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28.0.90; segfault in lock_file

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Message #71 received at 53136 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 53136 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53136: 28.0.90; segfault in lock_file
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:30:03 +0200

> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:11:04 -0800
> Cc: 53136 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> 3. More importantly, I'm sure there are other places where Emacs assumes 
> that errno values are positive. I doubt whether it's reasonable to 
> expect Emacs developers to remember and work around this Haiku 
> incompatibility, every time they call a function that sets errno or 
> returns an errno value. Instead, we should arrange for Haiku builds to 
> use positive errno values, they way errno behaves on GNU and other 
> POSIX-compatible hosts. This should be a much more maintainable solution.

I agree.

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