Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 21:10:02 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/4961: Problems with fseek and fprints Message-ID: <199711070510.VAA10415@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4961; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/4961: Problems with fseek and fprints
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 21:05:50 PST
Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> readlink("/etc/malloc.conf", ...)
Aha. Plaugher's "Standard C Library" says that the "right" way
to use errno is:
errno = 0;
foo();
if (errno) ...
so library functions shouldn't set errno if an error did not occur.
Does that mean that malloc should save errno around the readlink()?
Bill
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