ya.. I didn't errno=0 before the call at the begining. Once I set errno=0
before the call, it is still errno=0 after the call fail...

"Dragan Cvetkovic" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "ultra" <ultraman@rogers_NOSPAM.com> writes:
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> >> what is the errno when it fails?
> >
> > it didn't set the errno when it failed...
> >
> >
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> 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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