On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:53:39PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Aurelien Jarno dixit: > > >As the function is POSIX compliant, it looks like to me a documentation > >issue. Should this bug be reassigned to manpages-dev to mention the fact > >that the function might return NULL in case of error? > > The NULL-in-case-of-error mentioned by POSIX is when the > function is not implemented *at all*, i.e. all calls to > it would fail independent of the input (and then, you’d > have bigger problems).
This is *your* interpretation of POSIX. Quoting it, there is no ambiguity that crypt can return NULL for any failure (i.e. not successful completion): | Upon successful completion, crypt() shall return a pointer to the | encoded string. The first two bytes of the returned value shall be those | of the salt argument. Otherwise, it shall return a null pointer and set | errno to indicate the error. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
