From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 21:11:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736e5t98b.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6beaf25f-1369-3e77-fd54-fdb5a1e63707@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Sat, 30 Nov 2019 20:13:56 +0100")
On Nov 30 2019, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 30.11.19 um 19:04 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
>> writes:
>>
>>> * We now assign errno only when the call to CreateProcessW() failed.
>>
>> Meaning the global variable 'errno' is left as it was (instead of
>> getting cleared) when a system call succeeds? That I think is the
>> correct behaviour people who use the variable expect.
>
> I hope you mean people who read the code. You cannot possibly mean
> developers who expect that the run-command API keeps errno unchanged if
> the calls were successful. I'm pretty sure they do not provide such a
> guarantee.
POSIX guarantees that no library function sets errno to zero.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-30 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-29 21:44 [PATCH 0/1] Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-11-29 21:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritance Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-11-29 23:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-11-30 22:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-30 22:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-11-30 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-11-30 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritance Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-11-30 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mingw: translate ERROR_SUCCESS to errno = 0 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-11-30 18:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles Junio C Hamano
2019-11-30 19:13 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-11-30 20:11 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-11-30 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-30 20:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-30 21:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-30 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-01 6:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-01 9:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-02 6:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-02 9:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-30 19:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-11-30 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-02 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-02 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritance Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-02 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mingw: translate ERROR_SUCCESS to errno = 0 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-02 17:35 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] Brown-bag fix on top of js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles Johannes Sixt
2019-12-02 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-03 12:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
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