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Re: stime.c forcing errno
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: stime.c forcing errno |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Feb 2004 08:54:59 +1000 |
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address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
> But for mktime/strptime, test for failure afterwards and
> set errno in that case. Setting it beforehand may not help; since
> these functions are not documented to have any particular effect on
> errno, they might have any effect at all - such as replacing our
> EINVAL with something nonsensical.
I guess it's a possibility. I'll set it afterwards.
> It would also be ok to test afterwards for localtime/gmtime as well.
> POSIX says they should set errno, but the C standard doesn't, so that
> might be a good idea.
Ok, then I'll go with what I made.