http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/ en-us prosody-hg: util-src/pposix.c history util-src/pposix.c revision history Merge 13.0->trunk http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/d975d280baec/util-src/pposix.c Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Mon, 25 May 2026 19:01:23 +0100 util.pposix: Fix incorrect syslog facility mapping http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/573ac422ca1d/util-src/pposix.c
The array of Lua constants accidentally omitted "news", leading to later
constants ("syslog", "user" and "uucp") being assigned to the wrong POSIX
constants.]]> Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Mon, 25 May 2026 15:23:48 +0100 util.pposix: enable compilation on MacOS http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/151babd0853b/util-src/pposix.c morerunes <morerunes@protonmail.com> Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:24:56 -0500 util.pposix: Silence compiler warnings about unused return values http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/904932fc525f/util-src/pposix.c
ast-grep run -p 'freopen("/dev/null", $A, $B);' -r 'if(!freopen("/dev/null", $A, $B)) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to redirect $B to /dev/null"); }'

Thanks Victor Seva]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:49:34 +0100 util.pposix: Add fdopen() to return a Lua file object from an fd http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/f29d15aef6f8/util-src/pposix.c
Now we can, for example, read/write pipes using Lua's standard I/O routines.]]> Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:08:59 +0000 util.pposix: Add pipe() (with support for pipe2() flags on Linux) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/5d4d7ed83f1a/util-src/pposix.c Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Sat, 16 Nov 2024 12:26:55 +0000 util.pposix: Add remove_blocks() for deleting parts of files http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/d16845afb3e2/util-src/pposix.c
Allows implementing e.g. a FIFO

Will probably only work on some Linux file systems like ext4.]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 07 Jun 2023 05:07:03 +0200 util.pposix: Use Lua enum API for resource limit name argument http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/792f360a582b/util-src/pposix.c
Because diffstat.]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:39:39 +0200 util: Add compat for prosody module name change to C sources http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/a187600ec7d6/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:03:07 +0100 util-src: Remove Lua 5.1 compat macros http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/1f6f05a98fcd/util-src/pposix.c
Part of #1600]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:21:21 +0200 util.pposix: Use mallinfo2() on glibc 2.33, fix #1649 http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/760dd1fc3dc1/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:56:06 +0100 util.pposix: Bind isatty(3) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/c368b4f6ee04/util-src/pposix.c
Useful for disabling certain behavior, ANSI colors etc when not
connected to a terminal.]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:11:07 +0200 util-src: Use the luaL_pushfail API added in Lua 5.4 to highlight all failure conditions http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/6eb5d2bb11af/util-src/pposix.c
Actually just an alias of pushnil, but it does make it more obvious
where the failure conditions are, which is good for readability.]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 07 Jun 2020 02:25:56 +0200 util.pposix,signal: Pass around various OS numbers as integers [Lua 5.3] http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/763bb2ce3f60/util-src/pposix.c
Passing around PIDs, UIDs etc as integers makes it more sane in Lua 5.3.
Getting 1234.0 as PID is silly. Shouldn't change any behavior as these
are all integers on the C side and the integral floats are accepted as
integers when passed back from Lua into C.]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Mon, 04 May 2020 21:51:30 +0200 util.*.c: Add static qualifiers everywhere http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/94cacf9fd0ae/util-src/pposix.c Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr> Sun, 01 Dec 2019 20:25:20 +0100 Merge 0.11->trunk http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/db2a06b9ff98/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:52:31 +0100 util.pposix: Avoid overflow of malloc info at 2GB (fixes #1445 until 4GB) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/659b577f280c/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:45:33 +0100 util.pposix: Don't define POSIX_C_SOURCE on FreeBSD to ensure visibility of initgroups() http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/861d510e1876/util-src/pposix.c Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:11:58 +0000 util.pposix: Allow _DARWIN_C_SOURCE to be overriden http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/778d2dbfc784/util-src/pposix.c
Like the others there]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 08 Sep 2018 11:52:44 +0200 Merge 0.10->trunk http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/927adf8648d3/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 08 Sep 2018 11:51:52 +0200 util.pposix: Fix or silence a warning on OS X (#1202) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/37b796cc366a/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 08 Sep 2018 11:46:02 +0200 Merge 0.10->trunk http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/d5c771097ea7/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 08 Sep 2018 11:42:22 +0200 util.pposix: Fix building on OS X (#1202) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/8f9e18d4fe50/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:07:40 +0200 util.pposix: Restrict use of malloc_info to glibc http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/fa6a6f921405/util-src/pposix.c
Fixes build on musl based distros like Alpine linux]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:50:12 +0200 util.pposix: Do not attempt to assign to stdio variables [pedantic] http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/3a13c246b877/util-src/pposix.c
Fixes build on gcc 6.4.0

