[PATCH] posix: Add compat glob symbol to not follow dangling symbols

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Sep 15 19:52:00 GMT 2017


On 09/15/2017 09:21 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> This follow commit 5554304f0 (posix: Allow glob to match dangling
> symlinks [BZ #866]) by adding a compat symbol that follow previous
> semantic of not following dangling symlinks and thus avoiding call
> gl_lstat with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC.
> 
> This avoid failure with old binaries that not set the alternate function
> pointer for lstat, GNUmake for instance.

Will simple recompilation of GNU make reintroduce the access to an 
uninitialized gl_lstat pointer?

Thanks,
Florian



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