misc/106414: getconf needs to check for 0, not -1,
when checking for confstr errors
Guy Harris
guy at alum.mit.edu
Wed Dec 6 02:51:25 PST 2006
>Number: 106414
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: getconf needs to check for 0, not -1, when checking for confstr errors
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 06 10:40:02 GMT 2006
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>Originator: Guy Harris
>Release: 7.0-CURRENT
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>Description:
In FreeBSD, confstr() has returned 0, rather than -1, on all errors for a while (that's the behavior the Single UNIX Specification requires); the documentation was recently fixed to reflect that.
As was pointed out in a response to a bug I filed on confstr() returning -1 in a different BSD, the getconf command needs to be changed to check for 0, not -1, in its confstr() call.
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