[perl #85104] select returns -1 but $! is 0 (or empty string)

On Sun Jun 23 22:50:30 2013, tonyc wrote:
> On Tue Mar 01 07:44:37 2011, perl5-porters@ton.iguana.be wrote:
> > Ok following is the patch against blead. Changes:
> >   - Only save errno once before calling a signal handler
> >     (but restore at the end of each handler)
> >   - Also save $^E
> 
> While the patch supplied has some issues, I wonder if dSAVE_ERRNO should
> save the Win32/OS/2 error codes in general?

Here's an alternate patch that extends the errno save macros for
platforms other than VMS.

No tests yet.

Tony


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• [perl #85104] select returns -1 but $! is 0 (or empty string) by Tony Cook via RT
• [perl #85104] select returns -1 but $! is 0 (or empty string) by Tony Cook via RT
• [perl #85104] select returns -1 but $! is 0 (or empty string) by Tony Cook via RT