sasc re-write
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai
asmodai at wxs.nl
Mon Jan 17 22:27:08 PST 2005
-On [20050118 05:02], David Cuthbert (dacut at xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>Heh... this is one of those areas where there seem to be two distinct
>camps with little grey area. :-) For the record, I'm in the "Thou shalt
>not use an integral value as the result in thy boolean test" camp with
>Diane here. Zero meaning false, non-zero meaning true is merely a
>convention (which is simple to grasp and not as error-prone as many
>other conventions, admittedly, but still a convention).
I think that this says enough:
intro(2):
Successful calls never set errno; once set, it remains until another error
occurs. It should only be examined after an error.
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