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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: segfault in strftime
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:47:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <100226094731.ZM3981@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002261645.o1QGji9R022432@news01.csr.com>

[>workers]

On Feb 26,  4:45pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: segfault in strftime
}
} Vincent Lefevre wrote:
} > Wouldn't it be better to test only errno != 0 ?
} 
} Well, given we're setting it to 0 beforehand that seems reasonable.

That's *probably* safe in this case ... but in general I don't think
so.  The standards make no guarantee about the value of errno in the
case where the library call returns "successfully" (however that may
be defined) -- that is, the implementation is allowed to set errno
to what the next upcoming error *might* be, and is not required to
then clear errno before returning success.


       reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]       ` <20100226162130.GF13766@prunille.vinc17.org>
     [not found]         ` <201002261645.o1QGji9R022432@news01.csr.com>
2010-02-26 17:47           ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2010-02-26 22:45             ` Vincent Lefevre

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