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Re: provide __xpg_strerror_r
On Feb 10 10:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 9 21:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:20:59PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> > >+/* Newlib's <string.h> provides declarations for two strerror_r
> > >+ variants, according to preprocessor feature macros. It does the
> > >+ right thing for GNU strerror_r, but its __xpg_strerror_r mishandles
> > >+ a case of EINVAL when coupled with our strerror() override.*/
> > > #if 0
> >
> > Can't we get rid of this now?
>
> I agree. We should simply implement strerror_r by ourselves, even if
> it's identical to newlib's strerror_r. In the long run it's less
> puzzeling to have all the strerror variants in one place.
Oh, and: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2011-q1/msg00031.html
Thanks,
Corinna
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