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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Type of brk(2) return value
Message-ID: <567@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-May-84 18:23:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 13 18:23:11 1984
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Brk() used to return the old break value if it succeeded and -1 if it
failed, just like sbrk().  In system III, it was changed to return
either 0 or -1.  Apparently Berkeley made the same change, and simply
neglected to change the declaration on the manual page to int.
				Kenneth Almquist