From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 20 12:21:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25678 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (root@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25668 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12120; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:13:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd025741; Fri Jun 19 14:53:14 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA23766; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:52:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806192152.OAA23766@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:52:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, fenner@parc.xerox.com, peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806192112.OAA16187@mango.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Jun 19, 98 02:12:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > However, normal library > functions are explicitly allowed to modify errno even if no error > occurs. Allowed to. Should they, however? I think "no". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message