Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Not with top-of-tree FreeBSD, it isn't - the top-of-tree FreeBSD code returns 0:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/confstr.c?rev=1.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup The documentation, until recently, said it returned -1, but I filed a bug about that: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/106234 and it was recently fixed: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/confstr.3.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14 As for NetBSD, I filed a bug on the code: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=35170 which is now closed - they changed the code and the man page. Similar changes were made to OpenBSD in response to bug mail I sent: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/confstr.c.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/confstr.3.diff?r1=1.14&r2=1.15 so DragonFly is now inconsistent with the top of the tree of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and its code is inconsistent with the 5.x and 6.x releases of FreeBSD. > I don't have > a reference to POSIX.2 to verify the original specification. > Perhaps POSIX.2 said it returned -1 (I think my POSIX.2 is at work), but what counts now is the Single UNIX Specification, and, as per the URL I think I sent in my mail: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/confstr.html it says it returns 0 on errors. _______________________________________________________ DragonFly issue tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue393> _______________________________________________________
