[PATCH] xfsdump: fix system() error reporting

[Timothy Shimmin]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:08:33AM +1100, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> > Looks reasonable.
> > Though, in the case of returning -1, it might be more interesting
> > to know the value of errno ? (I presume errno would be set in that case).
>
> From looking at the manpage and the glibc implementation it seem like
> system does not actually set errno.
>
>
Fair enough.

Yeah, it didn't seem clear in the man page and
I thought it might make a call to fork, waitpid etc which might set an
errno.

Cheers,
Tim.
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