From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 11 7:20:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6556337B401 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from scsiguy.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0BFKLs29913; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:20:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200101111520.f0BFKLs29913@aslan.scsiguy.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed chage to sbuf semantics. In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Jan 2001 16:11:00 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:20:21 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >"Justin T. Gibbs" writes: >> One other point. It would be nice if the return values were in the >> errno style unless you believe that the only error that can ever be >> returned indicates that an overflow occurred. > >All the possible error conditions are documented in the man page. >Please read it. Note I said "ever". Should the implementation change, the reason for failure may also change. Simply updating the man page in this case won't automatically update the code that uses the interface. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message