elm 2.5.3 and glibc 2.1.93
H . J . Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Sat Sep 23 09:45:00 GMT 2000
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 06:37:18PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 08:45:19 -0700
> From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
>
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 03:19:33PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > The Austin draft clearly states that (2.3 Error Numbers):
> >
> > The value of errno should only be examined when it is indicated to
> > be valid by a function's return value.
> >
> > I assume that this is equivalent to what the current POSIX standard
> > says.
> >
> > Since fcntl is not an ISO C function, its current behaviour is
> > perfectly fine, and elm isn't a POSIX conforming application and
> > should be fixed.
> >
Please remember many ISO C functions in glibc may call fcntl (). What
do you want to do with them?
H.J.
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