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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