Re: fix uname.3 manpage.

‎Sorry - I responded to the wrong email! Rob

Re: fix uname.3 manpage.

‎Ok, thanks for the response. I will review your diff and see what I can do.   Original Message   From: Ingo Schwarze Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2016 2:26 PM To: Gleydson Soares Cc: tech@openbsd.org; j...@kerhand.co.uk Subject: Re: fix uname.3 manpage. Hi Gleydson, Gleydson Soares wrote on Sat

Re: fix uname.3 manpage.

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Gleydson Soares wrote: > I stlumbled upon it, while reading uname(1) code. ... > --- uname.c 24 Dec 2015 15:01:24 - 1.17 > +++ uname.c 9 Oct 2016 18:41:31 - > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) > print_mask = PRINT_SYSNAME; > }

Re: fix uname.3 manpage.

Philip Guenther writes: > > On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Gleydson Soares wrote: > > uname(3) function returns 0 on successful and -1 on failure. > > "non-negative value" is wrong here. > > Hmm, that's a direct quote from the standard. While our implementation > only returns zero

Re: fix uname.3 manpage.

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Gleydson Soares wrote: > uname(3) function returns 0 on successful and -1 on failure. > "non-negative value" is wrong here. Hmm, that's a direct quote from the standard. While our implementation only returns zero on success, an application which checked for a return value

Re: fix uname.3 manpage.

Hi Gleydson, Gleydson Soares wrote on Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 05:50:00PM -0300: > uname(3) function returns 0 on successful and -1 on failure. > "non-negative value" is wrong here. It is not wrong. When uname(3) succeeds, it does return a non-negative value, even though that may always be 0

fix uname.3 manpage.

uname(3) function returns 0 on successful and -1 on failure. "non-negative value" is wrong here. Index: uname.3 === RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/gen/uname.3,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -p -r1.15 uname.3 --- uname.3 21 Jan