Ping? No one wants to solve this? It's a critical issue for libposix. Eric Blake wrote: > error() is not POSIX. Maybe the thing to do is figure out what in > libposix is dragging in error(), and work on breaking that dependency. > That way, a package using libposix then makes their own decision of > whether to supplement things with error() and program_name.
I replied: > Very good point. The dependency comes from > > openat --> openat-die --> error > fdopendir > > Can you work on breaking this dependency? I mean, for example, > instead of directly calling openat_save_fail() and > openat_restore_fail(), go through a variable that contains two > function pointers, and have openat() and fdopendir() return an error code > if these function pointers are NULL. Like we do with > argp_program_version_hook > error_print_progname > obstack_alloc_failed_handler > See also > c_stack_action > install_sigpipe_die_handler
