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Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file
Date 2011-10-31 15:50 +1300
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On 10/31/11 03:16 PM, Carlo Dapor wrote:
>
> I also learned a few things, thanks to your posting.
> The results are from Mac OS X 10.6.8, they may not apply to RedHat
> Linux.
>
> Allow me to point out some observations.
>
> 1. fscanf's behaviour
>
> What I take away is that fscanf(3) does not set errno, whether the
> call succeeds or not.

It isn't required to set errno by the C standard, but it is on a POSIX 
compliant system.  So it should set errno on both Linux and OSX.

-- 
Ian Collins

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no error by fscanf on reading from output file "V.Subramanian, India" <subramanian100in@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-29 23:59 -0700
  Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-30 20:19 +1300
    Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2011-10-30 08:18 +0000
      Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-30 21:23 +1300
        Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-10-30 08:11 -0400
          Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-31 07:38 +1300
            Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-10-30 19:40 +0000
              Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-31 08:50 +1300
  Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file "V.Subramanian, India" <subramanian100in@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-30 00:01 -0700
  Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2011-10-30 08:39 +0000
  Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Carlo Dapor <catull@gmail.com> - 2011-10-30 19:16 -0700
    Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-31 15:50 +1300
      Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file "V.Subramanian, India" <subramanian100in@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-30 22:55 -0700
        Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-10-31 07:14 +0000
          Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-31 20:56 +1300
          Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-10-31 15:43 +0000
        Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-31 01:35 -0700
          Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-10-31 13:46 -0700
    Re: no error by fscanf on reading from output file Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2011-10-31 07:02 +0000

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