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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Problem with sh/bash and snapshot cygwin1-20050825.dll
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:55:18 +0100
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----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....


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