Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 02:59:28 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@nuxi.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio mktemp.c Message-ID: <19981021025928.A21068@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199810210231.KAA14549@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 10:31:05AM %2B0800 References: <199810202134.PAA28899@harmony.village.org> <199810210231.KAA14549@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> - open(path, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_RDWR, 0600)) >= 0)
> + open(path, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_RDWR, 0600)) >= 0) {
Stylistically speaking, why do people keep insisting on not checking
error conditions properly? open(2) is documented to return "-1" on
error, not non-negative as many want to test it against.
Yes, this has caused me problems on an old 286 Xenix system.
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-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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