Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:54:31 +0100 (CET) From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: pere@hungry.com Subject: standards/45896: setnetgrent() should return error code Message-ID: <20021201115431.EE83612@nerdhaven.nuug.no>
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>Number: 45896 >Category: standards >Synopsis: setnetgrent() should return error code >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-standards >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 01 04:00:02 PST 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Petter Reinholdtsen >Release: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 i386 >Organization: The Hungry Programmers >Environment: System: FreeBSD nerdhaven.nuug.no 4.7-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Oct 27 09:49:54 CET 2002 root@nerdhaven.nuug.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NERDHAVEN i386 >Description: The current setnetgrent() call do not return any value. This make it impossible to detect the difference between an non-existand netgroup, and an empty netgroup. The same call return 'int' on most other Unices (Solaris, HP/UX, Tru64 Unix, Darwin, Linux). The value on these unixes is 1 if the group exist, and 0 if it is missing. >How-To-Repeat: The following code fail on FreeBSD. #include <netdb.h> int main() { int found = setnetgrent("non-existand-netgroup"); return 0; } >Fix: Change the API for setnetgrent() to return 1 on success, and 0 on failure. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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