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

On Sun Jul 14 18:10:49 2013, tonyc wrote:
> 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.

I've applied a varient of this as
6ca940a96b9e45faae91a09cbb08c467933bbde9 with tests for win32 in
ed51a345f34e4dd7c7c58241f538c01d9f58b539.

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