[PATCH 0/3] Fix wrong assumption about errno

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Dec 22 03:28:00 GMT 2017


On 12/21/2017 02:54 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> These 3 patches fixes the wrong assumption that a successful function
> does not change errno. POSIX explicitly says that applications should
> check errno only after failure (or if the function specification
> provides additional scenarios where it has a defined value).
> 
> Aurelien Jarno (3):
>   tst-realloc: do not check for errno on success [BZ #22611]
>   manual: clarify errno value on success [BZ #22615]
>   scandir: fix wrong assumption about errno [BZ #17804]
> 
>  ChangeLog             | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  dirent/scandir-tail.c |  7 +++++--
>  malloc/tst-realloc.c  |  4 ----
>  manual/errno.texi     | 12 ++++++------
>  4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 
Thank you very much for cleaning these things up.

Incremental improvements like this bring me holiday cheer :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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