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From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:05:02PM +0100, boyd, rounin wrote:
> From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
> > The application is broken.  You must only check errno if you get an
> > error indication from the library call.
> 
> errno is only meaningful after a syscall error.

Wrong, counter-example: strtol().

Stefan