From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] posix: Allow glob to match dangling symlinks [BZ #866]
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 07:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <224bb5ab-daf0-f433-156d-ae25b2ae873a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74d2ab7c-d6e1-10ff-a254-498438c999fe@cs.ucla.edu>
On 09/17/2017 09:16 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> If the BSDs are currently source-code-compatible, why doesn't GNU make
>> fail there already?
>
> Because GNU make never uses BSD glob. GNU make's 'configure' script
> checks that _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION equals 1, and if not it compiles
> and uses its own glob implementation (copied from an old version of glibc).
Ah, thanks.
> If glibc changed _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION to 2, old versions of GNU
> make would start rejecting new versions of glibc, and so would build and
> run OK because they'd use their old copy of glob. The comment in
> gnu-versions.h says that if we change _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION then
> we must change the libc.so major version, but this rule seems arbitrary.
This comment predates the availability of symbol versioning. It was
true when it was written.
> Suppose we ignore the gnu-versions.h comment and update
> _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION to 2 without changing libc.so's major
> version. Wouldn't this fix the compatibility problem with GNU Make?
In addition to adding a compat symbols? Yes, that could work.
I don't really like this situation, but this combination seems to be a
somewhat reasonable way to fix both the glob bug and preserve backwards
compatibility.
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-17 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 20:25 [PATCH 0/9] posix: glob fixes and refactor Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 1/9] posix: Sync glob with gnulib [BZ #1062] Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 2:01 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 12:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 14:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 17:06 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 4/9] Sync scratch_buffer with gnulib Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-18 6:09 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-18 11:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-18 11:57 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-18 12:25 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/9] posix: accept inode 0 is a valid inode number (BZ #19971) Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 7/9] posix: Consolidate glob implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 7:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:08 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 14:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:29 ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-12 14:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:50 ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-12 12:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 14:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 12:26 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 5/9] posix: Fix getpwnam_r usage (BZ #1062) Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 8/9] posix: Use enum for __glob_pattern_type result Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 1:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 4:18 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 13:04 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 16:18 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 16:54 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 6/9] posix: fix glob bugs with long login names Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 3/9] posix: Allow glob to match dangling symlinks [BZ #866] Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 1:27 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 12:57 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-09 9:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-09 11:56 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-09 17:02 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-09 17:11 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-09 17:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-09 17:33 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-10 8:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-10 17:13 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 14:34 ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-11 14:38 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-11 16:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 17:25 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-11 17:38 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 17:56 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-11 18:03 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 20:09 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-13 9:14 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-13 12:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-14 10:05 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-09-14 13:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-15 20:18 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-15 20:27 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-17 7:16 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-17 7:48 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-09-17 14:18 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 9/9] posix: Fix glob with GLOB_NOCHECK returning modified patterns (BZ#10246) Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-07 22:14 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-08 9:16 ` Adhemerval Zanella
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