=V3.0
$!
$ DEASSIGN/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP
$ DEASSIGN/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT
$!
$ exit
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==========================================================================
| Table of Kit Image Information |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| | Overall | Image File | Image Link |
| Image Name | Checksum | Identification | Date/Time |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DECC$SHR.EXE | C20EC5AC | V7.2-1H1-03 | 30-APR-2002 |
| | | 15:37:02.95 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
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