From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ptsname_r
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111108055623.GB11449@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB843B4.4030605@redhat.com>
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 01:46:44PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 11/07/2011 01:45 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 11/07/2011 12:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:14:01PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>> Since ptsname() is not thread-safe on all platforms, it would be nice if
>>>> cygwin could also export ptsname_r() to match glibc.
>>>>
>>>> If no one beats me to it, I'll try and submit patches this week.
>>>
>>> I'll do it. I've been in this code recently so it's fresh in my mind.
>>
>> Thanks. Also, even with your patches of today, ptsname() is still not
>> thread-safe; should we be sticking that in a thread-local buffer rather
>> than in static storage, similar to how other functions like strerror()
>> are thread-safe?
>
>Also, should we have an efault handler in syscalls.cc ptsname_r(),
>similar to ttyname_r(), so as to gracefully reject invalid buffers
>rather than faulting?
I actually carefully followed exactly what was described in the Linux
man page. If you pass an invalid pointer to ptsname_r on Linux it seg
faults.
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-08 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 19:14 ptsname_r Eric Blake
2011-11-07 19:35 ` ptsname_r Christopher Faylor
2011-11-07 20:46 ` ptsname_r Eric Blake
2011-11-07 20:46 ` ptsname_r Eric Blake
2011-11-08 5:56 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2011-11-08 5:53 ` ptsname_r Christopher Faylor
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