On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:01 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote: > strerror() is not threadsafe. It uses a buffer to build messages of the form > "Unknown error 387689". > > syslog() provides a %m format which is equivalent to strerror(errno). > As a GNU extension, this is also accepted by printf and friends. > At least in the current implementation, it is correctly threadsafe. Great! Applied. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html