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Wiran, Francis wrote:
> Ok. I'll make a patch when the behaviour changes, as per Greg's:
> 
> 
>>Yeah, I don't really like it either, but figured it was a 2.7 task to
>>clean it up properly.
> 
> 
> At 2.6.1, it still returns count.

Look closer:
2.4 behavior:  returns count.

2.6 behavior:  returns negative value on error, or returns 1 when no
controllers found, or returns number of controllers found.

	Jeff