Bug#81059: fstat misbehaviour: errno set inappropriately
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Tue Jan 2 08:29:00 GMT 2001
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.
There is no problem in the first place. Nobody must look at errno
unless a function call signals an error. The system can do whatever
it wants. No change.
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