Re:Sshole
by bawolff on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:49PM
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i'd say it is more a consequence of not having exceptions or other way of being explicit about error values.
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That was a contributing factor, but there are plenty of other instances of C APIs that make use of in-band signaling like this. That the API was changed from returning one in-band signal to another is because the original value was causing programs to crash unpredictably due to UB.