Re: asprintf() issue

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 12 May 2015 20:11, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 12 May 2015 at 18:29, Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On 05/12/2015 05:00 PM, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >>
> >>>   https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Dynamic-Output.html
> >>>
> >>> That link clearly says nothing about *strp on failure.
> >>
> >> To me, this implies the original value is preserved.
> 
> IMO, on this point, "silence" is not a specification; a statement is a
> specification.
> 
> >> We can add this to
> >> the documentation if that makes everyone happy.
> >
> > Frankly I don't see how saying nothing implies anything, but I'm happy
> > to accept your interpretation :)
> >
> > Please add a sentence to that effect, thanks.
> >
> > Michael, is that sufficient for you?
> 
> It's not a question of what suffices for me. I don't think the glibc
> folk normally do specification by fiat, and I assume that such a
> change to the glibc manual, which implies a certain tightening of the
> spec, will at least need to go through some review process.

the review is consensus on the mailing list from the developer community
-mike

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