The following reply was made to PR lib/35401; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/35401
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:08:08 +0100

 Thorsten Glaser wrote:
 >  >Since errno is not set, I think this isn't recognized as an error (even
 >  >with negative return value).  Could be naughty, couldn't it?
 >  
 >  According to (my) TFM, only -1 is an error.
 
 According to POSIX any negative return values indicates an error and that is
 what matters.
 
 -- 
 Christian