GNU bug report logs - #30176
readlinkat and _FORTIFY_SOURCE on Cygwin

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:47:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 30176-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30176: readlinkat and _FORTIFY_SOURCE on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 07:30:26 -0500

On 1/19/2018 6:25 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 4. Fix Cygwin readlinkat so that it can be used as a function pointer 
> even when _FORTIFY_SOURCE is used.
> 
> Why not do what glibc does with readlinkat? It fortifies readlinkat, and 
> doesn't run into this problem.

Sorry, that was stupid of me.  I don't know why I was thinking that this 
was an Emacs issue.

Ken
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