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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: nash@mcs.com
Subject: Re: pthread_cond_timedwait returning wrong error?
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com
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> > What does the POSIX spec say about the return value of
> > pthread_cond_timedwait()?
>
> The spec says that the error code is returned from the function
> directly, and not via errno.  Unfortunately our threads library
> appears to return -1 and set errno instead.
>
> Alex

Shall I send a PR against our threads library?  Or do we
care that our threads library isn't totally POSIX compliant?

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org