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Subject: misc/106414: getconf needs to check for 0, not -1,
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>Number:         106414
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       getconf needs to check for 0, not -1, when checking for confstr errors
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 06 10:40:02 GMT 2006
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Guy Harris
>Release:        7.0-CURRENT
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>Description:
In FreeBSD, confstr() has returned 0, rather than -1, on all errors for a while (that's the behavior the Single UNIX Specification requires); the documentation was recently fixed to reflect that.

As was pointed out in a response to a bug I filed on confstr() returning -1 in a different BSD, the getconf command needs to be changed to check for 0, not -1, in its confstr() call.
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