Re: [Mingw-users] errno_t and strerror_s

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

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On 03/12/16 17:02, DAVENPORT, MARC wrote:
> I found a couple relevant pages on the web. The first discusses the
> thread safety of strerror and proposes a short unit test that quickly
> fails:
> 
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-03/msg00691.html

Thanks.  Do you mean quickly fails for you, when you compile and link
it with my tentative strerror_r() implementation?  Or just that the OP
(on the Lua list) suggested that it quickly failed on his OS-X box?

FWIW, I modified it to use win32threads, (instead of pthreads), and it
does *not* fail for me, (even after several hundred million iterations
within six concurrent threads).  Frankly, given MSDN's documented use
of _sys_nerr and _sys_errlist, and assuming an implementation based on
the obvious relationship between strerror() and these two, I can see
no mechanism whereby strerror() itself could be anything other than
thread safe, provided the content of _sys_errlist remains unchanged,
(even if a single instance is shared by multiple threads).  Why might
_sys_errlist change?  Perhaps as a result of a locale change, (but the
proposed test case doesn't perform one).  However, even if I include a
setlocale() call, requesting a switch to (say) French, or German, I get
nothing but English messages, returned by strerror() on my WinXP VM,
(maybe a quirk of my primarily English language installation -- even if
I set an alternative language via control panel, the entire UI remains
resolutely in English), and the test continues to run indefinitely,
without failure.

Looks to me as if my tentative strerror_r() implementation should be
fit for purpose, unless someone can devise a more rigorous test to
prove otherwise.

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Regards,
Keith.

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