Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Problem with sh/bash and snapshot cygwin1-20050825.dll Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:55:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ----Original Message---- >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 26 August 2005 15:52 > ----Original Message---- >> From: Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 26 August 2005 15:48 > >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:17:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>> While you're at it, fix realpath(NULL, buf) to set buf[0]='\0', instead >>> of leaving garbage there. >> >> What's the rationale for touching buf when realpath is returning an >> error and setting EINVAL? >> >> cgf > > Standards-mandated leeway? ... plus of course it means you can call strlen on the buffer without having to check errno first ... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/