errno

Clarence Dold dold at mitisft.Convergent.COM
Tue Jun 18 08:31:50 AEST 1991


in article <1991Jun17.124318.1384 at prl.dec.com>, boyd at prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) says:

> In article <2157 at mitisft.Convergent.COM>, dold at mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
>> printf("Errno %d: %s\n", want_err, 
>> 	want_err <= sys_nerr ? sys_errlist[want_err] : "Out of range" );

> Eh?  The bounds of a reasonable errnos lie between 1 and sys_nerr.
> `errno == 0' means no error.

But sys_errlist[0] does contain a string, so it shouldn't be excluded,
unless you especially like to have extra instructions in your code.
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