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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:31:34 +0000 (GMT)
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> } 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.

Perhaps this should be done by the trampoline code on the user's
behalf...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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