Titles check for a plugin with sceKernelStat before loading it through the engine path. The relinker emits only X.prx.guest.prx, so the check failed and PSNCore started with the raw (0, NULL) arguments. Share the dlopen mapping with sceKernelStat, read-only sceKernelOpen and sceKernelCheckReachability when the original name is absent.
dup and dup2 of a Windows directory descriptor threw. FreeBSD's
kern_dup makes both descriptors refer to one open file, so they share
the read position; the duplicate now points at the same DirectoryState,
which getdents and lseek go through, and keeps it after the original
is closed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Guest descriptors are host descriptors, so a guest that moves standard
error with dup2 also moves the stream sceKernelDebugOutText writes to. A
title that forwards its standard error to the kernel log through a pipe
then reads its own debug output back and logs it again without end. Before
the guest's first dup2 onto descriptor 2, the host's standard error is kept,
and sceKernelDebugOutText writes there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fcntl and sceKernelFcntl read a third argument as a 64-bit integer for
every command on a non-socket descriptor. F_GETFD and F_GETFL pass no
third argument, and the commands that take one pass an int or a pointer.
They now read nothing, an int or a pointer, by command. An int read as
a 64-bit value kept whatever the caller left in the upper half of the
register, so F_READAHEAD -1 enabled read-ahead instead of disabling it.
ioctl and _ioctl answered EBADF for every descriptor outside the
libSceNet socket table. Decoded call sites: PS5MC (PPSA99420, FIONBIO x3,
FIONREAD x2, TIOCGWINSZ x3), ProsperoTV (PPSA99003, FIONBIO on a pipe
once poll on pipes is in), XPSemu (PPSA97358, 21 sites).
Following FreeBSD 11.4 kern_ioctl (sys/kern/sys_generic.c:758),
vn_ioctl (sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c:1488), pipe_ioctl (sys/kern/sys_pipe.c:1346)
and randomdev_ioctl (sys/dev/random/randomdev.c:301), release/11.4.0
8c639945: FIONBIO sets or clears O_NONBLOCK through the same status
flags as fcntl F_SETFL (EFAULT for a null argument before EBADF);
FIONREAD reports the size past the offset of a file, the queued bytes of
a pipe's read end, 0 on its write end, ENOTTY on the random device, and
throws on a directory or another character device; termios requests
(group 't', TIOCGWINSZ included) fail with ENOTTY, as tcgetattr already
takes these descriptors as not a terminal; any other request throws
naming the request and descriptor kind. Sockets keep their path
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fcntl and sceKernelFcntl answered EBADF (sceKernelFcntl threw) for
every descriptor outside the libSceNet socket table, so files, pipes,
directories and descriptors 0 to 2 could not be queried or changed.
Observed: Yamagi Quake II (PPSA99007) stops with
"Sys_Error: change stdin to blocking Bad file descriptor", from
fcntl(fileno(stdin), F_SETFL, fcntl(0, F_GETFL, 0) & ~FNDELAY)
(yquake2 src/backends/unix/system.c:81-86).
Predicted from the titles' sources and decoded call sites: XPSemu
(PPSA97358, 97 fcntl sites: F_GETFD 12, F_SETFD 20, F_GETFL 8,
F_SETFL 9, F_DUPFD 1, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC 7, F_GETLK 9) fails in
qemu_init_main_loop, where its pipe2 (pipe plus F_SETFD FD_CLOEXEC) and
glib's g_unix_set_fd_nonblocking (F_GETFL, F_SETFL) build the event
notifier (util/event_notifier-posix.c:44-67); VLC (PPSA85300, 43 sites,
F_RDAHEAD on every file it opens), RetroArch (PPSA99169, 17),
Porpoise (PPSA99764, 13) and Ruffle (9) call it on files and pipes.
The commands follow FreeBSD 11.4 kern_fcntl and kern_dup
(sys/kern/kern_descrip.c:479-799, 812, release/11.4.0 8c639945):
F_GETFD/F_SETFD keep the close-on-exec flag per descriptor, F_GETFL
reports the host access mode with the status flags, F_SETFL changes
only O_NONBLOCK, O_APPEND, O_ASYNC, O_FSYNC, O_DIRECT and FRDAHEAD,
F_DUPFD/F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC give the lowest free descriptor at or above the
start through dup (EINVAL for a negative start), F_DUP2FD goes through
dup2, F_RDAHEAD/F_READAHEAD set FRDAHEAD on files (EBADF on pipes,
ENOTTY elsewhere), and unknown commands fail with EINVAL. Status flags
live in a guest table shared by dup, dup2 and F_DUPFD like an open file
description. O_NONBLOCK switches a pipe (PIPE_NOWAIT on Windows, where an
empty read and a full write now report EAGAIN; the host flag on Linux).
