sasc re-write

Liam J Foy liamfoy at sepulcrum.org
Mon Jan 17 10:43:50 PST 2005


On Mon(17)/Jan/05 - , Diane Bruce wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:24:53AM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > hey, just a few comments
> >
> ...
> 
> And a nit...
> 
> > >+        val = strtol(str, &ep, 10);
> > >+        if (errno)
> > >+                err(1, "strtol failed: %s", str);
> 
> 
> I'd not attempt to use errno as a boolean, I'd do:
> 
> if (errno != 0)
> 	...
> 
> Especially as later on you do:
> 
> >+      if (ioctl(fd, asc_setting, &asc_value) < 0)

I disagree. errno is normally used as boolean.

> 
> > you don't reset errno to 0, so this might be not working. reading the
> > man page it might be needed :/
> 
> Indeed it would be.
> 
> - Diane.

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