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            Stefan Farfeleder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:05:02PM +0100, boyd, rounin wrote:
: > From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > > The application is broken.  You must only check errno if you get an
: > > error indication from the library call.
: > 
: > errno is only meaningful after a syscall error.
: 
: Wrong, counter-example: strtol().

errno is meaningful for syscalls after an error (the original
message).  The fact that other functions also dink with errno is not
relevant to that statement.

Warner
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