Fred> Looks like a bug to me. It should be set just before confstr() is
Fred> called.
Thanks. I'll fix, test and check in...
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On Monday 17 April 2006 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. Why is errno being set to 0?
The C APIs don't promise to clear errno on input; you have to do that
yourself.
> 2. Why is errno's value then tested to see if it's not zero?
>
> Looks like this have been that way since December 1999
More C++ stuff...
According to the man page on my Mac:
If the call to confstr() is not successful, -1 is returned and errno is
set appropriately.
but the code in posix_confstr looks like:
if (PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O&:confstr", conv_confstr_confname, &name)) {
int len = con
