On Monday 17 April 2006 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Why is errno being set to 0?
The C APIs don't promise to clear errno on input; you have to do that yourself. > 2. Why is errno's value then tested to see if it's not zero? > > Looks like this have been that way since December 1999 when Fred added it. Looks like a bug to me. It should be set just before confstr() is called. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com