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Re: [PATCH] Always do locking when accessing streams (bug 15142, bug 14697)

On Feb 17 2020, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Andreas Schwab:
>
>> On Feb 16 2020, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure if the justification is correct.  We don't know if there
>>> are programs which call flockfile on some file and expect exit to
>>> still work (and terminate the program), which is part of what
>>> nptl/tst-stdio1 tests.
>>
>> But that's exactly what the bug is about.  Random memory corruption
>> cannot be the answer.
>
> Sure, but breaking existing programs so that they never terminate is
> not acceptable, either.

They were always erroneous.

Andreas.

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