Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/ssp

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

On 2023-11-14 10:31 pm, Jörg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:15:28 AM CET you wrote:

> The functions are supposed to be transparent and they used to be. Can 
> we
> please just go back to the working state before? IMO wanting to 
> overriding
> getcwd is absolutely no justification for this. If the prototype (and 
> inline
> function) is visible from the header, userland should *not* be abled to
> interpose it. If it is not visible due to standard headers, there was 
> no
> problem in first place.

Before I go and revert, can we have a consensus if the state is better 
now
or before? From my PoV the changes add some complexity, but they fix
the original problem (overriding getcwd) in the PR.

Regardless if it is justifiable or not, the result was unexpected since
compiling with fortify does not work, but compiling without does.

christos