Re: scsh vs. time(), mktime(), and errno

[Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>]

>> Every system call that I'm aware of either has a special return value which
>> indicates whether it failed (which is usually -1), or modifies an argument
>> appropriately, or has some other kind of indication of failure ...
>
>One I'm aware of is the BSD getpriority(2) which returns a value which
>can legitimately be -1 on a successful return.

Wow, I should have remembered that.  I stand corrected.

But I still think my proposed redefinition of scheme_time will work. :-)