confstr() should return 0, not -1, on errors
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Dec 4 03:12:45 PST 2006
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:44:56PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> According to
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/confstr.html
>
> confstr() should return 0, not (size_t)-1, on errors. The current
> DragonFly BSD implementation returns -1 if sysctl() fails.
It should be noted that this is consistent with other BSDs. I don't have
a reference to POSIX.2 to verify the original specification.
Joerg
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