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Re: [PATCH] nisplus: Correct pwent parsing issue and resulting compilation error


On Mon, 18 Jun 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:

> > Copy and null-terminate NIS+ password file UID and GID entries whose 
> > length is non-zero rather than zero, fixing a bug and a compilation 
> > issue causing an error with GCC 8:
> 
> Note: (a) the warnings are bug 23266, (b) we now have alternative 
> candidate patches, as there's 
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00209.html> as well, (c) 

 Umm, I didn't notice `_nss_nisplus_parse_grent' suffers from the same 
problem and neither GCC bothered here for some reason.

> as I said in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-03/msg00532.html> 
> it would be a very good idea to add a --enable-obsolete-rpc 
> --enable-obsolete-nsl configuration to build-many-glibcs.py so issues 
> building such a configuration with new GCC get detected and fixed quicker.

 Hmm, but why it's been 2+ months and such an obvious fix hasn't been 
reviewed yet?  Insufficient pinging?

  Maciej


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