"ultra" <ultraman@rogers_NOSPAM.com> writes:

>> what is the errno when it fails?
>
> it didn't set the errno when it failed...
>
>

Huh? What do you mean it didn't set the errno? Here is your original
message:

> I have a program that call getpwnam to get the user info, but sometimes
> the call returned NULL with errno EINVAL.




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