Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:
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Otherwise I'd strongly prefer to see a word that hints that this is
an otherwise unneeded workaround for comiplers. Your suggested
title instead hints that it is wrong to assume that errno will be
set to non-zero after a syscall. I do not think that is the message
we want to send to our readers.
Right, the oneline I suggested was only for the original patch, with which
I disagreed.
I actually do not know how your rewrite could be better, though.
/* GCC thinks socket()/connect() might fail to set errno */
return errno ? errno : EIO;
If a compiler thinks errno may *not* be set, can 'errno' be reliably
used to decide if it can be returned as-is or a fallback value EIO
should be used, without triggering the same (incorrect) working in
the first place?