[PATCH] Linux: Define struct termios2 in <termios.h> under _GNU_SOURCE [BZ #10339]

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Tue Apr 16 19:59:03 AEST 2019


* hpa:

> Using symbol versioning doesn't really help much since the real
> problem is that struct termios can be passed around in userspace, and
> the interfaces between user space libraries don't have any
> versioning. However, my POC code deals with that too by only seeing
> BOTHER when necessary, so if the structure is extended garbage in the
> extra fields will be ignored unless new baud rates are in use.

That still doesn't solve the problem of changing struct offsets after a
struct field of type struct termios.

> Exporting termios2 to user space feels a bit odd at this stage as it
> would only be usable as a fallback on old glibc. Call it
> kernel_termios2 at least.

I'm not sure why we should do that?  The kernel calls it struct termios2
in its UAPI headers.  If that name is not appropriate, it should be
changed first in the UAPI headers.

Thanks,
Florian


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