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Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Terje Mathisen

Re: VAX

06 Aug 25 00:49:21

   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 17:24:34 +0200, Terje Mathisen wrote:   
      
   > ... the problem was all the programs ported from unix which assumed   
   > that any negative return value was a failure code.   
      
   If the POSIX API spec says a negative return for a particular call is an   
   error, then a negative return for that particular call is an error.   
      
   I can’t imagine this kind of thing blithely being carried over to any non-   
   POSIX API calls.   
      
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