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Re: [PATCH] coreutils-6.0 memcoll fix
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH] coreutils-6.0 memcoll fix |
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Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:26:11 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> The following obvious patch is needed for the memcoll change in 6.0.
Thanks, I applied it.
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> I guess we did document in memcoll.c that memcoll explicitly sets
> errno to 0 on success, making memcoll not quite like strcoll.
Yes, that's the point for now.
In the longer run I'd like to fix memcoll so that it always returns
a reliable result, so that the user never needs to inspect errno.
But for the short run let's just leave the interface alone.