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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index ed1bcdf..157d534 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Wed Nov 13 19:51:05 2002 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com> + + * utils.c (gdb_realpath): Add comment mentioning realpath with a + NULL buffer. + 2002-11-13 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com> * regcache.h (deprecated_read_register_bytes): Rename diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c index 62e4020..06fb593 100644 --- a/gdb/utils.c +++ b/gdb/utils.c @@ -2739,6 +2739,15 @@ gdb_realpath (const char *filename) } #endif + /* FIXME: cagney/2002-11-13: + + Method 2a: Use realpath() with a NULL buffer. Some systems, due + to the problems described in in method 3, have modified their + realpath() implementation so that it will allocate a buffer when + NULL is passed in. Before this can be used, though, some sort of + configure time test would need to be added. Otherwize the code + will likely core dump. */ + /* Method 3: Now we're getting desperate! The system doesn't have a compile time buffer size and no alternative function. Query the OS, using pathconf(), for the buffer limit. Care is needed |