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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
cc: current@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: Problem Report docs/731 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jun 96 00:59:17 PDT."
             <199606290759.RAA29925@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:12:51 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199606290759.RAA29925@godzilla.zeta.org.au> you write:
>2a) Investigate possible breakage of socketpair() in foreign libraries
>    (BSDI, Linux, etc).  Any library that uses the previously suggested
>    fix of handling socketpair() like pipe() will break.

NetBSD doesn't touch retval at all (e.g. they simply deleted the two
XXX lines), like many system calls.  Terry's suggestion of setting it
to 0 obviously does no harm but is kind of belt-n-suspenders.  Thus
fixing it in libc will likely break NetBSD compatibility.

  Bill