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Re: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Reinstantiate fd range check if and only if defined _STRICT_FD_SIZE_CHECK=1


> ... and that is done deliberately accepting that it is breaking some broken
> code.
> if you don't want to deal with it, then don't enable it!
> (and if it's for one package only, it's up to the people who added it to
> cflags, to
> unadd it inside their specfile)

Detecting breaking code is a nice to have. But not to break innocent
applications
is a must to have.  And it's not one package only, as previous
discussion pointed out.

Adding new FORTIFY option is not ideal, but best.


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