svn commit: r250245 - head/lib/libc/locale
    David Chisnall 
    theraven at FreeBSD.org
       
    Sun May  5 21:03:28 UTC 2013
    
    
  
On 5 May 2013, at 19:31, Andrey Chernov <ache at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> It is better to fix this function return type to match POSIX standard
> rather than to document its non-standard behavior. We try to follow
> POSIX when possible and this is the case.
We follow Darwin in this case, which returns 0 on success or -1 on error.  'Fixing' this will break code written for Darwin and testing the return value.  Not fixing it will not break POSIX code that ignores the (unexpected) return value.
David
    
    
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