Broken alarm(3)

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > And writing to errno isn't allowed in C
> It is allowed, actually.  C99 describes it as a "modifiable lvalue"
> (OK, that's not explicit), footnote 170 says "a program that uses
> errno for error checking should set it to zero before a library
> function call" (OK, not normative).

Thanks for the correction.