[uClibc] PATCH: use __libc_gettimeofday instead of gettimeofday

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Tue Oct 19 20:18:52 UTC 2004


On Sun Oct 17, 2004 at 05:57:27PM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Would the attached patch be acceptable (maybe instead of 
> __libc_gettimeofday using __gettimeofday)
> 
> We have some issues, see
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65892
> 
> I think, that the bug could happen on more places in uClibc, not only 
> in ssp.c.

Speaking of ssp.c, you seem to have a different version
than uClibc, as that part of your patch does not apply.
Anyway,

> If it would be acceptable, I would do the same for
> strcpy,strncat,strlen,strncpy,sigaction,kill,sigprocmask
> (see last proposed patch in the bug report)

Does the propolice patch really modify all of these libc
internals?

 -Erik

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