Shawn Walker wrote: > 2008/6/25 James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>: >> Darren J Moffat writes: >>> The behavior of HP-UX and AIX is unknown to the author of this case, >>> and since they are closed source there is no easy we to determine what >>> their implementation does. >> AIX prints an empty string, as though "" had been passed in. Our >> HP-UX box has locked up, or I'd give you that one as well. :-/ > > According to Sun's developer pages [1], HP-UX has the same behaviour.
and that page even says: "Because these practices occur so often, identifying and fixing all occurrences can be impractical." Which is why I'm filing this case. Fix the issue in the one place that causes all the pain: the Solaris libc. -- Darren J Moffat
