From owner-freebsd-standards Thu Nov 29 20:54:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8033537B405 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-blue.research.att.com (H-135-207-30-102.research.att.com [135.207.30.102]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fAU4ssG20580 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:54:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fenner@research.att.com) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-blue.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B2A4CE40; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:54:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA08134; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:54:47 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id UAA06333; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:54:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111300454.UAA06333@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: wes@softweyr.com Subject: Re: strerror_r() implementation Cc: mike@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org References: <20011125014216.A84711@espresso.q9media.com> <3C00A43B.9929E9C7@softweyr.com> <200111281854.KAA13574@windsor.research.att.com> <3C05BE3A.1DF1A539@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:54:46 -0800 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2j/makemail 2.9b Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Ah, I see the confusion. The size of ebuf in strerror doesn't need to >be big enough to hold messages from sys_errlist, it only needs to be >large enough to hold "Unknown error: " plus the length of a 64-bit >number in ascii. Right. 40 was enough for this in rev 1.4; I dunno why it has to be 55 now. I don't feel particularly strongly about the details of this, though. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message