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Mon Apr 17 23:45:49 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063821.html

On Monday 17 April 2006 17:39, skip at pobox.com wrote:
 > 1. Why is errno being set to 0?

The C APIs don't promise to clear errno on input; you have to do that 
yourself.

 > 2. Why is errno's value then tested to see if it's not zero?
 >
 > Looks like this have been that way since December 1999 when Fred added it.

Looks like a bug to me.  It should be set just before confstr() is called.

  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>

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