regression with jexec?
Jamie Gritton
jamie at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 26 16:19:49 UTC 2009
Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 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.
OK then, patching jexec is all that needs doing; I'll get that in.
- Jamie
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