GOTO Masanori writes: > Neil Spring wrote: >> 2.2.5-14.3 still has the sys/syslog.h SYSLOG_NAMES bug. >> >> it'd be great if someone can apply: >> >> - char *c_name; >> + const char *c_name; >> >> or report it upstream. >> >> I realize there are bigger problems to deal with; thanks for >> your hard work. > > This report and proposed patch was rejected by upstream. Upstream > explained that if we fix with this kind of patch for removing > -Wwrite-strings warnings, some user programs (which don't use const > char) start compilation warnings.
It is never safe to write to a string literal so there is no advantage to them in treating them as non-const. I think those programs should be fixed instead of imposing this bug on correct programs. > SYSLOG_NAMES is used for obsolete purpose, Please can you say what we should use instead? > and it's not well used these days, so their argument seems one of > accountable opinion for me. Well, I think there're various > opinions, so you could discuss with it to upstream. > > I close this bug. ttfn/rjk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
