Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:12:30PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Well, there seems to be enough confusion, even in this email list, that
> > identifying _why_ errno is being cleared is a good idea.
> >
> > I modified it to:
> >
> > errno = 0; /* avoid having to check the result for failure */
>
> I don't know about others but I find that wording ambiguous. Like it's
> saying that once you've done that it can't fail. I think I'd prefer
> something like:
>
> errno = 0; /* Make error condition detectable */
>
> or even
>
> errno = 0; /* clear pending errors */
>
> or
>
> errno = 0; /* clear prior detected errors */
Maybe it should be:
errno = 0; /* Allow unconditional errno check */
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