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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:58:18 +0100 (BST)
From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.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.

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Niall Smart
Customer Engineering,
IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com)