Re: pthread_setname_np API is bad

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 04:00:02PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 09.08.2019 15:32, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > My worry is that someone will call pthread_setname_np() with a
> >  "%thread%s" name argument and get a core dump on a NetBSD system since
> > the string will be interpreted as a format (where in other OS's it will
> > be taken literally and work.
> > 
> 
> This will be caught by a compiler with __printflike() attribute.

So in response to an incompatible API complaint, we change it to another
incompatible API?

Martin