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