On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 05:20:47 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > So adding a subsection to the setlocale(3) manual, containing lists > of functions that are likely to break when you call setlocale(3) > with bad arguments on non-OpenBSD systems, might make sense. > Even if we can't guarantee completeness of these lists, they will > give programmers a better idea about the approximate scopes and sizes > of the traps. > > Once we have that, very short pointers in individual pages become > sufficient: one short sentence including .Xr setlocale 3 below > CAVEATS. Less bloat everywhere, better overview in the one critical > place. > > Does that make sense?
Sure, that would be similar to how we list signal safe functions in sigaction(2). - todd
