id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
5377,Use strerror_s to resolve error messages on Windows when possible,Greg Wiley <a507@…>,Beman Dawes,"In error_code.cpp, conditional macros choose the system call used to resolve error code values to strings (~line 81). The inline documentation mentions that strerror_r is used to provide thread-safety on platforms that expose that call.

However, for Windows, the strerror call is always used, which is not thread-safe.

Since VS2005, the Windows API has provided strerror_s, a thread-safe alternative to strerror that is similar to strerror_r.

If possible, the strerror_s call should be used on Windows platforms that provide it.

I am not an expert on the Boost way to select on Windows API versions internally so I hesitate to propose a patch but the form would be similar to that used for the strerror_r calls in that same area of the code.
",Feature Requests,new,To Be Determined,system,Boost 1.46.0,Problem,,strerror strerror_s error_code error system,