The original use cases of the loader have long been covered by the
dynamic init. The only substantial client of the loader remained to be
the qpluginwidget. However, the qpluginwidget was supported only by the
Arora web browser. But the blending of plugins with websites ultimately
remained a tech demo, and Arora has been replaced by Falkon.
Fixes#5229
The format library is required, otherwise the binary isn't build. This
regression was introduced in
acpica: provide verbose config (issue #5083)
Fixes genodelabs#5136
This patch changes the unlink operation of the ram fs to defer the
destruction of a file until it is no longer referenced by any VFS handle.
When unlinked, the file no longer appears in the directory. But it can
still be opened and accessed.
With this change, a parent process of a Unix-like subsystem becomes able
to pass the content of an unlinked file to a forked child process. This
mechanism is required when using the 'exec' command in Tcl scripts.
Another use case is the 'tmpfile()' function.
Fixes#3577
Internally libyuv uses malloc & free for short time dynamic memory
allocation during image transformation. The converted images are
such large, that the Libc allocator will create and destroy new Genode
dataspace per image. In time sensitive code paths, the overhead can be
noticeable by the caller of the image transformation.
The patch adds the option to register callbacks in the libyuv library to
implement the image allocation by users of the library. They may implement
caching strategies to avoid the overhead, e.g. as seen with qemu-usb and
the webcam model.
Dynamically loading the `compat-libc` breaks `fork(2)` on Genode.
Switch `compat-libc` to a special api package that provides a source
file for statically linking the library, analogous to the `blit`
package. This also requires a quirk in Goa but should prevent breaking
`fork()` and removes the runtime and archive dependencies for Rust
packages using `compat-libc`.
Ref genodelabs/goa#61
Implement FBSD_1.0 versions of libc functions ('stat', 'fstat'). The
functions are versioned with @FBSD_1.0, and therefore, will not clash
with libc during linking. However, to be called by our dynamic linker,
the library must be before libc in the NEEDED section of the binary
using it. This requires the lib to be in front of libc in the LIBS
variable. The library currently will call libc 'stat' and 'fstat' by
looking up the symbols via 'dlsym'.
Ref genodelabs/goa#61
The main user of libsparkcrypto in the past was the CBE block encryption
ecosystem. However, the CBE was replaced with the Tresor block encryption that
uses libcrypto instead.
Ref #4819
