[systemd-devel] [PATCH 3/3] core: remove unneeded <libgen.h> include

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Wed Feb 11 09:21:47 PST 2015


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:18:54PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 11.02.15 18:10, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:05:13PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > On Mon, 09.02.15 21:41, Cristian Rodríguez (crrodriguez at opensuse.org) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > execute.c only uses basename (the GNU version in <string.h>)
> > > 
> > > Is this right even?
> > > 
> > > This was added by Zbigniew in 2b6bf07dd23bb467099d213c97b3875c5e453491:
> > > 
> > >     "Get rid of our reimplementation of basename
> > >     
> > >     The only problem is that libgen.h #defines basename to point to
> > >     it's own broken implementation instead of the GNU one. This can be
> > >     fixed by #undefining basename."
> > > 
> > > 
> > > So, what's this about?
> > > 
> > > Somehow, given how stupid basename is defined, I am tempted to
> > > introduce a call for this again, that is not stupid, and works for all
> > > cases without ambiguities.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, Zbigniew, could you comment on this, please?
> > I think the patch is fine. As long as every libgen.h include is followed
> > by #undef basename, things are OK.
> 
> Can you elaborate on the background of this? Why the #undef precisely?
> The man page says nothing about this?
libgen.h contains

extern char *__xpg_basename (char *__path) __THROW;
#define basename	    __xpg_basename

And __xpg_basename is the borked implementation. #undef basename means that
we use the GNU version instead.

Zbyszek


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