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Date:      Fri, 12 May 2006 08:52:17 +0200
From:      joerg@britannica.bec.de
To:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen syslog.c
Message-ID:  <20060512065217.GA1597@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060511224018.J54716@mp2.macomnet.net>
References:  <200605110910.k4B9AYK5065047@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060511224018.J54716@mp2.macomnet.net>

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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:41:37PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, 09:10-0000, David Xu wrote:
> 
> > davidxu     2006-05-11 09:10:33 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     lib/libc/gen         syslog.c
> >   Log:
> >   Save errno before calling pthread_mutex_lock because pthread_mutex_lock
> >   may change errno unexpectly.
> 
> AFAIR POSIX's pthread_* don't change errno.  Is it a bug in our
> implementation?

I agree that SUS doesn't specify any case where pthread_mutex_lock can
change errno. The major difference is that those functions return the
error directly.

Joerg



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