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From: paul@whuts.UUCP (HO)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Weird syscall returns
Message-ID: <2474@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 14:24:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 22 14:24:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 02:00:17 EDT
References: <1641@sfsup.UUCP>
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In article <1641@sfsup.UUCP>, mpl@sfsup.UUCP (M.P.Lindner) writes:
> So, what call returns a -1 as an error that can also return a negative
> integer as a valid value?  NONE!  

Ever wonder why in /usr/src/cmd/nice.c, nice is called without
having its return value checked?

	Paul Ho