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From: "Luka Marčetić" <paxcoder@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: cluts: Incorrect test expectations in buf module (errno)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:01:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1DCF69.4020102@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110713135124.GC16618@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On 07/13/2011 03:51 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi,
> It seems cluts' buf module is surprised that strerror_r and ttyname_r
> did not set errno to ERANGE. However these functions are not specified
> to report anything in errno. Instead they return the error code
> directly. This is an unfortunate inconsistency created in the early
> days of "reentrant" (_r) functions due to confusion over whether errno
> could be safely used in multithreaded programs. Note that some other
> functions which return error codes directly are:
>
> posix_* (posix_memalign etc.)
> pthread_*
>
> Rich

Thanks, fixed (will push changes when I hear about SA_NODEFER).
I guess when you write your own implementation of those, you get to know 
them intimately ;-)
Luka.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-13 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-13 13:51 Rich Felker
2011-07-13 17:01 ` Luka Marčetić [this message]

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