[BusyBox] Re: init revision 1.170, 1.169

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Mon Sep 16 02:30:03 UTC 2002


On Mon Sep 16, 2002 at 12:17:23PM +0400, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
> > Either way works, though "%m" is a GNU extension, and is not
> > supported by all C libraries.
> 
> I know. But:
> busybox-0.61pre $ grep "%m" `find . -name "*.c"` | wc -l
>      26       
> 
> Require changes? :(

I just checked, and contrary to what I believed, Linux libc5 
does support '%m'.  And of course uClibc support it.  So perhaps
we should fix things the _other_ way....   :-)

$ grep "strerror" `find . -name "*.c"` | wc -l
     41
I'm sure that changing these strerror() calls to %m will reduce
the size of busybox.  So I agree with you, using '%m' is better
and should be policy.

 -Erik

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