Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:54:31 +0100 (CET) From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: pere@hungry.com Subject: standards/45896: setnetgrent() should return error code Message-ID: <20021201115431.EE83612@nerdhaven.nuug.no>
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>Number: 45896
>Category: standards
>Synopsis: setnetgrent() should return error code
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-standards
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 01 04:00:02 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Petter Reinholdtsen
>Release: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
The Hungry Programmers
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD nerdhaven.nuug.no 4.7-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Oct 27 09:49:54 CET 2002 root@nerdhaven.nuug.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NERDHAVEN i386
>Description:
The current setnetgrent() call do not return any value. This
make it impossible to detect the difference between an non-existand
netgroup, and an empty netgroup. The same call return 'int' on most
other Unices (Solaris, HP/UX, Tru64 Unix, Darwin, Linux). The value
on these unixes is 1 if the group exist, and 0 if it is missing.
>How-To-Repeat:
The following code fail on FreeBSD.
#include <netdb.h>
int main()
{
int found = setnetgrent("non-existand-netgroup");
return 0;
}
>Fix:
Change the API for setnetgrent() to return 1 on success, and 0
on failure.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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