[Bug libc/10699] The argz create routines respond differently to empty strings

["lucien at haijen dot be" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From lucien at haijen dot be  2009-10-30 15:48 -------
Subject: Re:  The argz create routines respond differently
	to empty strings

Dear Sir

Thank you very much for making time to answer my "not really
a bug" report.
I fully agree with your justification for not modifying an
existing function. In the mean time I have written my own
version under a different name, which proved to be easy, plus
a whole set of other related functions that I now must test.

Again, many thanks from a retired but still busy C programmer.

Yours truly

L. Haijen
Antwerp, Belgium



On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 23:52 +0000, drepper at redhat dot com wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2009-10-29 23:52 -------
> The function is as it is.  If I would have known about this nuance back when I
> wrote this function I most likely would have implemented as you expect it.  But
> today it's too late.  There is code out there using thing function and those
> programs might expect exactly the current behavior.  I cannot justify breaking
> those programs.
> 



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