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/586416]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:25:33 +0200 pposix: Generate an error when a passed string isn’t "unlimited". http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/bad9e8b43f50/util-src/pposix.c Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr> Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:28:42 +0200 pposix, signal: Ignore unused arguments. http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/fee3933ff346/util-src/pposix.c Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr> Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:28:04 +0200 net, pposix, signal: Check for redefined defines, fix warnings. http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/c1d5f52274cf/util-src/pposix.c Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr> Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:27:34 +0200 util.pposix: Use freopen(3) when replacing standard IO streams (thanks ratchetfreak) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/d4c2a3060e7e/util-src/pposix.c
Man page says this is what freopen(3) is for.]]> Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:42:22 +0200 util.pposix: Remove fallocate http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/e898c8fda986/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:26:05 +0100 util.pposix: Add function for atomically appending data to a file http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/49feb0da29e1/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:33:00 +0100 util-src: Specify size of various tables to be allocated http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/1c6a07606309/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Thu, 09 Mar 2017 01:20:59 +0100 util.pposix: Use correct type for limits [-Wconstant-conversion] http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/30309fd01d76/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Tue, 07 Mar 2017 22:36:43 +0100 util.pposix: Limit meminfo to Linux until we can figure out how to get this info on other platforms http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/57f98394b830/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Tue, 07 Mar 2017 22:33:57 +0100 util.pposix, configure: Move _GNU_SOURCE macro into source files http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/b619b85e01aa/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 22:27:11 +0100 util.pposix: Expose ENOENT constant (usually 2, but you never know) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/b009c27818c6/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:03:48 +0100 util.pposix: Fix typo in comment http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/251bf68922d9/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 20:31:08 +0100 util-src/*.c: Attach pointer * to name instead of type http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/b8d694646597/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:42:29 +0100 util-src/*.c: Squeeze repeated blank lines http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/a809dcfd0c5b/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:33:35 +0100 util-src: Make C modules assert that the Lua runtime matches what it was compiled for http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/54669df178c2/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 08 Jan 2017 14:21:08 +0100 util.pposix: rfork() seems to be FreeBSD only (fixes #412) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/93dd90309779/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:51:50 +0100 util.pposix: Ask for shared file descriptor table using rfork() on *BSD (fixes #412) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/5424e24cdcb1/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 25 May 2016 21:34:34 +0200 util.pposix: Expose the uname GNU extension field 'domainname' http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/f12deb882148/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:43:29 +0100 util-src/*.c: Invert Lua 5.2 compat to be 5.2+ by default and a macro to support 5.1 http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/6b180e77c97a/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:38:37 +0200 util.pposix: Return error from ftruncate if that fails too (but what would we do here?) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/113d321976b6/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 02 May 2015 14:41:56 +0200 util-src/*.c: Per convention call luaL_error() as argument to return http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/50eaefeec013/util-src/pposix.c Florian Zeitz <florob@babelmonkeys.de> Fri, 03 Apr 2015 20:30:14 +0200 util-src/*.c: astyle --indent=tab --brackets=attach --indent-switches --break-blocks --pad-oper --unpad-paren --add-brackets --align-pointer=type --lineend=linux http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/8e4572a642cb/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:52:48 +0200 util-src/*.c: Add macro for compiling with Lua 5.2 http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/a552f4170aed/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:30:29 +0200 util-src/*.c: Don't create globals when loaded http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/6c8f6364bc48/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:56:18 +0200 Merge 0.9->0.10 http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/6b1aee6536e8/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:02:20 +0200 util.pposix: Fix error reporting from really old Linux fallocate() that did not use errno for some reason (thanks pro) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/dc3497041aca/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:41:55 +0200 util.pposix: Fix error reporting from posix_fallocate, it doesn't use errno (thanks pro) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/dfe88a0e18fd/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:36:01 +0200 Merge 0.9->0.10 http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/1f6923702fc3/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:17:21 +0100 util.pposix: Verify that file handle is open http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/49e3c49eb0d8/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:12:40 +0100 Merge 0.9->trunk http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/5cf1c08805fb/util-src/pposix.c Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:20:28 +0100 util.pposix: Fix building on non-Linux with glibc http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/57ebf93ec720/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:19:38 +0200 util.pposix: Fix overflow in rlimit argument conversion (thanks gcc, now be quiet please) http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/c98f11bcd0ea/util-src/pposix.c Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:02:52 +0200 Merge http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/449399a7e136/util-src/pposix.c Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:45:47 +0100 util.pposix: Correctly handle 'unlimited' limits (RLIM_INFINITY), by returning and accepting the string 'unlimited' in get/setrlimit() http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/84025249fc04/util-src/pposix.c Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:45:38 +0100 util.pposix: setrlimit(): Add missing return on error when an incorrect number of arguments are passed http://hg.omfa.de/prosody-hg/log/bf98912a4f5b/util-src/pposix.c Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:16:43 +0100