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Re: Interest in a printf-gnu module for printf("%m")?


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Interest in a printf-gnu module for printf("%m")?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:47:07 -0800
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On 11/29/18 9:15 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Or is better to just document in doc/posix-functions/*printf*.texi that %m is not portable, and that the recommended workaround is to manually pair "%s" with strerror(errno), rather than relying on gnulib.

That sounds better for now, since no Gnulib-using code apparently needs %m. You might want to mention strerror_r too.




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