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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:08:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace strerror() usage with threadsafe "%m" format
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On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:01 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> strerror() is not threadsafe.  It uses a buffer to build messages of the form
> "Unknown error 387689".
> 
> syslog() provides a %m format which is equivalent to strerror(errno).
> As a GNU extension, this is also accepted by printf and friends.
> At least in the current implementation, it is correctly threadsafe.

Great! Applied. Thanks,
Kay