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Issue of the Standard # S0140

Brief

Lack of details in requirements to the confstr() function.

Detailed Description

Specification of confstr() does not describe function’s behavior when ‘len’ is not 0 and ‘buf’ is a null pointer.
Nevertheless, the cases

• len != 0 && buf != NULL;
• len == 0 && buf == NULL;
• len == 0 && buf != NULL

are described in the Standard.

Problem location(s) in the standard

The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition (SUS 3.0), System Interfaces, description of function <nobr>confstr()</nobr>.

Accepted

POSIX aardvark,
Request Number 179

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