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* [Bug libc/12204] New: glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
@ 2010-11-09 23:14 bruno at clisp dot org
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From: bruno at clisp dot org @ 2010-11-09 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Summary: glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
Product: glibc
Version: 2.8
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: libc
AssignedTo: drepper.fsp@gmail.com
ReportedBy: bruno@clisp.org
glibc has two strerror_r functions, declared in <string.h> depending on
feature macros. But none of them is POSIX compliant.
The one which is in effect when _GNU_SOURCE=1 has the declaration
char *strerror_r (int, char *, size_t). It has a different return type
and therefore a different calling convention than the POSIX function.
Test case:
=================================================
#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char buf[100];
char *s = strerror_r (-2, buf, sizeof (buf));
printf ("result: %s\n", s);
return 0;
}
=================================================
The one which is in effect when _GNU_SOURCE is undefined and
_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L has the declaration
int strerror_r (int, char *, size_t), which is POSIX compatible,
but it has a different return value convention in case of failure.
POSIX:2001 and POSIX:2008 say that in case of failure the strerror_r
function should return "an error number"; this is the same wording
as for pthread_create, pthread_mutex_lock, etc. However, the glibc
function returns -1 and sets errno to the error number instead.
Test case:
========================================================================
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char buf[100] = "______";
int r;
r = strerror_r (-2, buf, sizeof (buf));
if (r == 0)
printf ("result: success %s\n", buf);
else if (r > 0)
printf ("result: failure %d %s\n", r, buf);
else
printf ("result: non-POSIX failure %d %d %s\n", r, errno, buf);
r = strerror_r (EACCES, buf, 3);
if (r == 0)
printf ("result: success %s\n", buf);
else if (r > 0)
printf ("result: failure %d %s\n", r, buf);
else
printf ("result: non-POSIX failure %d %d %s\n", r, errno, buf);
return 0;
}
==========================================================================
Expected result:
result: failure 22 ______
result: failure 34 ______
Actual result:
result: non-POSIX failure -1 22 ______
result: non-POSIX failure -1 34 ______
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
2010-11-09 23:14 [Bug libc/12204] New: glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function bruno at clisp dot org
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2010-11-09 23:20 ` bruno at clisp dot org
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From: bruno at clisp dot org @ 2010-11-09 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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--- Comment #1 from Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> 2010-11-09 23:17:17 UTC ---
Created attachment 5117
--> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5117
test case
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
2010-11-09 23:14 [Bug libc/12204] New: glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function bruno at clisp dot org
2010-11-09 23:20 ` [Bug libc/12204] " bruno at clisp dot org
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From: bruno at clisp dot org @ 2010-11-09 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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--- Comment #2 from Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> 2010-11-09 23:20:25 UTC ---
The fix could either be to change the behaviour of __xpg_strerror_r
so that it returns the error number instead of assigning it to errno,
or to introduce a new function __posix_strerror_r and enable it in <string.h>
under the appropriate conditions.
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
2010-11-09 23:14 [Bug libc/12204] New: glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function bruno at clisp dot org
2010-11-09 23:20 ` [Bug libc/12204] " bruno at clisp dot org
2010-11-09 23:20 ` bruno at clisp dot org
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From: drepper.fsp at gmail dot com @ 2010-11-10 8:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |WAITING
--- Comment #3 from Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> 2010-11-10 08:14:11 UTC ---
What do other OSes do? What's the behavior on Solaris? Common practice IIRC
was at least to return -1. Might just be that the incorrect wording was copied
into the strerror_r spec.
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
2010-11-09 23:14 [Bug libc/12204] New: glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function bruno at clisp dot org
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From: schwab@linux-m68k.org @ 2010-11-10 9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
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--- Comment #4 from Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> 2010-11-10 09:10:45 UTC ---
According to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi *BSD and Solaris both return
the error number.
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
2010-11-09 23:14 [Bug libc/12204] New: glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function bruno at clisp dot org
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From: bruno at clisp dot org @ 2010-11-11 9:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|WAITING |ASSIGNED
--- Comment #5 from Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> 2010-11-11 09:36:21 UTC ---
> What do other OSes do? What's the behavior on Solaris?
Here are the results of the test program:
Solaris 10:
result: failure 22 Unknown error
result: failure 34 Unknown error
FreeBSD 6.4, OpenBSD 4.4:
result: failure 22 Unknown error: -2
result: failure 34 Pe
HP-UX 11.31:
result: failure 22 ______
result: failure 34 ______
AIX 6.1:
result: success Error -2 occurred.
result: success Pe
Tru64 5.1:
result: non-POSIX failure -1 22 Error -2 occurred.
result: success Pe
You can see that the major Unices use the POSIX compliant return value
convention. Tru64 is the only one to use the (-1,errno) return value.
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From: drepper.fsp at gmail dot com @ 2010-12-25 19:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> changed:
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Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |FIXED
--- Comment #6 from Ulrich Drepper <drepper.fsp at gmail dot com> 2010-12-25 18:57:57 UTC ---
I've changed the __xpg_strerror_r implementations.
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
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Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com> changed:
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
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dank at kegel dot com changed:
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--- Comment #7 from dank at kegel dot com 2013-02-08 19:35:04 UTC ---
See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=655
Looks like strerror_r is being retired because of the confusion.
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* [Bug libc/12204] glibc does has no POSIX compliant strerror_r function
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From: jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com @ 2014-02-16 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Jackie Rosen <jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Jackie Rosen <jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com> ---
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Andreas Schwab <schwab at sourceware dot org> changed:
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