0.8.35 compile error

Boris Dolgov boris at dolgov.name
Tue Apr 6 16:38:09 MSD 2010


2010/4/6 Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru>:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:56:33PM +0400, Борис Долгов wrote:
>> 2010/4/6 Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru>:
>> > Now this warning will always be issued on Linux: nginx has to use
>> > sys_errlist[]/sys_nerr because both strerror() and strerror_r() are not
>> > signal safe.
>> Do you think if it is a good idea to use deprecated elements in nginx?
>> Maybe, it is better to generate ngx_sys_errlist on start/compilation and use it?
>
> I think it's a good idea to fix strerror_r() in glibc before to deprecate
> sys_errlist[]/sys_nerr, because strerror_r() is not 100% replacement of
> sys_errlist[]. Or not to show text error messages in signal handlers
> at all as nginx does on Solaris, since Solaris has no sys_errlist[].
> BTW, FreeBSD does not the warning.
FreeBSD man says, that sys_errlist is deprecated.
Linux man says, that new errnos may not have been added to sys_errlist.

-- 
Boris Dolgov.



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