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  3. November 2001

RE: IFS security documentation?

> > Stupid ?  Yes,   Emulates UNIX ? Yes
> > What more can I say.

> Yes, and for another example the inet_addr() API returns an
> unsigned int and indicates (unsuccessful) with a defined return
> value of -1. Takes a couple tries to catch on to it if you're new to
sockets.
> Why does it work that way? Because that's the way Unix does it.

Thankfully they left it as is - who knows how many hours I/others would have
wasted when porting Unix code to the AS/400 if they *had* tried to iron out
these funnies.


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