From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Possible bug in libc tmpnam() function
Date: 14 Sep 2001 11:17:09 GMT
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Ben Davis (ben AT vjpoole DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: Hmm, now I don't know what to think. fopen(outfile, "wt") had the same
: effect - errno was set to ENOENT. Is this correct behaviour then?

: > the file, since tmpnam() does not overwrite existing files. However, it is
: > my understanding that errno should be preserved by all successful library
: > calls.

I seems your understanding is a misunderstanding. Just point us to the
paragraph or side in the C (standard) document that says that errno
should be left alone by successful library calls.


Right,

						MartinS