clone #750497 -1 retitle -1 mate-menus fails to execute due to Debian/Hurd patch (see #750497) severity -1 grave thanks
Hi Adam, On Mi 04 Jun 2014 01:07:21 CEST, Adam Borowski wrote:
I'm afraid this patch doesn't work. It makes the code compile, but if you
try to execute it, it will assume any symlinks form a loop.
The relevant snippet is:
if (++num_links > MAXSYMLINKS)
{
errno = ELOOP;
goto error;
}
which fails to execute if the returned value is -1. Linux' headers use an
arbitrary bogus value of MAXSYMLINKS 20 to let old code work, Hurd guys
decided that it's better for wrong code to fail at compilation stage.
It's the same story as MAX_PATH.
sysconf(_SC_SYMLOOP_MAX) returns -1 on Linux as well.
with so much background knowledge on this, do you think you can provide a patch for the patch?
Should we simply set MAXSYMLINKS to this value of 20 instead? Thanks, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb
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