[PATCH] Ensure mktime sets errno on error (bug 23789)
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Thu Oct 25 20:20:00 GMT 2018
On 10/25/18 9:57 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> - To distinguish 'old' vs proper errno from __tz_set(), we would need
> it to return e.g. an int equal to 0 for success and -1 for failure,
> so that mktime() could detect __tz_set() failure and return -1 while
> preserving errno.
This sounds like the way to go. The other approach that you mentioned
(saving and restoring errno a couple of times) would be more
error-prone, particularly in non-glibc environments (remember, this code
is shared with Gnulib).
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