On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Steve M. Robbins <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.23-1 > Severity: normal > > Manpage reports a return type of "char*", but string.h from libc6-dev > (eglibc 2.10.2-2) uses "const char*".
Upstream maintainer here... POSIX/SUS says that the return type is "char *". I'm reluctant to make any change that makes a tighter specification than POSIX. But, reading the glibc headers, the situation isn't 100% clear to me. Can you quote the lines you think indicate that the return type is "const char *" (bearing in mind that there are varios conditionals that select among several declarations of strchr())? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
