Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 05:50:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Oznobihin Konstantin <bork@asterix.rsu.ru> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/55370: [patch] uuid_compare function (uuid(3)) incorrectly compares node fields. Message-ID: <200308081250.h78CoNEP035421@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR standards/55370; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Oznobihin Konstantin <bork@asterix.rsu.ru>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: standards/55370: [patch] uuid_compare function (uuid(3))
incorrectly compares node fields.
Date: 08 Aug 2003 12:41:54 +0000
>return (memcmp(a->node, b->node, _UUID_NODE_LEN));
Sorry, this patch isn't sufficient, because memcmp returns the
difference between the first two differing bytes. Here is complete
patch:
--- uuid_compare.patch_2 begins here ---
--- uuid_compare.c Fri Aug 8 16:18:26 2003
+++ /usr/src/lib/libc/uuid/uuid_compare.c Wed Oct 30 06:51:00 2002
@@ -72,8 +72,5 @@
res = (int)a->clock_seq_low - (int)b->clock_seq_low;
if (res)
return ((res < 0) ? -1 : 1);
- res = memcmp(a->node, b->node, _UUID_NODE_LEN);
- if (res)
- return ((res < 0) ? -1 : 1);
- return res;
+ return (memcmp(a->node, b->node, sizeof(uuid_t)));
}
--- uuid_compare.patch_2 ends here ---
--
Konstantin Oznobihin <bork@rsu.ru>
System Programmer
Computer Center of Rostov State University.
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