Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:02:20 -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote: > > > If we're going to just return an arbitrary value shouldn't we keep > > returning UINT_MAX as we always have? This would preserve compat with > > the other BSD libc implementations, too. > > I think that a return value of 0 is less likely to cause actual > harm but if you'd prefer to use UINT_MAX that is OK with me.
Without considering the cases where an incorrect value is passed in... How many pieces of code have you found that inspect the return value?
