Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:40:27 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, grog@lemis.com, peter@spinner.dialix.com.au Cc: atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free Message-ID: <199709191140.VAA14216@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>} We claim to be sort of POSIX conformant. Perhaps this is enough. We
>} aren't actually POSIX conformant. All the above "safe" routines may
>} clobber the global `errno'.
>
>Which is why I save and restore errno in signal handlers.
OpenBSD has some fixes in this area. However, POSIX seems to say that
it is unnecessary ("[the functions shall be reentrant ... without
restriction]").
Bruce
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