Returning a negative value for a boolean function seem to have the
undesired effect of returning true. Replace -1 by false in a
bool-returning function.

The diff of the .s file before and after the change (for x86_64):
3907c3907
<       movl    $1, %ebx
---
>       xorl    %ebx, %ebx

while if -1 is replaced by true, the diff is empty.

This issue was found by the following Coccinelle semantic patch:
<smpl>
@@
identifier f;
constant C;
typedef bool;
@@
bool f (...){
<+...
* return -C;
...+>
}
</smpl>

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.se...@gmail.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/util.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 49a5c6a..ce465b2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ bool find_process(const char *name)
 
        dir = opendir(procfs__mountpoint());
        if (!dir)
-               return -1;
+               return false;
 
        /* Walk through the directory. */
        while (ret && (d = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
-- 
2.1.0

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