Re: SIGSTKSZ is now a run-time variable

[Eric Blake]

On 3/9/21 10:14 AM, shwaresyst wrote:
> 
> To me that looks like a conformance violation and should be reverted. There 
> is no _SC_SIGSTKSZ defined in <unistd.h> by the standard, to begin with, so 
> that use of sysconf() is a non-portable extension on its own.

Portable apps can't use _SC_SIGSTKSZ, but the standard generally permits
implementations to define further constants.  Then again, re-reading XSH
2.2.2:

" Implementations may add symbols to the headers shown in the following
table, provided the identifiers for those symbols either:

    Begin with the corresponding reserved prefixes in the table, or
..."

but the table lacks a row for <unistd.h> with _CS_* and _SC_* constants.
 Looks like you found an independent defect.

> 
> I could see the definition of SIGSTKSZ being changed to the static minimum a 
> particular processor requires, or is initially allocated as a 'safe' amount, 
> rather than static "default size", and moving SIGSTKSZ to <limits.h>. This 
> would contrast to MINSIGSTKSZ as the lowest value for a platform for all 
> supported processors. Then an application could use sysconf() to query for 
> the maximum size the configuration supports if it wants to use more than 
> that, as a runtime increasable limit.

As I understand it, the concern in glibc is less about runtime
increasability, so much as ABI compatibility with applications compiled
against older headers at a time when the kernel had less state
information to store during a context switch.

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