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------- Additional Comments From vda dot linux at googlemail dot com  2006-07-04 11:57 -------
Because I'm tracking down obscure bug in svn (seemingly),
and tracked it down to strerror_r not updating buffer 
and _not_ returning -1.

From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev@farside.org.uk>
Subject: Re: BUG: svn enters unkillable state, tracked down to UTF conv in locale!=C
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:53:59 +0200

> If your native_strerror() looks like that, you must have STRERROR_R_RC_INT
> defined (in APR's include/arch/unix/apr_private.h), which implies you're
> using the platform-native C library for either AIX or Tru64 (from the
> comments in the above file).
>
> I thought you were using glibc?  What OS are you using?

It _is_ glibc 2.4. Looks like glibc people switched to POSIX version
of strerror_r. See here:

http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=364

But sometimes it returns >=0, yet buffer is not modified.

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=364

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