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From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 04:08:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
       "Re: Bug in malloc/free" (Sep 19,  7:09pm)
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Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
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On Sep 19,  7:09pm, Bruce Evans wrote:
} Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
} 
} We claim to be sort of POSIX conformant.  Perhaps this is enough.  We
} aren't actually POSIX conformant.  All the above "safe" routines may
} clobber the global `errno'.

Which is why I save and restore errno in signal handlers.

			---  Truck