Re: About SUCCESS/FAILURE
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:34:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: About SUCCESS/FAILURE | ||
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> On 24 Dec 2014, at 17:22, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
>
> Hmm. This thread doesn't seem to mention it, but why must failure be
> negative? I understand the non-zero part but not negative. Aside from
> the fact we probably have code relying on it to be negative at this
> point is there some other reason?
Hey Levi,
I believe it's a convention among C APIs: 0 for success, negative for some error