On Oct 26, 12:13pm, yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
-- Subject: syslog_r (Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc)

| > Module Name:	src
| > Committed By:	christos
| > Date:		Wed Oct 25 23:49:31 UTC 2006
| > 
| > Modified Files:
| > 	src/lib/libc: shlib_version
| > 	src/lib/libc/gen: Makefile.inc syslog.3 syslog.c
| > 	src/lib/libc/include: namespace.h
| > 
| > Log Message:
| > add _r functions for syslog from OpenBSD
| 
| - are you sure if it's signal-safe?
|   it seems to involve stdio and even locale stuffs...
| 
| - even if its current implementation is signal-safe,
|   i don't think it's a good idea to document syslog_r as signal-safe.

I did not make any such claim, although it appears to be. Yes, the
biggest issue is if we can guarantee that vsnprintf() is signal safe.

christos