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Re: [PATCH 2/3] posix: Improve default posix_spawn implementation
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 09:08:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] posix: Improve default posix_spawn implementation
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On Jun 29 2017, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 29/06/2017 12:20, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Jun 29 2017, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Since posix_spawn is not support to set errno in case of failure
>>
>> Is it?
>
> My understanding of posix_spawn return value [1] states that the error number
> should be returned as the function return value, not on errno.
But that doesn't forbid spurious writes to errno, does it?
Andreas.
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