Why put this patch?

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Thu Nov 19 14:20:00 GMT 1998


hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:

> Why put in this patch? If you take a look at sysdeps/generic/_strerror.c,
> you will see this patch is bogus since strerror_r returns the message,
> which is not necessarily in the buffer passed to strerror_r.

You're right, I haven't thought about this.  It'll be changed and the
DU eople have to fix it themself.

Thanks,

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