From: "Stefan Farfeleder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. > > I read boyd's statement as a contradiction to Jacques' one (only after > syscall error vs. after library call error).
some libc functions do mangle errno, but only after an error. in my terse statement the intention was to affirm that errno is meaningless unless an error has ocurred (a syscall being the simplest case, while random other libc calls may behave in the same way). _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
