Am Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:53:25 -0500 schrieb "Michael Kerrisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Daniel, > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Gollub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > EINVAL bufsiz is not positive. > The EINVAL error was added to man-pages-1.18 in 1997 (even though, as > you note, the type was "size_t"). I suspect (this was well before I > had any association with man-pages) that was done to reflect kernel > reality (since one could bypass glibc invoke the syscall directly), > but obviously it is inconsistent with the prototype. Actually, it's not inconsistent as described, though perhaps that is unintentional. "Not positive" isn't the same as "negative", as zero isn't positive either, and zero is certainly a possible value of an unsigned type ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
