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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2000 02:25:21 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        "Bohne, Peter" <Peter.Bohne@hboc.com>
Cc:        FengYue <fengyue@bluerose.windmoon.nu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: libc_r/_read(), should the errno be reset to 0?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006240223260.6650-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <35BEC7ED0A15D21199F000805F6F6D6A01CB00E2@bldexc01ntms.clinicom.com>

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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Bohne, Peter wrote:

> Anytime you make a call that can potentially set errno, and you are planning
> to *check* errno afterwards, you have to set errno to 0 yourself.  Once a

...but you would only be checking errno if the call failed and if the call
failed then it will have set errno.

Andrew



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