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To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: behavior errata
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:28:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD147FE-6B27-41BB-8C09-4F569D62F74B@chuckremes.com> (raw)

While debugging an issue where a child process’s errno was getting clobbered, discovered that musl was doing the clobbering in a call to strftime (that did NOT fail).

I understand the contract of libc calls is that errno can be clobbered at any time. However, it’s a behavior difference between musl and other libc’s that I have tested against. 

Here’s the repro code. 

https://gist.github.com/chuckremes/698b0ee5d1279374cb1ef3add82a6f18

I had a nice chat with some folks on IRC about this. They indicated that it might get “fixed” just to be nice but there is no requirement to do so. Someone even made the (evil but funny) suggestion that musl should clobber errno between every non-failing call just to see how much code in the wild would explode. Please don’t. :)

Thanks for your attention.

             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-11 23:28 UTC|newest]

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2017-02-11 23:28 lists [this message]
2017-02-12  0:02 ` Rich Felker

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