The realpath syscall can attempt to return arbitrarily long paths, in particular
paths that are longer than PATH_MAX. The only way to detect this case is
checking whether 'rc', the true length of the returned path including NUL byte,
exceeds our buffer length. In such a case, the buffer contains invalid data.
All Serenity code calls LibC's realpath() with a nullptr buffer, meaning that
realpath is supposed to allocate memory on its own. All Serenity code can handle
arbitrarily long paths returned by LibC's realpath, so it is safe to "do the
dance" and repeat the syscall with a new buffer.
Ports are likely to be graceful in this regard, too. If a Port calls realpath()
with a pre-allocated buffer, however, there is nothing better we can do than
return a truncated buffer.
The priority boosting mechanism has been broken for a very long time.
Let's remove it from the codebase and we can bring it back the day
someone feels like implementing it in a working way. :^)
64 was cutting it pretty close, especially now as we start using file
descriptor passing more and more.
This (1024) matches many other systems, and if we need more there's
always sys$poll().
This patch adds a new AnonymousFile class which is a File backed by
an AnonymousVMObject that can only be mmap'ed and nothing else, really.
I'm hoping that this can become a replacement for shbufs. :^)
This API was a mostly gratuitous deviation from POSIX that gave up some
portability in exchange for avoiding the occasional strlen().
I don't think that was actually achieving anything valuable, so let's
just chill out and have the same open() API as everyone else. :^)
