setting errno

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De:	Tim Taylor [SMTP:ttaylor@mitre.org]
> Date:	mardi 19 janvier 1999 18:24
> À:	gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Objet:	setting errno
> 
> I'm porting a program that sets errno if an operation fails.  However,
> in
> the B20.1 errno is a macro that dereferences the pointer returned by a
> function #define errno (*__errno())
> 
> What is the proper way to set errno in cygwin?
> 
Do you mean that "errno = Exxx;" fails? Iwould have expected it to work
without any problem; the only problem this causse is that its not
possible to declare a static (or global) variable and initialize it by
"static perrno = &errno;" (but I'm not sure if ANSI C requires this to
work...).

> Based on comments I've read in the headers, it appears that the
> following
> will work:
> 
> _REENT->_errno = xxx
> 
What's "_REENT"? I don't know, but this seems utterly non-portable...

> Is this correct, or is there a more compatible or preferred way of
> doing this?
> 
I would just simply use "errno = xxx;" I'm sure I do this all the time
and I never get any error...



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