commit bb59d2eb34b4f9d15688c22d5fa6822f006fc096
Author: sin <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Dec 22 11:22:00 2014 +0000

    ls: No need to set errno to zero
    
    Consider the following code:
    
    pw = getpwuid(uid);
    if (!pw) {
        if (errno)
                ...
        else
                ...
    }
    
    If the entry was not found then as per POSIX errno is not set
    because that is not considered to be a failing condition.  errno
    is only set if an internal error occurred.
    
    If errno happened to be non-zero before the getpwuid() call
    because of a previous error then we'll report a bogus error.
    
    In this case, we have to set errno to zero before the call to
    getpwuid().
    
    However in ls(1) we only really care if the password entry was found
    and we do not report any errors so setting errno to 0 is not necessary.

diff --git a/ls.c b/ls.c
index c864295..8862b87 100644
--- a/ls.c
+++ b/ls.c
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 /* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
 #include <dirent.h>
-#include <errno.h>
 #include <grp.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
@@ -273,14 +272,12 @@ output(Entry *ent)
        if (ent->mode & S_ISGID) mode[6] = (mode[6] == 'x') ? 's' : 'S';
        if (ent->mode & S_ISVTX) mode[9] = (mode[9] == 'x') ? 't' : 'T';
 
-       errno = 0;
        pw = getpwuid(ent->uid);
        if (pw)
                snprintf(pwname, sizeof(pwname), "%s", pw->pw_name);
        else
                snprintf(pwname, sizeof(pwname), "%d", ent->uid);
 
-       errno = 0;
        gr = getgrgid(ent->gid);
        if (gr)
                snprintf(grname, sizeof(grname), "%s", gr->gr_name);

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