Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] New sigaltstack backend for coroutine

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 March 2012 22:44, Alex Barcelo <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 23:17, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Did you see the comment I added to an earlier thread regarding
>> FORTIFY_SOURCE?
>
> Sorry about that! Yes, I got the comment mixed between some other
> threads, and now I was checking and didn't remember it.
>
> About the FORTIFY_SOURCE... I don't know very well what does that mean
> and what it does, I kept it from the ucontext code without thinking a
> lot (irresponsibly? yes, maybe a bit).

Ha. I should have read your actual patch, sorry :-)
That bit of code does correctly disable a glibc sanity check which
would otherwise cause this code to fail, so your patch is OK on this
point.

-- PMM