[PATCH 0/3] explicit_bzero v5

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Wed Nov 16 20:06:00 GMT 2016


On 11/16/2016 03:45 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> (If I were to make the public declaration in string.h redirect to
> __explicit_bzero, then clearly it ought to be a GLIBC_2.xx export rather
> than a GLIBC_PRIVATE export.  But, as I'll go into more elsewhere, I'm
> not convinced that's actually a good idea.)

Ah, that's exactly what I thought we were doing.

So, yes, without a string.h redirect this would seem to be a case for 
GLIBC_PRIVATE.


r~



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