Subject: Re: chmod patch
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com>
From: Liam J. Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/17/2005 21:17:09
On Tue(17)/May/05 - , Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20050517183626.GA468@anarion>,
> Liam J. Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org> wrote:
> >Hey,
> >
> >	Could you guys look at the following patch:
> >
> >
> >- setmode(3) can return NULL due to malloc failing. However,
> >  if malloc does fail an incorrect error message would be 
> >  printed. You can resolve this by checking errno.
> 
> Actually someone will need to fix the source for setmode in order
> for your patch to work. There are other calls that can set errno
> (strtol() for example), so your patch is incorrect. You should
> file a PR about fixing error checking and documentation in setmode.
> 
> christos


Hmm, I see now. Maybe we could check for ENOMEM?

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