svn commit: r211276 - head/lib/libc/net
Hajimu UMEMOTO
ume at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 5 15:44:36 UTC 2010
Hi,
>>>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:40:44 +0300
>>>>> Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> said:
kostikbel> Yes, I saw that commit. And there is a software in wild that does expect
kostikbel> return value 0 and NULL returned pointer when protocol was not found,
kostikbel> as opposed to some processing error. The interpretation of non-zero
kostikbel> error code is "We did something wrong, or system configuration is wrong,
kostikbel> etc". While zero error code and NULL pointer is perceived as "Wrong
kostikbel> protocol name supplied".
Okay, I found the description in Ubuntu's manpage. So, I've committed
to return zero when no protocol entry is found.
Sincerely,
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Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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