On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:18:31AM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote: > On 27.09.2011 12:23, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:35:41PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: > >>Since DragonFly's proplib implementation comes from NetBSD, I figured it > >>would be best to ask here what to do: > >>fix the documentation or fix the implementation ? > > > >The documentation. The implementation can't be exactly the same between > >kernel and userland for this kind of functions, because in kernel we have > >to return an errno.h value, while in userland the traditionnal way to go > >it to return a boolean, and get the error number from a global variable > >if we care. > > FWIW I am currently clarifying this API divergence with Manuel. We > should have something ready in a day or two. Stay tuned.
OK. I was about to start creating a patch for the manpage; I'll let you handle this then. -- Francois Tigeot
