On 23/01/17 21:26, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> OmegaPhil:
>> I understand what you are saying from the manpage, however it does seem
>> reasonable to say that any unusual errno state means a failure has
>> occurred somewhere (ignoring the fact that released libau currently sets
>> EBADF even when a failure has not happened).
>>
>> If I report this to git, I bet they'll just say that libau shouldn't
>> have set errno without an actual failure to report :/
> 
> As you understood my point, I can understand yours. Also I understand
> that people never expect errno is set when they pass a valid DIR*.
> Ok, I will fix libau.
> 
> 
> J. R. Okajima


Cheers - just out of interest, do you know how to set a watchpoint  on
errno in gdb? That wouldve saved a lot of time. It seems gdb is only
capable of using errno in an expression when it suits it...

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