History log of /haiku/headers/private/fs_shell/fssh_dirent.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 7db2616c 18-Nov-2021 Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com>

dirent: Use an actual flexible-length array for d_name.

GCC 11 treats [1] as a fixed-length array and not a flexible-length
array, and so some things that used direct strcmp("..", ent->d_name),
for instance, would be optimized out as being always unequal,
which was the cause of #17389. Using a real FLA informs GCC that
there is going to be more than one byte of data, and thus this
fixes that bug.

BeOS used [1] and not [0], possibly because it had to deal with
compilers (MetroWerks? Early GCC2?) that did not support FLAs.
GCC 2.95 does, using [0], and GCC 4 does, using [], so we can go
with that here.

(I did try using [0] for both, which seems to be OK with GCC 11,
but GCC 8 throws errors when d_name is dereferenced directly
as being-out-of-bounds. So, we have to use the #if here and give
newer GCC the [] syntax and not [0] to avoid that problem.)

The real question probably is whether or not we should backport
some variant of these changes to R1/beta3, as software at HaikuPorts
very well may run in to the same issue. (The alternative workaround
is to compile with -O1 and not -O2 for any affected software.) But
maybe this is an argument for keeping with the beta4 schedule of
this coming January...


# 47a21c5c 30-Aug-2019 Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com>

s/Haiku License/MIT License/g.

They are the same thing.


# a38a92c9 26-Apr-2007 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Beginnings of a new, better portable FS shell with Haiku FS interface.
Doesn't do anything ATM, but already provides the required system
interface (VFS, caches, POSIX functions).


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@20859 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# a38a92c955f46ea3dbd3929ad1398c2b418e80cb 26-Apr-2007 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Beginnings of a new, better portable FS shell with Haiku FS interface.
Doesn't do anything ATM, but already provides the required system
interface (VFS, caches, POSIX functions).


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@20859 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96