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Date:      Mon, 03 Sep 2001 23:04:14 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: brk(2) manpage seems erroneous and confusing
Message-ID:  <3B946EDE.616F7EDC@mindspring.com>
References:  <20010901204223.K1753-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> > I'd suggest taking the brk(2) page from NetBSD, which language
> > looks much better.  If noone minds, I'll do that.  Of course, I'll
> > change the function prototypes in the manpage to match our unistd.h
> > unless we decide to fix the latter, too.
> 
> Better change unistd.h.  The kernel returns int.

Ugh.  sizeof(int) != sizeof(void *) everywhere...

-- Terry

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