Re: LYNX-DEV How do I clear errno?

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> >  
> > I know this is not really 100% Lynx relevant ... but, how on earth does 
> > one clear errno after say a failed strtol () .. clearerr is to be 
> > associated with a file pointer? 
>  
> errno = 0; 
>  
> But as said elsewhere, no-one would normally do this; you may even find that 
> it becomes set by library calls, with no error propagated to the top level. 
not even that - for VAX C (there's some workaround in vile, for example),
DEC did something like this

        #define errno  vaxc$errno()

and you cannot assign to that.

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