closefrom.2: Add introduction of close_range to HISTORY

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53240

Add manpages for O_CLOFORK flag and others

Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1698

libsys: relocate implementations and manpages

Remove core system call implementations and documentation to lib/libsys
and lib/libsys/<arch> from lib/libc/sys and lib/libc/<arch>/<sys>.
Update paths

libsys: relocate implementations and manpages

Remove core system call implementations and documentation to lib/libsys
and lib/libsys/<arch> from lib/libc/sys and lib/libc/<arch>/<sys>.
Update paths to allow libc to find them in their new home.

Reviewed by: kib, emaste, imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/908

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Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/

fd: add close_range(..., CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC)

For compatibility with Linux.

MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34424

Implement a close_range(2) syscall

close_range(min, max, flags) allows for a range of descriptors to be
closed. The Python folk have indicated that they would much prefer this
interface to closefrom

Implement a close_range(2) syscall

close_range(min, max, flags) allows for a range of descriptors to be
closed. The Python folk have indicated that they would much prefer this
interface to closefrom(2), as the case may be that they/someone have special
fds dup'd to higher in the range and they can't necessarily closefrom(min)
because they don't want to hit the upper range, but relocating them to lower
isn't necessarily feasible.

sys_closefrom has been rewritten to use kern_close_range() using ~0U to
indicate closing to the end of the range. This was chosen rather than
requiring callers of kern_close_range() to hold FILEDESC_SLOCK across the
call to kern_close_range for simplicity.

The flags argument of close_range(2) is currently unused, so any flags set
is currently EINVAL. It was added to the interface in Linux so that future
flags could be added for, e.g., "halt on first error" and things of this
nature.

This patch is based on a syscall of the same design that is expected to be
merged into Linux.

Reviewed by: kib, markj, vangyzen (all slightly earlier revisions)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627

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Reassign copyright statements on several files from Advanced
Computing Technologies LLC to Hudson River Trading LLC.

Approved by: Hudson River Trading LLC (who owns ACT LLC)
MFC after: 1 week

Add a new 'void closefrom(int lowfd)' system call. When called, it closes
any open file descriptors >= 'lowfd'. It is largely identical to the same
function on other operating systems such as Solar

Add a new 'void closefrom(int lowfd)' system call. When called, it closes
any open file descriptors >= 'lowfd'. It is largely identical to the same
function on other operating systems such as Solaris, DFly, NetBSD, and
OpenBSD. One difference from other *BSD is that this closefrom() does not
fail with any errors. In practice, while the manpages for NetBSD and
OpenBSD claim that they return EINTR, they ignore internal errors from
close() and never return EINTR. DFly does return EINTR, but for the common
use case (closing fd's prior to execve()), the caller really wants all
fd's closed and returning EINTR just forces callers to call closefrom() in
a loop until it stops failing.

Note that this implementation of closefrom(2) does not make any effort to
resolve userland races with open(2) in other threads. As such, it is not
multithread safe.

Submitted by: rwatson (initial version)
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 2 weeks

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