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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Rose via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Seija <doremylover123@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] maintenance: compare output of pthread functions for inequality with 0
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 20:55:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4pl5BzQnw0Fm+5S@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <221202.86k039fz7x.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

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On 2022-12-02 at 18:10:57, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> But (and especially if you're interested) we really should follow-up
> here and fix the "error()" etc. part of this. After this we have cases
> in-tree where we on failure:
> 
>  * Call die_errno() (good)
>  * Call die(), error() etc., but with a manual strerror() argument,
>    these should just use the *_errno() helper.
>  * Don't report on the errno at all, e.g. in this case shown here.
> 
> It seems to me that all of these should be using die_errno(),
> error_errno() etc.

Actually, I don't think that's correct.

> Or maybe it's the other way around, and we should not rely on the global
> "errno", but always capture the return value, and give that to
> strerror() (or set "errno = ret", and call {die,error,warning}_errno()).

Yeah, I think we need to do this.  That's because unlike most other
functions, the pthread functions _don't_ set errno, and instead return
the error value.  That's why on a typical Unix system, we would have
never failed before this patch: because errno values are always
positive.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-02 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-02 17:02 [PATCH] maintenance: compare output of pthread functions for inequality with 0 Rose via GitGitGadget
2022-12-02 18:05 ` Jeff Hostetler
2022-12-02 18:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-12-02 18:44   ` Jeff Hostetler
2022-12-02 20:55   ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2022-12-02 22:46     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-12-03  0:26       ` brian m. carlson

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