From: Björn Stenberg <bjorn_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:37:54 +0100

Mike Holden wrote:
> We sometimes return 0 for success,
> sometimes for error, but often use "if (somefunction())" type constructs,
> which can be misleading, since the value being tested may not follow the
> usual tradition of 0=true, anything else=false.

Maybe because it's actually the opposite. 0 == false, anything else == true. :-)

But I think you may indeed have found something. 'ret' should be initialized at the top of the loop, not at the bottom.

-- 
Björn

Received on 2003-03-13