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Message-ID: <au1yco5UZKYjbyh1@snips.stderr.spb.ru>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 09:23:46 +0300
From: Valery Ushakov <uwe@...err.spb.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Advisory for OpenSSH+musl users

On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 04:36:14 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> While POSIX made allowance for returning NULL, this does not match
> historic pre-existing behaviour on many systems, which at that point
> would have been the observed and possibly documented one.

https://man.netbsd.org/crypt.3#RETURN%20VALUES

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/4274e4c7005be6e9cde1ed8b5451592847d2287f

revision 1.23
date: 2012-01-02 03:18:51 +0400;  author: christos;  state: Exp;  lines: +42 -10;
Improve returns description from Solar Designer.

PS: Reminds me of a "daily quote" from Yosemite park director, as
posted on Yahoo! some 30 years ago: "My proiblems begin when the
smarter of my bears meet the dumber of my touirists" (quoting from
memory).

-uwe

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