From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14069 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2005 18:13:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 14060 invoked by uid 48); 22 Nov 2005 18:13:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20051122181312.14059.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "drepper at redhat dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20051119151517.1890.stefan.puiu@gmail.com> References: <20051119151517.1890.stefan.puiu@gmail.com> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug libc/1890] strerror() unnecessarily non thread-safe X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00108.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com 2005-11-22 18:13 ------- strerror_r is the POSIX function to use. Everything else is incompatible in multi-threaded environment. Additionally, the extra info provided by strerror for unknown errors is crucial in some situations, it is completely unacceptable to return a generic string. There will be no change. -- What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1890 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.