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points by throwaway2037 2 days ago | 0 comments

    > You can't check errno to see if there was a failure because, as the man page says, the value of errno is unspecified when crypt succeeds.

You can set errno to zero before the call. If the value is non-zero after the call, that is a good heuristic for failure.

...unless crypt() is one of the many, many functions which themselves internally call functions that set errno. In which case you can't be sure.