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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Bug or misdocumented feature in pthread_setaffinity_np.3
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 11:21:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200907092107.26imngxsr3n7m4sx@function> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486f9d85-2828-2b60-990c-3499b2a89559@gmail.com>

Hello,

Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha, le lun. 07 sept. 2020 11:00:05 +0200, a ecrit:
> Or is it that those functions return an error code that corresponds to a
> valid `errno` error number?  In that case it could be documented better
> IMHO.
> 
> If that is the case, do those functions set `errno` and also return that
> same `errno` value redundantly?

All pthread functions return E* values on errors, and do not touch
errno.

Samuel

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-07  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07  9:00 Bug or misdocumented feature in pthread_setaffinity_np.3 Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-07  9:21 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2020-09-07  9:21 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-07  9:26   ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-07  9:24 ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-07  9:31   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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