From 1866ae945547e8ebf978b1f5760661239f2513a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:45:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update. 2004-10-19 Alfred M. Szmidt * sysdeps/generic/readonly-area.c (__readonly_str): Renamed to ... (__readonly_area): ... this. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ sysdeps/generic/readonly-area.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index f57da5f16e..5d57defef5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-10-19 Alfred M. Szmidt + + * sysdeps/generic/readonly-area.c (__readonly_str): Renamed to ... + (__readonly_area): ... this. + 2004-10-18 Jakub Jelinek * sysdeps/generic/strcpy_chk.c (__strcpy_chk): Speed up by checking diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/readonly-area.c b/sysdeps/generic/readonly-area.c index df5b96015c..4b8172f193 100644 --- a/sysdeps/generic/readonly-area.c +++ b/sysdeps/generic/readonly-area.c @@ -16,14 +16,19 @@ Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. */ +#include + /* Return 1 if the whole area PTR .. PTR+SIZE is not writable. Return -1 if it is writable. */ -#include - int -__readonly_str (const void *ptr, size_t size) +__readonly_area (const void *ptr, size_t size) { - /* The conservative answer is that all strings are writable. */ - return -1; + /* We cannot determine in general whether memory is writable or not. + This must be handled in a system-dependent manner. to not + unconditionally break code we need to return here a positive + answer. This disables this security measure but that is the + price people have to pay for using systems without a real + implementation of this interface. */ + return 1; }