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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:28:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: GB Clark <gclarkii@vsservices.com>
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Subject: misc/42422: dbm_delete returns -1 instead of 1 when the key does not exist in the database.
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>Number:         42422
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       dbm_delete returns -1 instead of 1 when the key does not exist in the database.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 04 13:30:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     GB Clark
>Release:        4.6-STABLE
>Organization:
VSS
>Environment:
FreeBSD prime.vsservices.com 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 22 01:29:14 CDT 2002 gclarkii@prime.vsservices.com:/1002/objtree/usr/src/sys/PRIME i386    
>Description:
dbm_delete is documented to return 1 if the key does NOT exist in the dbm file.
In lib/libc/db/ndmb.c it returns -1 or 0 only. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to delete a non-exist key and get -1 instead of 1 using dbm_delete.
>Fix:
have dbm_delete in lib/libc/db/ndbm.c return status instead of the if switch.  The original db delete function returns the SAME status codes as dbm_delete according to the man page for db.    
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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