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Re: nss_db: protect against empty mappings
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: fweimer at redhat dot com, carlos at redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:45:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: nss_db: protect against empty mappings
- References: <xn7e9idbvf.fsf@greed.delorie.com>
On Jun 18 2019, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Where is this variable used?
>
> It's not, it's just there to make sure the call to is_selinux_enabled
> really happens.
If calling is_selinux_enabled has side effects then it cannot be elided.
If it doesn't, then it is pointless. Assignment to a write-only
variable doesn't change that.
Andreas.
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