Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> What about using the description that's in iconv_open(3C):
>> 
>> <para>Apply the following patch to fix a bug when trying to
>> allocate a conversion descriptor for converting byte sequences
>> between the same character encodings twice:</para>

Hmm; maybe something like:

<para>Apply the following patch to fix an assertion failure when opening
two conversion descriptors with the same tocode and fromcode parameters
(see the iconv_open man page):</para>

>From the bug, the issue is an invalid assertion test; the patch fixes
the assertion.  The code actually works; only the assertion is broken.
(This is a bit like the glibc assertion failure when the linux-gate.so.1
virtual syscall DSO was added; in that case, the only thing that was
broken was the assertion test, not the state of glibc.  Same here.)

In addition, I think "with the same tocode and fromcode parameters" is
probably enough to tell the user what's going on in the failure case.
And the manpage reference is there for a bit more info, if the user
wants to read it.

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