Hi Eric, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > > > * "checking whether perror matches strerror": strerror(-1) returns > > > an invalid pointer, and attempting to puts() this yields SIGBUS. > > > (Wouldn't it be safer to pass EPERM or something similarly > > > universal?) > > > > This is the purpose of the test: testing whether you can safely pass > > invalid error number, such as -1, to strerror. > > I thought it was to test that perror() and strerror() gave the > same output. > > Note that currently, the test passes despite the SIGBUS. It should > probably check that $? = 0 before comparing stdout vs. stderr.
I'm not sure. This test is about perror(). Should it fail just because strerror returns an invalid pointer? Eric, what do you think? Bruno -- In memoriam Thomas Sankara <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara>
