On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:33:14PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> The current manpage says:
> 
> RETURN VALUE
>        On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1  is  returned,
>        and errno is set appropriately.
> 
> Adding: "except on ALSA where certain other return values are used"
> would be really ugly.
> 
> But you are right, Sun uses other return values with STREAMS ioctls.

Not only Sun does, Linux does too (e.g. in various networking ioctls) 
I would just fix the man page.


-Andi
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