Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:08:27 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Bug in lstat() - wrong arguments to FSEXT
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Richard Dawe wrote:

> There appears to be a bug in lstat() - see line 910 of
> src/libc/posix/sys/stat/lstat.c:
> 
>    if (__FSEXT_call_open_handlers(__FSEXT_stat, &ret, &real_path))
>      return ret;
> 
> __FSEXT_call_open_handlers() should be called with the third arg as a
> va_list, not a pointer like this.

I think this is a result of replacing `path' with `real_path' when 
symlink support was added to `stat': the former was on the stack, since 
it's the argument of `stat' (now `lstat'), and so passing a pointer to 
it does TRT, evebn though it is not declared as a va_list.

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