Re: ttyname_r returning EINVAL

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:13:19 +0200, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> As explained as 4) in this e-mail:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-08/msg00027.html
> 
> it seems like the ttyname_r function returns EINVAL when the provided
> buffer is too small.
> 
> This doesn't seem consistent with the specifcation at:
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ttyname.html
> 
> Instead, it seems this should be ERANGE?
> 
> [ERANGE]
>     The value of namesize is smaller than the length of the string to be
>     returned including the terminating null character.

Thanks; finally fixed (glibc BZ #12340).


Grüße,
 Thomas

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