Re: [Xen-devel] build error: strerror() ...

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/12/06 10:08 pm, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> strerror_r() sucks. I removed it and used a pthread mutex instead.
> 
> If you  '#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600'  then glibc will provide the standards
> compliant version of strerror_r which always uses the user supplied buffer.
> Seems simpler than rolling our own code using pthreads mutexes.

My Debian build box defines only the GNU version.

It seems that strerror_r() is basically unusable unless you do a
'configure'-style compile test to set a build flag.

 -- Keir


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