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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-help@sourceware.org>,
	 Linux man-pages <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>,
	 shadow <~hallyn/shadow@lists.sr.ht>,
	 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: strtol(3) setting of errno
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:00:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyvrv4bl.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZWhUR9AqoSLKeT46@debian> (Alejandro Colomar's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:22:09 +0100")

* Alejandro Colomar:

> Now I realize that commit was probably wrong, and one needs to check
> both errno and the return value to determine that the call failed.  Can
> you please confirm what the correct specification of strtol(3) is?

The most detailed specification we have is the one that is in POSIX.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-30 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-30  9:22 Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-30 12:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2023-11-30 12:40   ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-30 22:13     ` Jakub Wilk
2023-11-30 22:45       ` Alejandro Colomar

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