Re: asprintf() issue

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 13 May 2015 13:17, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 13 May 2015 at 04:53, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 12 May 2015 20:11, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >> On 12 May 2015 at 18:29, Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >> On 05/12/2015 05:00 PM, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>   https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Dynamic-Output.html
> >> >>>
> >> >>> That link clearly says nothing about *strp on failure.
> >> >>
> >> >> To me, this implies the original value is preserved.
> >>
> >> IMO, on this point, "silence" is not a specification; a statement is a
> >> specification.
> >>
> >> >> We can add this to
> >> >> the documentation if that makes everyone happy.
> >> >
> >> > Frankly I don't see how saying nothing implies anything, but I'm happy
> >> > to accept your interpretation :)
> >> >
> >> > Please add a sentence to that effect, thanks.
> >> >
> >> > Michael, is that sufficient for you?
> >>
> >> It's not a question of what suffices for me. I don't think the glibc
> >> folk normally do specification by fiat, and I assume that such a
> >> change to the glibc manual, which implies a certain tightening of the
> >> spec, will at least need to go through some review process.
> >
> > the review is consensus on the mailing list from the developer community
> 
> Yup, that's what I expected. It's just that only one person (Florian)
> had responded so far.

because there are so many sub-topics in glibc and things to be done, a lot of us 
lurk on a thread-by-thread basis and jump in when it seems appropriate.  the 
other option would be a noisy stream of +1 e-mails ;).
-mike

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