Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: CVS update [cvs1-11-x-branch]: /ccvs/src/

[Derek Robert Price]

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Bruno Haible wrote:

>Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>>>I notice that the C89 spec doesn't mention
>>>fflush setting errno (though the fflush in my version of glibc does
>>>appear to do this).  Is this what worries you?
>>
>>POSIX says fflush sets errno.  I'm worried about implementations that
>>don't conform (or perhaps conform to an older standard?).
>
>
>In particular the Woe32 stdio in MSVCRT does not usually set errno upon
>failure. I.e. it implements the C89 spec, not the POSIX spec.


Now, that could cause problems.  I'd have to implement the entire
STDIO implementation using write and handling my own buffers to work
around that.  S'pose I could probably snag most of the implementation
from glibc...

Cheers,

Derek

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