regression with jexec?

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 15:12:51 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:50:15AM -0600, Jamie Gritton wrote:
> All true - and I'll add the check you mention to my patch.
> 
> But what about the malloc case?  Is it equally valid to say that errno
> should not be set when no error occurred?  Or are non-syscall libc
> functions generally given free reign to overwrite errno in non-error
> situations?

Yes, they have a blanket to override errno when no error is returned to
the caller. Malloc is good example.

Errno is defined only after error.
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