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Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] manual: clarify errno value on success [BZ #22615]

From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:46:54 +0300
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] manual: clarify errno value on success [BZ #22615]
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References: <20171222193101.3396-1-aurelien@aurel32.net> <20171222193101.3396-3-aurelien@aurel32.net>

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 08:31:00PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> The current glibc manual is ambiguous about the errno value on success
> and suggests that it is left unchanged. Some functions might and
> sometimes do change the errno value, however they never set it to 0.

The trailing part "however they never set it to 0" is not quite correct:
the next patch in the series moves "__set_errno (0)" around.

The patch looks OK, please commit.

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