Re: Linux getdents.c is not aliasing safe
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:12:25PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 07:48:24PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I've put in a fix similar to yours but with cosmetic differences.
> > I believe it is valid C99.
>
> Thanks, that's much cleaner than my solution. It looks safe to me;
> I'll give it a try.
I'm not sure that it's valid C99 - my impression is that it isn't, and
the only valid way would be to have a function return the DIRENT_TYPE
by value - but it's valid GNU C and it fixes the bug I was chasing.
Thanks!
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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