30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
17:33
On Thursday 30 November 2006 05:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
In dos, negative numbers were used sometimes as the resturn code of functions (instead of the expected size) to indicate the error code. yup
... and which negative number depended upon which error... typically a non-zero return code is a failure... and the positive ints would be the size... so the negatives would be the rc values. I agree though with a previous post that it has to be something other than the int... like ok, why in the world would anyone want to use something other than an unsigned long... -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org