[PATCH v2 12/12] posix: Remove VLA usage for internal fnmatch implementation

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 05 2018, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:

> Re-checking the bug reports related to the issues your patch aims to fix, I
> noted on BZ#14185 comment #5 Jeff Law stated SuSE used to pack an out of tree
> fix but non-longer do it. Do you know why exactly?

I can't answer that question, I wasn't around at that time (the
changelog talks about "obsolete patch", which I don't quite follow).
But this bug is about matching the string, not processing the pattern,
so it is an unrelated issue.

Andreas.

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