The open() system call in f8 really broken...

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:19 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:26:32PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > In this case you are not calling open(1), but some function pointer.
> > And therefore it is undesirable to let it be expanded as function-like
> > macro (which POSIX allows).
> > The right fix is to use one of:
> 
> Gak... 
> 
> Can we go back to C as used in the real world please

Out of interest, why isn't it sufficient to just make _compilation_ fail
for offending programs. Why do we have to do it at runtime?

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dwmw2