sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue Feb 26 14:51:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:08:54AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:37:35PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >The problem should _not_ be endemic in the pthreads code, as 
>> I rewrote 
>> >nearly all the pthread* functions from the P1003.1 draft spec.
>> 
>> % grep 'return E' thread.cc
>
>*Sigh*. That just shows that that is what the code is meant to do.

In other words, RTFM, cgf.  When you think about it, it would make zero
sense for functions which dealt with threads to set errno.

Sorry about that.  I REALLY should have known better on multiple counts.

(hangs head in shame)
cgf

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