Re: TOCTOU bug in make(1)

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 12:46:06AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 > It also, unnecessarily, IMHO, decided to change the return type to
 > a more "modern" bool thus further obscuring the fact that the
 > function was a simple wrapper around unlink(2).

Can we revert that? Using bool for success/failure is ambiguous (does
true mean it succeeded or failed? both are reasonable) whereas 0/-1 or
zero/nonzero is a clearly established and well understood idiom.

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David A. Holland
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