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Re: GnuTLS (libgrypt really) and Postfix

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Koch)
Wed Feb 15 20:57:49 2006

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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Cc: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>,
	Dave Korn <davek_throwaway@hotmail.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
	smb@cs.columbia.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:18:00 +0100
In-Reply-To: <43F24353.9070108@av8n.com> (John Denker's message of "Tue, 14
	Feb 2006 15:53:39 -0500")

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:53:39 -0500, John Denker said:

> It is straightforward but laborious to simulate exception-throwing
> in C:
>     extern int errno;
>     /* try some stuff */
>     if (errno) return;         /* return immediately on any error */

Except that this does not work.  ERRNO gets set by most calls only on
error so if everything went fine in the "try ssome stuff" you get
random results.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner





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