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From: bkr@mcshh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: What about errno==0 ?
Keywords: errno, errorcheck, standard
Message-ID: <7798@mcshh.hanse.de>
Date: 15 Jul 90 04:47:36 GMT
Distribution: comp
Lines: 17

Hi !

I am want to let my code now whether a routine returning NULL on failure
failed because of an I/O Error are for a logical mistake. For example,
I'm setting a global variable = errno after a failed malloc(), then do
an fclose() and return. I want to set this global to zero if the code
failed because of any error not setting errno. 

My question is:
What does the standard say about the value 0 for errno ?
Can I assume that there is no errno.h defining any errorcode = 0 ?

Any help appreciated,
  Bjoern

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