Re: manpages-dev: please note thread safeness of %m in vfprintf(3)

["Stéphane Aulery" <saulery-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Ma Shimiao,

Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 02:20:07, Ma Shimiao a écrit :
> 
> On 03/07/2015 06:38 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> > 
> > A Debian user has applied to mention that strerror_r(3) is thread safe.
> > 
> >> Frome Martin Godisch <martin-AOktpf5JBruELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>, Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:30:30 +0200
> >>
> >> Please add a note to vfprintf(3) telling users that the %m conversion
> >> specifier is thread safe.
> 
> I'm not sure why he need a note to indicate that the %m conversion specifier 
> is thread safe.
> From our research and glibc's document, vfprintf(3) is thread safe except when users pass float formatting,
> custom formatting or single quota may cause locale dependency problem.
> And I'm going to add thread safety information of vfprintf() into printf.3.
> If there is something special about %m, we'd like to know.
> And I'm willing to add it.

I will send you answer to Martin Godisch, but I don't think there is something
special. I will wait your patch before closing this bug.

Thanks.

Regards,

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Stéphane Aulery
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