Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:46:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nash@mcs.com Cc: bradley@dunn.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pthread_cond_timedwait returning wrong error? Message-ID: <199711251746.KAA02503@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199711242333.RAA00666@zen.nash.org> from "Alex Nash" at Nov 24, 97 05:33:17 pm
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> > While we are talking about threads, any comments on PR-4376?
>
> You are 100% right about the return value being incorrect.
> Unfortunately, this problem is present in many more functions than just
> pthread_join().
>
> From what I can tell by looking at an old DEC OSF/1 reference on
> pthreads, returning -1 an setting errno is the way things used to work.
> Apparently POSIX has changed that.
Given that "errno" is a global variable, this is actually a good thing.
How many times have you wished for:
errno = lseek(int fildes, off_t newoffset, int whence, off_t *oldoffset)
Or:
errno = lseek(int fildes, off_t *offset, int whence)
Instead of:
off_t
lseek(int fildes, off_t offset, int whence)
So that you didn't have to worry about the sign bit?
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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