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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:20:21 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed chage to sbuf semantics. 
Message-ID:  <200101111520.f0BFKLs29913@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Jan 2001 16:11:00 %2B0100." <xzphf3615vf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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>"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> writes:
>> One other point.  It would be nice if the return values were in the
>> errno style unless you believe that the only error that can ever be
>> returned indicates that an overflow occurred.
>
>All the possible error conditions are documented in the man page.
>Please read it.

Note I said "ever".  Should the implementation change, the reason
for failure may also change.  Simply updating the man page in this
case won't automatically update the code that uses the interface.

--
Justin



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