asprintf() issue

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Mike,

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.

Thanks,

Michael


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