Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:05:09 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: [RFC] ioctl(2) return value |
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> Not only Sun does, Linux does too (e.g. in various networking ioctls). > I would just fix the man page.
Ach - more ugliness in Linux. New man page fragment:
... RETURN VALUE Usually, on success zero is returned. A few ioctls use the return value as an output parameter and return a non negative value on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ...
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