elm 2.5.3 and glibc 2.1.93
Jakub Jelinek
jakub@redhat.com
Fri Sep 22 08:30:00 GMT 2000
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:31:41AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:13:46AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > |>
> > |> It looks like elm 2.5.3 may check errno even when fcntl returns 0.
> >
> > This is broken. The value of errno is only defined if the syscall failed.
> >
>
> Elm may be broken. But it is no excuse for glibc to mess with errno.
Why should glibc work around bugs in broken packages?
Jakub
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