Record locks use the host POSIX locks on Linux and throw on Windows.
Changes the host cannot model throw naming the flag and descriptor kind.
Sockets keep their path unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep guest creation-mask state in libc behind C-linkage helpers so NID
patching preserves the shared exports. Reject a pinned descriptor whose
file identity differs from the snapshot taken before classification.
Exercise close and reuse from another thread at both acquisition windows
for writes, resize and seek, and create temporary ordinary-file fixtures
so runtime tests work without the source tree.
Constraint: NID exemptions require the literal suffix at the end of the exported symbol
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Tested: 18 targeted Linux runtime tests with zero skips; patched_libraries for libc/libkernel/libkernel_sys; standalone ASan/UBSan with warnings as errors; source-prefix-remapped fixtures; Clang analyzer and conventions
Not-tested: Full project build and library set, Windows runtime, console hardware and titles
Directive: Device/inode validation establishes file identity, not open-file-description identity
Pin the descriptor before mmap validation so guest descriptor reuse cannot
redirect the eventual mapping. Apply the canonical guest creation mask when
creating named objects, distinguishing new objects before setting permissions
without changing the host process umask. Add regressions that reproduce both
failures and document the remaining host requirements.
Constraint: Guest umask must not mutate the process-wide host mask
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Tested: 17 targeted Linux runtime tests passed with zero skips; conventions and diff checks; Clang analyzer on three changed production translation units
Not-tested: Full project build and suite, Windows runtime, console hardware and titles
Complete the object lifecycle through guest mapping and unlink APIs, and
preserve FreeBSD shared-object size and seek rules across scalar, vector
and asynchronous descriptor writes. Pin descriptors during operations and
coordinate size-sensitive operations across cooperating emulator processes.
Constraint: Linux host support with existing dependencies and allocation tracking
Rejected: Bare descriptor registry | close, duplication and reuse invalidate identity
Rejected: Per-object OFD locks | forked descriptors share the same lock description
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep guest resize, truncating open and bounded writes under the same namespace guard
Tested: Ten Linux runtime suites; focused shared-memory ASan/UBSan suite with warnings as errors
Not-tested: Windows build, PS5 hardware and title compatibility
sceKernelOpen built the host flags from the bits it knows and dropped
O_NOFOLLOW (0x100), so open and sceKernelOpen with O_NOFOLLOW followed
a symbolic link and opened its target, and with O_CREAT created the
missing target of a dangling link.
FreeBSD looks up the last component without following it when
O_NOFOLLOW is set (sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c, vn_open_cred:
"((fmode & O_NOFOLLOW) ? NOFOLLOW : FOLLOW) | LOCKLEAF", and with
O_CREAT "if ((fmode & O_EXCL) == 0 && (fmode & O_NOFOLLOW) == 0)
ndp->ni_cnd.cn_flags |= FOLLOW;"), and then refuses the link itself in
vn_open_vnode: "if (vp->v_type == VLNK) return (EMLINK);".
open now fails with EMLINK when O_NOFOLLOW is set and the path names a
symbolic link. O_CREAT | O_EXCL keeps failing with EEXIST, and a
trailing slash still resolves through the link.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Neither existed under the guest root, so opening them failed and titles
that then read from the descriptor crashed. Opening either for reading
now returns a descriptor whose reads, positioned reads and vector reads
fill the buffer from the host's random device, as
sceRandomGetRandomNumber does. Opening them for writing throws.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
flock mapped each call straight onto LockFileEx/UnlockFileEx, whose
byte-range locks stack per handle. LOCK_UN without a lock failed with
ERROR_NOT_LOCKED and aborted the process, a repeated LOCK_EX blocked
forever, converting between shared and exclusive failed, and a repeated
LOCK_SH needed as many unlocks.
Track the one lock each descriptor holds: a repeated mode and LOCK_UN
without a lock succeed, a conversion releases the old lock before taking
the new one, and close forgets the descriptor's lock.
Each Windows AIO request is an overlapped ReadFile/WriteFile at the
request's offset, which on a synchronous handle also moves the
descriptor's file pointer; on the console AIO transfers leave it alone.
The requests now go through the positioned path sceKernelPread and
sceKernelPwrite use (NativePositioned in Stdio.cpp, exposed as
NativePositioned_nid_no_patch), which restores the pointer afterwards.
Negative offsets still fail with EINVAL before the transfer.
