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Re: return value of sysctlbyname(3)



On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Hiroshi SAKURAI
<an.olive.tree%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> The manual page sysctlbyname(3) states:
>> "RETURN VALUES
>>     If the call to sysctl is successful, the number of bytes copied out is
>>     returned.  Otherwise -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately."

> From looking at lib/libc/gen/systrl.c and sysctlbyname.c,
> it seems that sysctl and sysctlbyname returns 0 on success.
Is there bug in the documentation?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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