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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace strerror() usage with threadsafe "%m" format
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:08:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222700903.2334.0.camel@lgn.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E0EDCC.5050609@tuffmail.co.uk>

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


      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-29 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 15:01 [PATCH] replace strerror() usage with threadsafe "%m" format string Alan Jenkins
2008-09-29 15:08 ` Kay Sievers [this message]

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