Re: getloadavg module broken

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd ask to remove these lines from the AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG macro: > - > # Make sure getloadavg.c is where it belongs, at configure-time. > test -f "$srcdir/$ac_config_libobj_dir/getloa

Re: [bug-gnulib] Handling null pointers to printf

2006-05-26 Thread Bruce Korb
Aaron Stone wrote: Crashing on null %s args puts gnulib at odds with all other open source lib's -- glibc, *BSD libc's, so on. People use gnulib to get the gnuish behavior on other platforms. Being safe about nulls is a gnuish behavior that many people appreciate. Indeed. Then, sometimes, I do

Re: [bug-gnulib] Handling null pointers to printf

2006-05-26 Thread Aaron Stone
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:55 +0100, James Youngman wrote: > On 5/24/06, Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Then the argument about the glibc behaviour and the *BSD libc behaviour is > > moot: if there's a single platform where it crashes, and if the standard > > says > > that NULL are i

Re: Changes to the W32 part of the getpass module

2006-05-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Martin Lambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I'd like to propose the following changes to the getpass module. They >>> only affect the W32 part of that module. >>> The first change updates the

Re: Changes to the W32 part of the getpass module

2006-05-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Lambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi! >> >> I'd like to propose the following changes to the getpass module. They >> only affect the W32 part of that module. >> The first change updates the test for the native W32 API. >> The second change

Re: getgrouplist

2006-05-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> It'd be great if someone would write a gnulib-style getgrouplist >> replacement function that provides a poor-man's implementation (using >> something like coreutils' existing code) for systems that lack a useful >> function by that n

Re: [bug-gnulib] Handling null pointers to printf

2006-05-26 Thread James Youngman
On 5/24/06, Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then the argument about the glibc behaviour and the *BSD libc behaviour is moot: if there's a single platform where it crashes, and if the standard says that NULL are invalid arguments, gnulib's implementation can crash as well. I would go fu

Re: Changes to the W32 part of the getpass module

2006-05-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Martin Lambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I'd like to propose the following changes to the getpass module. They > only affect the W32 part of that module. > The first change updates the test for the native W32 API. > The second change adds missing includes, thus fixing compilation > wa