On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
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> > Or maybe we can restrict the value from -1 to 5 ?
>
>  That might be a good idea.  My recollection is that this
>  is what we tell users to input ... values between -1 and
>  some small positive integer.  So returning -EINVAL on an
>  input of -2 (for example) should be the least surprising
>  behaviour for users.

That sounds fine to me too - I was just trying to get close to the
original behaviour.

Paul
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