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Re: [RFC][PATCH]BZ#2337 Fix for spurious free of user buffer on fclose with wide char orientation.


On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:37 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> > I started working on a fix and could continue working on this if you'd
> > like?  I suspect it'll require providing wide-character functions for
> > most of the _IO_wfile_jumps vtable entries that currently re-use the
> > non-wide character oriented functions.
> 
> While parallelism is good in this case I suggest you leave this to me.
> The libio code is terribly complicated by the fact that there are many
> assumptions which are not explicitly spelled out.  Assumptions mainly
> from the possible use outside of libc (e.g., older libstdc++ used the
> libio code in libc.so).
> 

Sounds good.  I'll reference this archived conversation in the bugzilla
entry and reassign the bug to you.

Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center


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