[LTP] [RFC] [PATCH] safe_macros: Add fallback pwrite() and pread() declarations

Jan Stancek
2017-01-12T09:07:09Z

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyril Hrubis" <chrubis@suse.cz>
> To: "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>
> Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
> Sent: Thursday, 12 January, 2017 10:02:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [LTP] [RFC] [PATCH] safe_macros: Add fallback pwrite() and pread() declarations
>
> Hi!
> > > I was thinking about this, and I think that we should rather go with a
> > > safer approach, i.e. moving the safe_pread/safe_pwrite into a separate
> > > header. Something as the following patch.
> >
> > +1 for safer approach, I didn't know about glibc macros.
> > Does this affect oldlib too?
>
> Not anymore, there was one user with zero offset which was converted to
> plain old SAFE_WRITE() and these two safe macros were then removed from
> oldlib safe macros in f4b028122.

Ah, I see. No objections to patch from my side.

Regards,
Jan

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> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
>