Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:07:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, imp@village.org, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... Message-ID: <199806200007.TAA10772@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199806190401.XAA07310@detlev.UUCP> (message from Joel Ray Holveck on Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:01:30 -0500 (CDT)) References: <22587.199806172313@cockburn.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <199806190401.XAA07310@detlev.UUCP>
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> 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
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