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Re: [PATCH] Save/restore h_errno in getaddrinfo()
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at google dot com>
- Cc: "libc-alpha\@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:47:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Save/restore h_errno in getaddrinfo()
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- References: <CA+5-Q5JfNkeMKFZJQfnoGkfX4c1P8nYwmnrmOooTJKdr6_QJ_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Stan Shebs <stanshebs@google.com> writes:
> It turns out that subroutines of getaddrinfo() set h_errno to negative
> values, and higher-level code such as gaih_inet tests it, but there is
> nobody to reset it, so a negative value persists and then causes later
> getaddrinfo calls to report an error even though everything works
> fine.
Who is looking at h_errno when there is no error? That must be fixed.
Andreas.
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