Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] drop ##sys#file-info

[John Cowan]

Alan Post scripsit:

> errno is only set when a syscall returns -1/signals an error.  If
> you call stat and it succeeds, errno wasn't touched by stat, and
> has whatever value it did before stat was called.

More precisely, its value is undefined.  In any case, you're right
to say that checking errno is always the Wrong Thing after success.

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