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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:55:32 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:30:21 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199806162355.QAA06852@usr02.primenet.com> Terry Lambert writes:
: If "fred" exists in the current directory, you would expect that errno
: would not have been modified, and the output will be:

No.  When a system call returns success, the value of errno is
undefined.

Warner

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