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Return_Value

   0                  Successful completion.
   -1                 Indicates an error. errno is set to one of the
                      following:

                      o  EBADF - The file descriptor parameter
                         contains an invalid value.

                      o  EIO - An I/O error occurred while reading
                         the device.

                      o  EINTR - A signal was intercepted during
                         execution of the function.

                      o  EOVERFLOW - One of the values to be
                         returned cannot be represented correctly
                         in the structure pointed to by buffer.