RE: sys_nerr
>From mats.d.wichmann@intel.com Wed Feb 6 22:05:04 2002
>> >The behavior on a standard Linux system (glibc 2.2) is as
>> >described above on invalid errnos: "Unknown error x".
>>
>> Which is illegal according to SUSv3.
>>
>> SUSv3 requires that strerror() is thread-safe, so it cannot
>> return a modified string.
>Yeah, I was quoting from SUSv2, which says that it does not have
>to be thread-safe. There's another interface, strerror_r (defined
>in LSB) which is designed to be reentrant, so it seems to be legal
>as currently implemented. At the moment, LSB is aligned with SUSv2,
>not v3.
OOPs, it seems that I was reading too qiuickly...
SUSv3 also says _not_ reenntant.
Jörg
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