Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build [Re: [mingw rfc] Add mkdtemp to gdb/gnulib/]

Kai Tietz
2014-12-16T09:04:13Z

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> > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:55:51 +0100
> > From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> > Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, yao@codesourcery.com,
> > gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> > ktietz@redhat.com
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:28:01 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > > The 'compile' project needs a larger port effort to run on MS-Windows.
> >
> > For example there is also
> >
> > compile/compile.c:
> > zap = concat ("rm -rf ", dir, (char *) NULL);
> > system (zap);
>
> Yuck! Do we really allow such atrocities in GDB? What if 'rm' is
> some unrelated or even malicious script?
>
> I think this should be replaced by suitable C function calls. IMO,
> this kind of programming is OK for prototyping, but not for the final
> code.
>

Ouch, to use console is for sure a bad thing. To use POSIX-shell commands is even worse. Why not using here instead an implementation using FTW-API? At least mingw-w64 added this API recently to runtime for gcc's sake, so implementation of an 'rm -rf' should be pretty easy.

Kai