1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/match.c b/match.c
index ef9498599..1551ed574 100644
--- a/match.c
+++ b/match.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "includes.h"
-RCSID("$Id: match.c,v 1.5 2000/04/16 01:18:43 damien Exp $");
+RCSID("$Id: match.c,v 1.6 2000/06/07 09:55:44 djm Exp $");
 
 #include "ssh.h"
 
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ match_pattern(const char *s, const char *pattern)
 /*
  * Tries to match the host name (which must be in all lowercase) against the
  * comma-separated sequence of subpatterns (each possibly preceded by ! to
- * indicate negation).  Returns true if there is a positive match; zero
- * otherwise.
+ * indicate negation).  Returns -1 if negation matches, 1 if there is
+ * a positive match, 0 if there is no match at all.
  */
 
 int
@@ -127,15 +127,15 @@ match_hostname(const char *host, const char *pattern, unsigned int len)
                 /* Try to match the subpattern against the host name. */
                 if (match_pattern(host, sub)) {
                         if (negated)
-                                return 0;       /* Fail */
+                                return -1;              /* Negative */
                         else
-                                got_positive = 1;
+                                got_positive = 1;       /* Positive */
                 }
         }
 
         /*
          * Return success if got a positive match.  If there was a negative
-         * match, we have already returned zero and never get here.
+         * match, we have already returned -1 and never get here.
          */
         return got_positive;
 }