FEDORA-EPEL-2022-10049c7b14

Packages in this update:

libbsd-0.11.7-1.el7

Update description:

libbsd 0.11.7

Portability fixes for the Hurd
Fix ELF support for big endian SH
Sync the arc4random(3) implementation from OpenBSD
Adjust declaration shadowing to match new glibc additions
Manual pages and documentation cleanups
Manual page rewrite to get rid of a BSD-4-Clause license

libbsd 0.11.6

Build system and test suite fixes for musl
Removal of unused OpenBSD support for arc4random()
LoongArch support for nlist()

libbsd 0.11.5

Build system and test suite regression fixes
Documentation on how to build the project

libbsd 0.11.4

Further rework of the libmd wrapping code, to simplify it again, and make it work even when we do not need SHA-2 functions
Fix builds with LTO
Various build system fixes
Various portability fixes
Various documentation fixes

libbsd 0.11.3

Rework of the libmd wrapping code to not require users to explicitly link against libmd
Various build system fixes
Various portability fixes

libbsd 0.11.2

Update <sys/queue.h> from FreeBSD
Import some closefrom() changes from sudo
Make closefrom() use close_range() syscall on Linux when available
Update libbsd(7) man page with updates in 0.11.0

libbsd 0.11.0/0.11.1

Export strnvisx() function
New recallocarray() and freezero() from OpenBSD
New pwcache module from OpenBSD
New timespec(3bsd) man page alias to timeval(3bsd)
New progname implementation for Windows
New LIBBSD_VIS_OPENBSD selection macro
Switch from embedded hashing function implementations to use libmd
Various man pages cleanups
Various portability fixes
Various memory leak fixes

libbsd 0.10.0

Several security related fixes for nlist()
Preliminary and partial Windows porting
Fix for a leak in the vis family of functions
Fix for a configure check to not unnecessarily link against librt
General portability fixes for musl, uClibc, macOS and GNU/kFreeBSD
New architectures support for nlist()
Switch the <err.h> *c() functions to be standalone and add err(), warn(), errx() and warnx() familiy of functions in case the system lacks them
Several man page fixes

libbsd 0.9.0/0.9.1

Add __arraycount() macro
Add flopenat() function
Add strtoi() and strtou() functions
Add several new vis and unvis functions
Add pidfile_fileno() function, and struct pidfh is now opaque
The humanize_number() now understands HN_IEC_PREFIXES
The fmtcheck() function supports all standard printf(3) conversions
The getentropy(), and thus arc4random() functions will not block anymore on Linux on boot when there’s not enough entropy available
The arc4random() function handles direct clone() calls better

libbsd 0.8.7

Fixes the nlist() unit test on IA64, handles glibc now providing some of the functions, restores support for old gcc, and documents the availability of arcrandom(3) on other BSDs

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