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author | Tom Lee <github@tomlee.co> | 2015-11-18 00:04:54 -0800 |
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committer | Tom Lee <github@tomlee.co> | 2015-11-18 00:28:10 -0800 |
commit | bb1747b1bf92431e5c5e9699824d2ef52f863f45 (patch) | |
tree | 337c54763f6166f0868ceaaa32dcd1c5f7948daa /examples/example.c | |
parent | db1c46dac7f0c54310e05a682cc444b7ae287dcf (diff) |
Fix strerror_r on some esoteric platforms
Defining _XOPEN_SOURCE=1 causes strange behavior on Debian kfreebsd
archs (i.e. GNU userspace with FreeBSD kernel) when _GNU_SOURCE is not
defined.
Not sure I fully understand the bizarre semantics, but it seems to
use the XSI-compliant interface
(int strerror_r(int, char*, size_t)) but the GNU implementation
(char *strerror_r(int, char*, size_t)) such that strerror_r returns
32-bits of a 64-bit char * on x86_64 kfreebsd. We would expect
strerror_r to return zero when using the XSI-compliant strerror_r
implementation or a 64-bit char* when using the GNU version. Instead,
we get something in between!
Unless I'm missing something, being more explicit about what version
of _XOPEN_SOURCE we want seems to be the prudent thing to do here --
and if folks want the GNU implementation of strerror_r for some reason
they can always -D_GNU_SOURCE explicitly.
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