[vox-tech] errno upon success (a real success)?

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:28:14 -0700


begin Micah J. Cowan <micah@cowan.name> 
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:15:46PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > does anyone know of an example where errno is set upon success that may
> > not be as much of a stretch as taking the square root of infinity?
> 
> I'm pretty sure there are no such cases in C proper; dunno about
> POSIX.
 
oi, i should know this by now.  sorry to have to ask, but what exactly
is the difference between C proper and POSIX?  and where does ISO and
ANSI fit in?

if you can give me an url that you like that explains this, that would
be just as good.  :)

pete

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