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Re: [gpsd-dev] The attempt to use VTIME has been removed
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] The attempt to use VTIME has been removed |
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Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:58:17 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
> Along the way I noticed the ppsthread uses strerror() a lot, but that is
> not thread safe. No reports of that causing an issue, but should
> eentually be fixed. strerror_r() is not a portable replacement.
>
> Any ideas on a thread safe and portable replacement to strerror()?
According to strerror(3), glibc provides a POSIX strerror_r() if you set
the right feature macros. I'd say do that.
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