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authorPhilip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>2017-07-31 11:30:55 +0100
committerPhilip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>2017-08-03 10:21:13 +0100
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Consistently save errno immediately after the operation setting it
Prevent the situation where errno is set by function A, then function B is called (which is typically _(), but could be anything else) and it overwrites errno, then errno is checked by the caller. errno is a horrific API, and we need to be careful to save its value as soon as a function call (which might set it) returns. i.e. Follow the pattern: int errsv, ret; ret = some_call_which_might_set_errno (); errsv = errno; if (ret < 0) puts (strerror (errsv)); This patch implements that pattern throughout GLib. There might be a few places in the test code which still use errno directly. They should be ported as necessary. It doesn’t modify all the call sites like this: if (some_call_which_might_set_errno () && errno == ESOMETHING) since the refactoring involved is probably more harmful than beneficial there. It does, however, refactor other call sites regardless of whether they were originally buggy. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785577
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