Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 11:05:10 -0500 From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> Subject: Re: libc/libsys split coming soon Message-ID: <082DBB76-B8B0-4583-BDE4-B6DCD1DAD133@vigrid.com> In-Reply-To: <458c2a3b-1139-4449-a4a9-f23782686dea@app.fastmail.com> References: <458c2a3b-1139-4449-a4a9-f23782686dea@app.fastmail.com>
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Will this break binary compatibility with older programs expecting those sym= bols in libc and not linked to libsys? > On Feb 3, 2024, at 3:39=E2=80=AFAM, Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> w= rote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn Fri, 2 Feb 2024, at 23:31, Brooks Davis wrote: >> TL;DR: The implementation of system calls is moving to a seperate >> library (libsys). No changes are required to existing software (except >> to ensure that libsys is present when building custom disk images). >>=20 >> Code: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/908 >>=20 >> After nearly a decade of intermittent work, I'm about to land a series >> of patches which moves system calls, vdso support, and libc's parsing of >> the ELF auxiliary argument vector into a separate library (libsys). I >> plan to do this early next week (February 5th). >>=20 >> This change serves three primary purposes: >> 1. It's easier to completely replace system call implementations for >> tracing or compartmentalization purposes. >> 2. It simplifies the implementation of restrictions on system calls such= >> as those implemented by OpenBSD's msyscall(2) >> (https://man.openbsd.org/msyscall.2). >> 3. It allows language runtimes to link with libsys for system call >> implementations without requiring libc. >=20 > Awesome! So (3) is generally considered ideal for languages like zig[1], r= ust or go, to use directly? >=20 > What=E2=80=99s the appropriate mechanism for such a language to know which= version of FreeBSD it=E2=80=99s talking to, to ensure syscall table matches= the languages expectations? >=20 > It would be nice to hear about any experiments in (2) and how that compare= s to things such as capsicum. >=20 > [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/165 >=20 > A+ > Dave >=20 >=20
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