From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <a050aac71182257460fe4ae9b593c700@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Error reporting (Was: [9fans] GNU Make)
Date: Tue,  8 Jun 2004 16:17:33 +0100
From: rog@vitanuova.com
In-Reply-To: <40BFCAE3.4060603@chunder.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98baf93c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

brucee:
> And rog's code has a race that has been known for at
> least 25 years.

unfortunately this was unavoidable in the situation it was being used.
rc has exactly the same race.

> As for internationalization a simple library function
> that smashes the %r message at the ":"s (observing
> quoting)

this is ok...  it just seems a pity that one has to put that unquoting
state machine where if one only put the filename at the end, a simple
strchr() would suffice.