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Re: [PATCH] Fix read etc. with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>,Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:34:02 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix read etc. with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

> read/pread/pread64/recv/recvfrom do not read operate with strings, but
> arbitrary data.  Therefore it is inappropriate to use
> __builtin_object_size (, 1) for them, they should behave like
> memcpy/memset and other memory operations rather than strcpy/fgets etc.

Quite right.  I put the change in.


Thanks,
Roland

References:
- [PATCH] Fix read etc. with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
  - From: Jakub Jelinek

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