readlink bugs
Denis Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 20 18:45:12 UTC 2006
On Friday 20 October 2006 20:09, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 20 October 2006 9:27 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > >Please don't botch busybox but reuse the stuff that is already there ;)
> >
> > I won't. That was just how one can prove that glibc doesn't flush streams.
>
> Or one can look at the original bugfix I applied, which I gave a URL to
> earlier in this thread, which showed how to reproduce the problem with
> a "hello world" program and showed it was clearly not a BusyBox bug and also
> indicated that I'd tried it against uClibc and the bug was not in uClibc.
>
> You can, of course, add code to busybox to work around bugs in glibc. But
> anybody statically linking against glibc obviously does not care about size
> at all, so dropping the optimization flags struck me as the best solution at
> the time.
Tried to, found it non-trivial to detect from Makefile
that our libc is glibc. Added a compile-time error intead for now.
Will find a buildable solution as soon as someone will really want
to have static busybox + glibc.
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