GuestAio sets the offset to 2 before a write batch and checks it is
still 2 after. TechnicalDebt records that a concurrent read or write on
the same descriptor can see the moved pointer in between, as for the
pread family.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UTjpbMX7BUFMZZaxJE98zV
Only the lines this branch added lose their comments; the commits before
keep them, with the reasoning behind each change, for whoever digs into
that code later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
libkernel:
- direct memory keeps its contents per physical page across unmap and
remap; a page mapped at two live addresses at once throws
- sceKernelDirectMemoryQuery answers from tracked allocations
- SCE protections read back as set, GPU and AMPR bits included
- APR prefix path resolve, file size and stat by id, positional reads,
fsync/pread/pwrite; directories open as descriptors on Windows
- sceKernelCheckReachability, getpeername, shutdown
- Dinkumware C11 threads (_Mtx_*, _Cnd_*, _Thrd_*) in the title libc
layout; any pthread stack size, rounded at thread creation
libc:
- unaddressed guest mappings go to the system-managed area from
0x2_0000_0000, leaving the application area to fixed mappings
- the process starts in /app0
- guest sscanf on Windows; a null %s prints as (null) as on FreeBSD
- localeconv, _FNan, _FDtest, _FExp, __udivti3, wcsncpy_s, aligned
operator new, _Throw_Cpp_error
Tests: direct memory following physical pages, guest formatting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolve conflicts with boykopovar/AnyPS5#10 (sce module loading) and
later upstream changes.
- Pthread Cond/Mutex: take upstream. It already releases mutex
ownership across condition waits, returns ETIMEDOUT 0x8002003C, and
rejects unlocks from non-owners for every mutex type.
- Pthread Thread: keep upstream's lifecycle, Windows adoption and job
affinity; re-apply the POSIX fixes on top: reference-counted
release on join/detach/exit, self-join rejection on both platforms,
and scePthreadSelf adoption for threads not created by
scePthreadCreate.
- Semaphore: keep upstream's TimedWait::Condition and wait tracing;
re-apply sceKernelDeleteSema waking waiters with EACCES.
- Relinker: keep --windows-gui alongside upstream's --skip-sce-module,
trampoline-aware Patch signature and new Python tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018emyZ4Rk8yoSJvxTFBe4DL
Brings in main up to 9958d26 (homebrew runtime, POSIX wrappers in
libkernel, sce_module guest modules and --skip-sce-module, the --to-intel
general pipeline, libSceRandom, libSceRtc, libScePosixForWebKit,
libRenoirCore, test wiring).
Resolutions where both sides implemented the same thing:
- libkernel pthread: main's structure (lazy static initialisation,
destroyed markers, MutexOperations/CondOperations, mutex protocol and
condattr clock) with this branch's TimedWait deadlines and condition
(precise timed lock/wait on Windows), wait tracing, the adaptive mutex
type 4, POSIX default ERRORCHECK mutexes, EDEADLK/EPERM results instead
of throws, and condition clocks honoured for absolute timeouts.
- libc locale: the guest Dinkumware ABI (_Locimp, facet vtables, short
ctype/case tables, locale ids, stream storage) is kept because guest code
inlines those layouts; main's C character functions are kept on top.
- libc stdio/strings/math: main's stream functions (guest FILE status
sync), strerror/perror, remove, formatting, string and math exports win
over this branch's duplicates.
- libc paths: main's working directory with this branch's path aliases
resolved on the normalised guest path.
- libkernel file: this branch's sceKernel* results as SCE errors, main's
POSIX wrappers and both fstat helpers.
- relinker: this branch's stub lowering keeps its trampolines through the
main executable path; guest modules refuse lowerings that need stubs.
- AGC driver: main's rendering wait is executed by this branch's workers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0177gthrWEBBfBu5xJDXgBfo
- libc: reserve guest memory in one arena below the PS5 map limit with
MEM_WRITE_WATCH (GuestArena) and a caching guest heap; the allocation
registry gains a generation counter, an invalidator callback for the
driver's page cache and a pin waiter for leased ranges. This replaces
the fault-based GuestMemoryTracking/GuestMemoryBacking layer, whose
files are removed.
- libkernel: mmap/mprotect/munmap on the arena, flexible memory budget,
real sceKernelVirtualQuery; POSIX pthread layer, rwlocks, timed locks,
TSD, event flags; 0.5 ms scheduler tick and high-resolution sleeps;
TSC/clock/time functions; file APIs return SCE errno codes; the APR
file-streaming API.
- libc: vectored crash reporter with backtraces for fatal exceptions,
SIGABRT, UCRT invalid parameters and process exit; SSE4a EXTRQ/INSERTQ
emulation for Intel hosts; %ls/%lc/%S/%C with the guest's 16-bit
wchar_t; hand-written setjmp/longjmp for the guest jmp_buf; a path
alias table for short save-data mount points; more string, stdio and
math exports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0177gthrWEBBfBu5xJDXgBfo
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