[PATCH] BROKEN_STRNDUP and BROKEN_STRNLEN and AIX

[Alexander Bokovoy]

HI,


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Heinrich Mislik <
Heinrich.Mislik at univie.ac.at> wrote:

> On 22 May 2013 at 17:39, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if either of you know more about the allegation that
> > strndup and strnlen are broken on AIX?
>
> Allthoug there is an entry in libc, documentation says:
>
> For AIX 5.3:
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/topic/com.ibm.ai
> x.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/basetrf2.htm
>
> There is no strndup or strnlen.
>
So this means our replacement should be used.


>
> For AIX 6.1:
>
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechr
> ef/doc/basetrf2/s_nav.htm
>
> there is strnlen, no strndup.
>
Our replacement for strndup should be used.


>
>
> For AIX 7.1
>
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechr
> ef/doc/basetrf2/s_nav.htm
>
> there are strndup and strnlen
>
>
> I could not reproduce the behaviour from
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097
> on any current AIX I have available (5.3, 6.1). It seems to be
> fixed by now. I still think, one should not use functions,
> that are not documented.
>
We have our own library of replacing functions.

So I think "outlawing" strnlen/strndup on AIX wouldn't be that bad.

It means Andrew's latest patch is OK.

-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy