From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 110734 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2016 13:43:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 110724 invoked by uid 89); 21 Sep 2016 13:43:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Clarify, 20524, strverscmp X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] manual: Clarify the documentation of strverscmp [BZ #20524] To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" References: <20160829202145.A2548403DC4A9@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> <44b7d954-354c-2407-3079-fd511dd1f510@redhat.com> <929dbcd3-6984-c17f-1193-2e2ac8aeaf14@gmail.com> <3147398a-fa03-af37-f0d3-230e46182b51@redhat.com> Cc: libc-alpha From: Florian Weimer Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:43:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3147398a-fa03-af37-f0d3-230e46182b51@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00370.txt.bz2 On 08/31/2016 01:56 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > Perhaps we should just say the comparison happens in an > implementation-defined manner and is only consistent within a single > process (just like strcoll). It would simplify matters and would us > allow to fix the algorithm. :) I have committed the posted version (that is, the one that describes the behavior in greater detail and stresses that it is unusual). Thanks, Florian