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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:00:05 GMT
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: standards/122051: Add posix_spawn(3)
Message-ID:  <200804170200.m3H205tM036409@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR standards/122051; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, ed@fxq.nl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: standards/122051: Add posix_spawn(3)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:53:45 +0800

 what error code should be returned from posix_spawn ? it seems it should
 return error number directly (it does not use errno),
 the specification said:
 
 "an error number shall be returned as the function return value to 
 indicate the error"
 
 so it unlikely will return -1 on failure.
 
 Regards,
 David Xu
 



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