Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Comments on INSERT.c Message-ID: <835@auspex.UUCP> Date: 12 Jan 89 05:11:08 GMT References: <308@twwells.uucp> <313@twwells.uucp> <2692@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 13 >Because that fprintf() will stomp on errno. ... >Don't you just love getting bounced mail with the error message indicating >that "Fred Bloggs" is not a typewriter, or even worse that someone attempted >to perform an inappropriate ioctl on him? I'm glad I'm not Fred. That's an unrelated problem. "sendmail" has the habit of including the error message for "errno" in its messages, *even if the failure that provoked the message wasn't a system call failure and "errno" is just left over from a system call N operations ago.* Needless to say, it really shouldn't be doing that.