From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Network error strings
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:48:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150112054847.GI4574@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B35766.4030902@nicta.com.au>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 04:11:02PM +1100, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the file src/network/gai_strerror.c all error messages are terminated with an explicit NUL byte,
> except the last that has a NUL byte preceding it. Is this correct? I don't have a deep understanding
> of this code, so apologies if this is intentional. It just jumped out at me today as unusual.
Yes, it's intentional and it's simply how the advance/stop logic
works in the tiny loop in the actual code.
Rich
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