From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 19 17:11:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06470 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06453 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-130.camalott.com [208.229.74.130] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22369; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:07:24 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10772; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:07:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:07:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806200007.TAA10772@detlev.UUCP> To: joelh@gnu.org CC: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, imp@village.org, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199806190401.XAA07310@detlev.UUCP> (message from Joel Ray Holveck on Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:01:30 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <22587.199806172313@cockburn.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <199806190401.XAA07310@detlev.UUCP> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You are technically correct-- but this is not relevant to Jordan's > issue, because of the distinction between system calls and library > routines. You quoted the intro to system calls. In Jordan's example, > there was an error in a system call (specifically, > open("/etc/malloc.conf",...))-- but it is handled by the printf() > library routine. s/Jordan/Terry/g All due apologies to Jordan and Terry. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message