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Re: Why put this patch?
- To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: Why put this patch?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 1998 14:17:10 -0800
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library)
- References: <m0zgcCf-0000V2C@sea.lucon.org>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> Why put in this patch? If you take a look at sysdeps/generic/_strerror.c,
> you will see this patch is bogus since strerror_r returns the message,
> which is not necessarily in the buffer passed to strerror_r.
You're right, I haven't thought about this. It'll be changed and the
DU eople have to fix it themself.
Thanks,
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