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PR/35170: Guy Harris: confstr() should return 0, not -1, on errors

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christos 2006-12-03 00:39:19 +00:00
parent b9d66ca8f1
commit 8b3eb79f93
2 changed files with 18 additions and 11 deletions
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lib/libc/gen/confstr.3
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: confstr.3,v 1.15 2003/08/07 16:42:46 agc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: confstr.3,v 1.16 2006/12/03 00:39:19 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)confstr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
.Dd June 4, 1993
.Dd December 2, 2006
.Dt CONFSTR 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ environment variable that finds all the standard utilities.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If the call to
.Nm confstr
is not successful, ((size_t)-1) is returned and
is not successful, is returned and
.Va errno
is set appropriately.
Otherwise, if the variable does not have a configuration defined value,
@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ The
.Nm confstr
function conforms to
.St -p1003.2-92 .
.Sh BUGS
The standards require us to return 0 both on errors, and when the value
is not set.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm confstr

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lib/libc/gen/confstr.c
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
/* $NetBSD: confstr.c,v 1.11 2003/08/07 16:42:46 agc Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: confstr.c,v 1.12 2006/12/03 00:39:19 christos Exp $ */
/*-
* Copyright (c) 1993
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
#if 0
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)confstr.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93";
#else
__RCSID("$NetBSD: confstr.c,v 1.11 2003/08/07 16:42:46 agc Exp $");
__RCSID("$NetBSD: confstr.c,v 1.12 2006/12/03 00:39:19 christos Exp $");
#endif
#endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
@ -62,33 +62,37 @@ confstr(name, buf, len)
int mib[2], sverrno;
char *p;
/*
* POSIX 1003.2 requires errors to return 0 --
* that is *really* useful.
*/
switch (name) {
case _CS_PATH:
mib[0] = CTL_USER;
mib[1] = USER_CS_PATH;
if (sysctl(mib, 2, NULL, &tlen, NULL, 0) == -1)
return (size_t)-1;
return 0;
if (len != 0 && buf != NULL) {
if ((p = malloc(tlen)) == NULL)
return (size_t)-1;
return 0;
if (sysctl(mib, 2, p, &tlen, NULL, 0) == -1) {
sverrno = errno;
free(p);
errno = sverrno;
return (size_t)-1;
return 0;
}
/*
* POSIX 1003.2 requires partial return of
* the string -- that should be *real* useful.
* the string -- that is even more useful.
*/
(void)strncpy(buf, p, len - 1);
buf[len - 1] = '\0';
free(p);
}
return (tlen + 1);
return tlen + 1;
default:
errno = EINVAL;
return (0);
return 0;
}
/* NOTREACHED */
}