'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 19/10/11 11:11 did gyre and gimble: >> > We're quite happy to return bools on internal stuff. It's just when >> > dealing with client-site/public APIs that we stick to ints. >> > >> > So as this is an internal function, I think it's fine. > It's not about having a portable ABI, it's only about the convention > that errors are reported as negative integers. But if nobody else cares, > then I'm fine too with using bools. I'll admit, I've not really given it much thought personally, so I'll defer to your greater understanding here :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/