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Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/newgrp


From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:16:16 +0100

Matthew Dillon wrote:
:liamfoy 2004/12/08 14:00:32 PST
:
:DragonFly src repository
:
: Modified files:
: usr.bin/newgrp newgrp.c : Log:
: - Check the return value of setenv(). We should check this value since
: setenv() uses both malloc and realloc.
: : Revision Changes Path
: 1.2 +9 -3 src/usr.bin/newgrp/newgrp.c



That's fine, though the typical way of checking the return value is to check for it < 0 rather then exactly equal to
-1. Both are correct, but < 0 is used the most often in the code
base and considered easier to read.


-Matt
Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Is it? I always found == -1 to be rather straightforward, and considering (according to SUSv3) that setenv _must_ return only 0 or -1, I see no point to check for any other value. If setenv were to return anything else on failure, and you would need to check what the error was, I could understand this. But errno is set when setenv errors, and returns -1, so I'm stumped as to why checking for < 0 is considered to be easier to read, since it seems more like an obfuscation to what the case actually can be in reality.


Kind regards,

Devon H. O'Dell



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