> Not only Sun does, Linux does too (e.g. in various networking ioctls).
> I would just fix the man page.
Ach - more ugliness in Linux.
New man page fragment:
...
RETURN VALUE
Usually, on success zero is returned. A few ioctls use
the return value as an output parameter and return a non
negative value on success. On error, -1 is returned, and
errno is set appropriately.
...
Andries
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