Not a typewriter

[Mikel Manitius]

>>>What does the sys_errlist message 'Not a typewriter' *really* mean??
>>
>>I think there may be one or two system calls that will alter
>>errno to be 25, without returning a non-zero value, when in
>>fact there was no error.
>>                                     Mikel Manitius
> 
>This is true. *However*, if you look at the documentation *carefully*, you
>will find that it says that errno is only valid if the system call preceeding
>it returned an error value.

Well, there is an exception. If a read or write is interrupted by
a signal, it will return 0 or number of bytes written before the
interrupt occured. In this case errno = 4, and no error code is
returned from the system call.
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