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Subject: Re: ttyname_r
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I found our ttyname_r has different return type than POSIX:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/ttyname.html
and POSIX says:
    If successful, the ttyname_r() function shall return zero.
    Otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.

libc implements it as following format:
char * ttyname_r(int fd, char *buf, size_t len);
and when success, it returns non-NULL pointer, it almost has opposite
meaning with POSIX.
This causes some pthread tests failed here.

David Xu