sizes of pathnames produced by expansion of tilde (home-directory)
prefixes by replacing S_pathname, S_pathname_impl, and S_homedir
with S_malloc_pathname, which always mallocs space for the result.
one thread-safety issue involved the use of static strings for expanded
pathnames and affected various file-system operations. the other
affected the file open routines and involved use of the incoming
pathname while deactivated. the incoming pathname is sometimes if not
always a pointer into a Scheme bytevector, which can be overwritten if a
collection occurs while the thread is deactivated. the size limitation
corresponded to the use of the static strings, which were limited to
PATH_MAX bytes. (PATH_MAX typically isn't actually the maximum path
length in contemporary operating systems.) eliminated similar issues
for wide pathnames under Windows by adding S_malloc_wide_pathname.
consumers of the old routines have been modified to use the new
routines and to free the result strings. the various file operations
now consistently treat a pathname with an unresolvable home directory
as a pathname that happens to start with a tilde. eliminated unused
foreign-symbol binding of "(cs)pathname" to S_pathname.
io.c, externs.h, new_io.c, prim5.c, scheme.c, prim.c
- various places where a call to close or gzclose was retried when
the close operation was interrupted no longer do so, since this can
cause problems when another thread has reallocated the same file
descriptor.
new_io.c
- now using vcvarsall type x86_amd64 rather than amd64 when the
former appears to supported and the latter does not, as is the
case with VS Express 2015.
c/Mf-a6nt, c/Mf-ta6nt
- commented out one of the thread mats that consistently causes
indefinite delays under Windows and OpenBSD due to starvation.
thread.ms
- increased wait time for a couple of subprocess responses
6.ms
- added call to collector to close files opened during iconv mats
specifically for when mats are run under Windows with no iconv dll.
io.ms
original commit: ad44924307c576eb2fc92e7958afe8b615a7f48b
