Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-11-28)

Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-11-28)

[Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2022-11-28 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bluejeans.com/9093064454

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

 * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 253.
 * Carlos' SLI at 136 days.
 * Starting at 61164
 * <time.h>: Make strptime available by default  (fweimer)
  * C99 changes.
 * <signal.h>: Make bsd_signal available with _GNU_SOURCE (fweimer)
  * C99 changes.
 * [v3,1/2] scripts: Add "|" operator support to glibcpp's parsing (shahab)
  * Reviewd by Florian.
 * [v3,2/2] ARC: update definitions in elf/elf.h (shahab)
  * Needs review by Vineet Gupta (machine maintainer)
 * Add restrict annotations to all functions that require it (Seija)
  * Adhemerval to comment that this changes internal functions and should split.
  * CI - Patch fails to apply?
 * Discussed RFC on malloc usable size and systemd usage of remainder of bytes.
 * libio: Deprecate the fcloseall function (bug 28099) (fweimer)
  * fcloseall is problematic from an API perspective.
  * Deprecate this release then find a release to switch to backwards compat.
 * [v2] <stdio.h>: Make fopencookie, vasprintf, asprintf available by default (fweimer)
  * C99 changes.
 * <string.h>: Make strchrnul, strcasestr, memmem available by default
  * C99 changes.
 * [v2] Resolve-flockfile-funlockfile-differences (patrick)
  * Under review by Florian.
 * LoongArch: Use medium cmodel build libc_nonshared.a. (caiyinyu)
  * Changes requested.
 * Series:  LoongArch: Use builtins with GCC >= 13 (xiaolin)
  * LoongArch maintainers need to review.
 * Revert "Correctly determine libc.so 'OUTPUT_FORMAT' when cross-compiling." (Vineet)
  * Carlos to review.
 * [v2] dlsym: Add RTLD_PROBE to dlsym only probe symbol without add dependency. (wang)
  * Discussed that Solaris has RTLD_PROBE, but semantics are different.
  * Need to discuss on list that this may not be needed given the existing requirements.
 * LoongArch: Add syscall.c for getting correct return value (XingLi)
  * Changes requested.
 * malloc: Use correct C11 atomics for fastbin (wilco)
  * Needs performance review? Could DJ have a look at this?
  * Last time we tried to do this it had a performance regression.
  * Needs review.
 * Stopped at 60930
 * Siddhesh looking for feedback on RFC for malloc_usable_size
  * https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-November/143599.html
 * Adhemerval: Status of "Remove Linux generic sysdep" review?
  * Carlos: Tested it before I went on vacation. Looks good. Want to retest.
 * Adhemerval: v2 of "Optimize posix_spawn signal setup with clone3"
  * Carlos: Early commit for this would be nice so machine maintainers.
 * Adhemerval: Status of "Fixing remaining lld issues"
  * 3 patches with fweimer for review.

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Cheers,
Carlos.