>>>>> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:26:15 -0400,
      christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) said:

> The only thing it will be missing is floating point formats and this
> can be noted in the man page.

It's not only thing, I guess the locale stuff should be avoided too.

And are you really sure that there isn't another issue which prevents
it from async-signal-safe?
At least I only briefly looked at the code (only few minutes).
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