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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [platform-testers] bug#17655: new snapshot available: grep-2.19.13-ecf36 |
Date: | Sat, 31 May 2014 14:26:26 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 |
The failures on AIX 7.1 (same as last time) annoyed me enough that I installed what I hope is a fix for them as gnulib commit 93ce02b4fa01a3c1c194d91f8fd09e1efe04537c. I don't think these AIX bugs need to slow down the grep release. The only affected flag that grep uses is O_NOFOLLOW, and I think the bug merely causes undefined behavior that happens to behave as if O_NOFOLLOW is not defined, which is all that the fix does anyway. (Luckily for grep users on AIX, the O_NOFOLLOW is used only to avoid a rare race condition.)
I can't help but be curious why the AIX engineers decided to define O_NOFOLLOW to a value outside the 'int' range. Perhaps they had one beer too many?
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