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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.