Bug#81059: fstat misbehaviour: errno set inappropriately

[Andreas Schwab]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

|> Seems errno wasn't getting reset if a program called fxstat which tried to
|> call fstat64 and got ENOSYS.

This is not a bug.  The value of errno is only defined after a failed call
to a function for which the use of errno is documented.  Only a few
functions are required to not touch errno if returning successfully.

Andreas.

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