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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfa] remote-fileio.c, remote_fileio_func_fstat, uninitialized st.st_ino.
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6FCE37.1090902@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303105029.GA22636@calimero.vinschen.de>

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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  3 10:04, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On Thursday 03 March 2011 09:25:32, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>>> I'm just wondering, can we assume that the stat structure has always an
>>>> st_ino member?  THere are checks for st_blocks and st_blksize in place
>>>> already.  Is the same required for st_ino?
>>> I think it's fine, at least for now.  The good news is that this
>>> field is described in the Open Group's page for this type:
>>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html
>>> So I think we can count on it (although, I don't know enough about C
>>> to know how much authority this has)
>>>
>>> But, regardless, I think we can leave it be until such day where
>>> we actually come across a system where the field actually does not
>>> exist... When that happens, we can easily fix the build failure.
>> Can't we just memset `st' instead?
> 
> That would be the simplest solution.  Afterwards, just set the
> non-zero fields.

OK, how about this?


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2011-03-03  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@vmware.com>

	* remote-fileio.c (remote_fileio_func_fstat): Initialize all
	fields of struct 'st' to zero.

Index: remote-fileio.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/remote-fileio.c,v
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.40 remote-fileio.c
--- remote-fileio.c	25 Jan 2011 11:54:00 -0000	1.40
+++ remote-fileio.c	3 Mar 2011 17:20:06 -0000
@@ -1173,20 +1173,15 @@ remote_fileio_func_fstat (char *buf)
   if (fd == FIO_FD_CONSOLE_IN || fd == FIO_FD_CONSOLE_OUT)
     {
       remote_fileio_to_fio_uint (1, fst.fst_dev);
+      memset (&st, 0, sizeof (st));
       st.st_mode = S_IFCHR | (fd == FIO_FD_CONSOLE_IN ? S_IRUSR : S_IWUSR);
       st.st_nlink = 1;
 #ifdef HAVE_GETUID
       st.st_uid = getuid ();
-#else
-      st.st_uid = 0;
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_GETGID
       st.st_gid = getgid ();
-#else
-      st.st_gid = 0;
 #endif
-      st.st_rdev = 0;
-      st.st_size = 0;
 #ifdef HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE
       st.st_blksize = 512;
 #endif

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-02 21:49 Michael Snyder
2011-03-03  4:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-03  8:29   ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-03-03  9:25     ` Joel Brobecker
2011-03-03 10:04       ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-03 10:51         ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-03-03 17:22           ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2011-03-03 17:35             ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-03-03 18:36               ` Michael Snyder

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