Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:59:13 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Nash <nash@mcs.com> To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org Cc: nash@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: pthread_cond_timedwait returning wrong error? Message-ID: <199711242359.RAA00771@zen.nash.org> In-Reply-To: <199711242341.RAA26968@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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On 24 Nov, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: >> > 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? I'm going to try and clean up the return values the next chance I get (which is probably this weekend). Feel free to submit a PR if you wish, but I wouldn't bother including diffs -- it'll be as much work to verify the diffs as to actually do the work :) Alex
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