Re: Why this strange change?

[hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)]

> 
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 
> > Where can I find it on-line?
> 
> Nowhere.  But the X/Open standard might also mention it.  Beside, you
> can believe me.
> 
> > If it is true, I have to say POSIX is dumb on it. Under Unix,
> > usually the negative int return values indicate error. I tried to
> > think of any positive int error return values. Are there any?
> 
> All functions introduced by POSIX behave this way.  It saves an errno
> access which might, as in glibc's case, be a hidden function call.
> 

I don't like this new behavior in return values at all. Why not return
-errno? Is that because some functions may return unsigned int?


H.J.