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RE: Problem with sh/bash and snapshot cygwin1-20050825.dll
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:55:18 +0100
- Subject: RE: Problem with sh/bash and snapshot cygwin1-20050825.dll
----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 26 August 2005 15:52
> ----Original Message----
>> From: Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: 26 August 2005 15:48
>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:17:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> While you're at it, fix realpath(NULL, buf) to set buf[0]='\0', instead
>>> of leaving garbage there.
>>
>> What's the rationale for touching buf when realpath is returning an
>> error and setting EINVAL?
>>
>> cgf
>
> Standards-mandated leeway?
... plus of course it means you can call strlen on the buffer without having
to check errno first ...
cheers,
DaveK
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