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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 01:34:13AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > The problem in perl is that $! is intimately bound to errno, and you have > no business doing anything with errno except examining it immediately > after a failed system call. IIRC, on some systems you cannot assign to > errno anyway since it can be implemented as a macro expanding to a > function. errno is required to expand to a modifiable lvalue by both c89 and c99, so this isn't an issue. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next