Re: [Vala] Posix.strerror_r and immutable Vala strings

[Nor Jaidi Tuah <norjaidi tuah ubd edu bn>]

> > Strings
> > The data type for strings is string. Vala strings are UTF-8 encoded
> and *immutable*.

A convenient lie. Vala can do anything.
Personally, I wouldn't use _strip and family
unless string processing is really the bottleneck.

As for thread safety, you shouldn't be having multiple
threads doing UI stuff without mutex (converting errno
to a string is UI stuff).

Nice day
Nor Jaidi Tuah




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