Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:11:37 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org Subject: Re: strerror_r() implementation Message-ID: <3C0882A9.EF07073@softweyr.com> References: <20011125014216.A84711@espresso.q9media.com> <3C00A43B.9929E9C7@softweyr.com> <200111281854.KAA13574@windsor.research.att.com> <3C05BE3A.1DF1A539@softweyr.com> <200111300454.UAA06333@windsor.research.att.com> <20011130001910.C23064@espresso.q9media.com>
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Mike Barcroft wrote:
>
> Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> writes:
> > >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.
>
> Room for a 128-bit number "+ slop"?
Room for the 40 characters for the number + 13 characters of message
plus a trailing null plus 1 byte in case somebody miscounted? Is
anyone here actually reading the freaking CODE?
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