Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:43:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Mike Makonnen <makonnen@pacbell.net>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Port of NetBSD cat(1)'s -f option. Message-ID: <20020516124343.GA93634@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020516152345.E349@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <20020515211758.GB68380@hades.hell.gr> <20020516164332.B1704-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020516134044.A349@straylight.oblivion.bg> <xzpznz0thma.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020516152345.E349@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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On 2002-05-16 15:23, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote: > Actually, now I don't know what to think - for the past few months, > I have been writing my own programs with explicit checks for -1. > Is there an OS out there that returns negative values other than -1? > I presume that no *new* OS and no new syscalls will be written to > return such, so no further incompatibility would be introduced; > but is there an existing platform that would break programs which > check explicitly for -1? I'm not sure. The < 0 check is almost hardwired in my fingers, because of a few years of writing it this way. Just trying to be on the safe side of the world, I guess. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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