Subject: Re: many kvm functions returns 0 on errors.
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: msaitoh <msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/30/1998 07:40:37
> > but libkvm.c::kvm_read() returns 0. PR5242 says this.
> > The kvm_* manpages said that many kvm functions returns -1 on errors, but
> > actually returns 0.
> >
> > Both OpenBSD and FreeBSD is the same as NetBSD. Is this correct behavior?
> > I don't think so.
>
> No, please go ahead and fix this :-)
The fact is that only kvm_read() and kvm_write() is inconsistent.
I fixed these functions and commited.
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SAITOH Masanobu (msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp)
University of Electro-Communications