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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Duy Nguyen" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Vasco Almeida" <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>,
	"Jiang Xin" <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 15:55:01 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqftwrc20q.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181025062037.GC11460@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2018 02:20:38 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I.e., could we mostly ignore this problem as not applying to most modern
> systems? And if there is such a system, give it a fallback like:
>
>   /*
>    * For systems that use a single buffer for getenv(), this hacks
>    * around it by giving it _four_ buffers. That's just punting on
>    * the problem, but it at least gives enough breathing room for
>    * the caller to do something sane like use non-trivial functions
>    * to copy the string. It still does nothing for threading, but
>    * hopefully such systems don't support pthreads in the first place. ;)
>    */

Tempting.

> I dunno. Maybe I am being overly optimistic. But I strongly suspect we
> have such bugs already in our code base, and nobody has run into them

Yeah, I tend to agree that I would not be surprised at all if we
have many such "bugs" that triggers for nobody on modern platforms.


      reply	other threads:[~2018-10-27  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-22 15:36 [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-22 20:22 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 1/8] test-lib.sh: preserve GIT_GETTEXT_POISON from the environment SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 2/8] gettext: don't poison if GIT_GETTEXT_POISON is set but empty SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:38     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 3/8] lib-rebase: loosen GETTEXT_POISON check in fake editor SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 4/8] gettext: #ifdef away GETTEXT POISON-related code from _() and Q_() SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 5/8] gettext: put "# GETTEXT POISON #" string literal into a macro SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 6/8] gettext: use an enum for the mode of GETTEXT POISONing SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 7/8] gettext: introduce GIT_GETTEXT_POISON=scrambled SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-23 14:44     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-22 20:22   ` [PATCH 8/8] travis-ci: run GETTEXT POISON build job in scrambled mode, too SZEDER Gábor
2018-10-23 14:37   ` [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language Duy Nguyen
2018-10-27 10:11   ` Jakub Narebski
2018-10-22 20:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-22 21:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 21:46   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 23:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-23 21:01     ` [PATCH] i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-24  5:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-24  7:44         ` Jeff King
2018-10-25  1:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-25  1:09             ` Jeff King
2018-10-25  1:24               ` Ramsay Jones
2018-10-25 21:23                 ` Jeff King
2018-10-26 19:20                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-27  6:59                     ` Jeff King
2018-10-27 10:42                       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-24 11:47         ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-01 19:31           ` [PATCH v3] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-02  3:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-02 16:37             ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-11-08 20:26               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-08 20:51                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-11-08  3:24             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-08 19:12               ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-08 21:15             ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-08 21:15             ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-08 21:15             ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Makefile: ease dynamic-gettext-poison transition Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-23  9:30   ` [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-23 10:17     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-23 11:07       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-10-23 15:00       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-23 16:45         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-24 14:41           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-24 17:54             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-25  3:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-25  6:20               ` Jeff King
2018-10-27  6:55                 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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