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		oconnor663 on April 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When hiring developers, have the candidate read ex... Huh. My first answer was "I don't know", and then I googled it and apparently it's implementation defined. So...my first answer was correct? :)

jra_samba on April 16, 2022 [–]

True, it's implementation defined. But almost all implementations choose one of the two options. There is a reason for this.

FYI. I introduced a (bad) security bug into Samba a long time ago by expecting the wrong return (i.e. the one the implementations never return :-).

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