2008/403 [libc printf behaviour for NULL string]

[Joseph Kowalski]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>> Darren (several timezones removed),
>>
>> When you get through this tread, I need your position (as submitter) 
>> on the proposed binding of Patch.  From there, I can decide what to 
>> do with this case.
>
> Patch was on purpose because while I have no intention of backporting 
> this to Solaris 10 I see only goodness in allowing it.
>
> However I could be convinced to restrict the binding to be Minor but 
> not Major.

Please, change the release binding to Minor.  Not to be heavy handed, 
but I will immediately derail this at a Patch binding.  (For all you 
OpenSolaris folk, the only difference is not allowing this to be 
backported to Solaris 10.)

Also, since there isn't a meeting on 7/2 (and the 4th for us yanks), 
please extend th time-out to 7/9.

I can't tell people what to discuss, but there seems to be a universal 
opinion among the voting members that this is a black and white choice - 
It's the SVr4 way, or the BSD way.  I'd suggest folk restrict comments 
to the black and white issues and avoid doing any invention (in the 
forum).  - thanks -

As for myself, I want to take another shot convincing others that this 
can cause incompatible failures.  If I fail on that, I'll still probably 
derail this, but by that time, it will probably not require additional 
discussion and I'll just be writing an opinion to capture the rationale.

- jek3