cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen syslog.c

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:41:37PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, 09:10-0000, David Xu wrote:
> 
> > davidxu     2006-05-11 09:10:33 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     lib/libc/gen         syslog.c
> >   Log:
> >   Save errno before calling pthread_mutex_lock because pthread_mutex_lock
> >   may change errno unexpectly.
> 
> AFAIR POSIX's pthread_* don't change errno.  Is it a bug in our
> implementation?

I agree that SUS doesn't specify any case where pthread_mutex_lock can
change errno. The major difference is that those functions return the
error directly.

Joerg