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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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