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    tools lib traceevent: Separate out tep_strerror() for strerror_r() issues · bbbab191
    Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
    While working on having PowerTop use libtracevent as a shared object
    library, Tzvetomir hit "str_error_r not defined". This was added by commit
    c3cec9e6
    
     ("tools lib traceevent: Use str_error_r()") because
    strerror_r() has two definitions, where one is GNU specific, and the other
    is XSI complient. The strerror_r() is in a wrapper str_error_r() to keep the
    code from having to worry about which compiler is being used.
    
    The problem is that str_error_r() is external to libtraceevent, and not part
    of the library. If it is used as a shared object then the tools using it
    will need to define that function. I do not want that function defined in
    libtraceevent itself, as it is out of scope for that library.
    
    As there's only a single instance of this call, and its in the traceevent
    library's own tep_strerror() function, we can copy what was done in perf,
    and create yet another external file that undefs _GNU_SOURCE to use the more
    portable version of the function. We don't need to worry about the errors
    that strerror_r() returns. If the buffer isn't big enough, we simply
    truncate it.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarTzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
    Cc: linux trace devel <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005121816.484e654f@gandalf.local.home
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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