[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] util-linux-native: fix qsort_r for CentOS 5.10

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 12:41 +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
> The more I look at it the more I don't like this patch. It's probably
> a very rarely used code path but it could blow up if it's called. C
> provides no guarantees that calling a 3-argument function with only 2
> arguments will work. Depending on calling convention it could easily
> result in stack corruption on some platforms.
> 
> I'd suggest we try reverting the relevant bits of the upstream change
> from qsort to
> qsort_r: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=c69bbca9c1f6645097bd20fe3a21f5a99a2a0698
> 
> I think it should just be the first 3 patch hunks in that commit.

It seems vanishingly unlikely that anybody is seriously going to try to
use fdisk from util-linux-native to manipulate Sun partition tables and,
that being the case, it's presumably going to be quite hard to test any
such change.  Maybe we should just turn off support for these fringe
partition table types altogether.

p.