Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:58:18 +0100 (BST) From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970919175745.5952D-100000@ultra> In-Reply-To: <199709191531.IAA07978@usr07.primenet.com>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > } 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... Perhaps that would encourage people to write non-portable code. -- Niall Smart Customer Engineering, IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com)
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