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Re: Portability issue for error_tail().
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Portability issue for error_tail(). |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:58:48 -0700 |
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On 08/18/2011 06:11 PM, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> error (EXIT_FAILURE, EPERM, NULL);
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> nothing serious will happen on GNU/Linux with Glibc,
My kneejerk reaction is that 'error' isn't documented
to treat NULL as the empty string, and that portable programs
should not pass a NULL format to 'error', so this is not
a gnulib bug.