Re: [nft PATCH] src: use reentrant getprotobyname_r()/getprotobynumber_r()/getservbyport_r()

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 2023-08-10 14:30, Thomas Haller wrote:
> 
>+bool nft_getprotobyname(const char *name, uint8_t *out_proto);

Knowing that proto can only be uint8, why not make this work like
getc() where the return type is a type with a larger range?

int nft_getprotobyname(const char *name)
{
    workworkwork();
    if (error)
	return -1;
    return workresult;
}