[PATCH] Fix readdir_r with long file names

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Mar 3 22:39:00 GMT 2016


On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Paul Eggert wrote:

> analyzers that the array in question may be larger. It also adds a
> compile-time option (default off) to simply use flexible arrays without the
> backwards-compatibility hack. We could use that option in Gnulib.

I don't think such a compile-time option is desirable (especially not 
undocumented, all feature test macros should be documented in 
creature.texi); we shouldn't profilerate feature-test macros for things 
that aren't well-defined API groups.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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