On 2008 Jul 2, at 2:32, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:17 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 Jul 2, at 2:15, Jonathan Cast wrote:
It seems as though it can return -1 if given non-sensical input. But in
The POSIX spec says it returns EINVAL in that case.
Are you sure? A little googling picks up e.g. HP docs [1] that state
Hm. I think the manuals I was looking at are ambiguous on the point, and I can't get at the actual standard right now. Probably best to assume -1/EINVAL is a possible return value, then. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH