Why this strange change?

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sun Jun 27 22:44:00 GMT 1999


> 
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 
> > I don't like this new behavior in return values at all. Why not return
> > -errno? Is that because some functions may return unsigned int?
> 
> Again, read the standard.  It has to be the error value.
> 

Where is the standard? Is that final? The standard is made up by people.
As I said, I don't like it as what you said it was. I don't believe
I am the only one who finds it confusing.

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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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