From e9261b1e2d5cf0e2838b69442d718784a6f7ab34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: antirez <antirez@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 14:18:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ae.c: set errno when error is not a failing syscall.

In this way the caller is able to perform better error checking or to
use strerror() without the risk of meaningless error messages being
displayed.
---
 src/ae.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ae.c b/src/ae.c
index d2faed326..90be4e28f 100644
--- a/src/ae.c
+++ b/src/ae.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <poll.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <time.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 
 #include "ae.h"
 #include "zmalloc.h"
@@ -104,7 +105,10 @@ void aeStop(aeEventLoop *eventLoop) {
 int aeCreateFileEvent(aeEventLoop *eventLoop, int fd, int mask,
         aeFileProc *proc, void *clientData)
 {
-    if (fd >= eventLoop->setsize) return AE_ERR;
+    if (fd >= eventLoop->setsize) {
+        errno = ERANGE;
+        return AE_ERR;
+    }
     aeFileEvent *fe = &eventLoop->events[fd];
 
     if (aeApiAddEvent(eventLoop, fd, mask) == -1)