From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m5D3k3sX025191 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:03 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E1B9722535C for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 7JrKy4o2hjiICQXo for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4851EDB3.1010601@sandeen.net> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:46:59 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Filestreams (and 64bit inodes) References: <484B15A3.4030505@sauce.co.nz> <484CA425.3080606@sandeen.net> <484DDDB3.70000@sgi.com> <484F0998.90306@sauce.co.nz> <484F2CD7.9070506@sgi.com> <484F452A.8090909@sandeen.net> <48512A34.1020604@sandeen.net> <4851CD32.7080106@melbourne.sgi.com> <4851E774.2070401@sgi.com> <4851EC2D.6010504@melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <4851EC2D.6010504@melbourne.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Greg Banks Cc: markgw@sgi.com, Timothy Shimmin , Richard Scobie , xfs@oss.sgi.com Greg Banks wrote: >> (and the plan for statically linked apps? ...) > > Perhaps Fedora could enable the glibc magic for issuing warnings at link > time when those symbols are used, like what happens today if you use the > old unsafe gets() function: > > gnb@inara 1058> gcc -o fmeh x.c > /tmp/ccQhxIIo.o: In function `main': > x.c:(.text+0x18): warning: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used. It wouldn't help the automated builds (nobody'd see it) but for normal user compilations that might be an option... -Eric