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Re: Filestreams (and 64bit inodes)

To: Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Filestreams (and 64bit inodes)
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:46:59 -0500
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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


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