Re: [Monotone-devel] Solaris breakage

[William Uther]

On 25/07/2007, at 9:02 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On 7/24/07, William Uther <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > zackw> I will bet a fabulous no-prize that errno's gotten clobbered
> > > zackw> by the time we get round to printing it.
> >
> > Well, I committed a change that makes sure the errnos were not
> > clobbered, and it hasn't changed the error.
>
> I saw that go by.  Unfortunately, it rather misses the point (and I'm
> tempted to ask you to revert it on legibility grounds).

Ahh - okie.  Do we know that gettext does NOT clobber errno on all  
systems?

> It isn't
> gettext() that I suspect of clobbering errno, it's remove() itself.
> remove() isn't a system call; it's *supposed* to call unlink() or
> rmdir() as appropriate, but if Solaris libc is screwing that up, the
> only way we'll know is by inspection of the actual sequence of system
> calls.  Which is what truss does.

Fair enough.

Be well,

Will         :-}