Addressed ticket #40 (non-standard errno values).

[pdclib.old] / functions / _PDCLIB / prepwrite.c

diff --git a/functions/_PDCLIB/prepwrite.c b/functions/_PDCLIB/prepwrite.c
index c5a4c127543b40b14f016c60b3ac0fd04272538d..148e1c144c0bcec02e88220e136210ecc73f02cb 100644 (file)
--- a/functions/_PDCLIB/prepwrite.c
+++ b/functions/_PDCLIB/prepwrite.c
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ int _PDCLIB_prepwrite( struct _PDCLIB_file_t * stream )
          ( stream->status & ( _PDCLIB_FREAD | _PDCLIB_ERRORFLAG | _PDCLIB_WIDESTREAM | _PDCLIB_EOFFLAG ) ) ||
          ! ( stream->status & ( _PDCLIB_FWRITE | _PDCLIB_FAPPEND | _PDCLIB_FRW ) ) )
     {
-        _PDCLIB_errno = _PDCLIB_EIO;
+        /* Function called on illegal (e.g. input) stream.
+           See the comments on implementation-defined errno values in
+           <_PDCLIB_config.h>.
+        */
+        _PDCLIB_errno = _PDCLIB_ERROR;
         stream->status |= _PDCLIB_ERRORFLAG;
         return EOF;
     }