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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 -mike
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