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Re: Confusing "Success" error message
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Andries E. Brouwer |
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Re: Confusing "Success" error message |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Nov 2019 15:03:21 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 09:55:48AM +0100, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> On 11/8/19 12:03 AM, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
> > The hope is probably that errno is the errno from gethttp.
> > But does time() preserve errno?
> > And does datetime_str() preserve errno?
> > It calls fmttime() which calls localtime() and strftime().
>
> Libc functions only touch errno if there *is* an error
Libc functions are free to call other functions internally,
and such internal calls may fail where the outer level call
does not fail. So even if a libc function does not return
an error, errno can have changed.
If it is needed later, errno should be saved immediately after a
failing system call.
In this particular case I see
% man localtime
ERRORS
EOVERFLOW
The result cannot be represented.
so under unusual circumstances datetime_str() can change errno.
Andries
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- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Darshit Shah, 2019/11/03
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Tim Rühsen, 2019/11/07
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/07
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Tim Rühsen, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Francesco Turco, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Francesco Turco, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message,
Andries E. Brouwer <=
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Tim Rühsen, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/08