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This noncompliant code example, however, does comply with ERR30-C. Set errno to zero before calling a library function known to set errno, and check errno only after the function returns a value indicating failureOnly inspect errno after calling functions known to use errno to report errors.
Compliant Solution
In this compliant solution, the opener() function returns a value of type errno_t, providing a clear indication that this function returns an error code.
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