Re: [PATCH] libsepol: use bool instead of int in validation functions

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 09:58:27AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> One last reason to not apply this patch: it makes the code less
> consistent, not more, since as you said, you don't convert all the
> functions to reduce the scope of the change. I'd rather keep it
> consistent.

I never claimed this patch would achieve more consistency. The
basic idea was just to make it explicit that these validation
functions are essentially boolean in nature: either the validation
succeeds ("true") or not ("false"). So using int seems wrong.

But I do get the point that it is cleaner to have all the
functions have the same return type. I consider it one of the
design errors of C language that it did not have boolean type
right from the beginning. It is what it is, though.

br,
KK