 results are binary identical to those provided by dcraw.</p>
    <p>If "-" is passed as outfile, the function will write to standard output
      (stdout).</p>
    <p>The function returns an integer number in accordance with the <a href="API-notes.html#errors">error
        code convention</a>: positive if any system call has returned an error,
      negative (from the <a href="API-datastruct.html#LibRaw_errors">LibRaw
        error list</a>) if there has been an error situation within LibRaw.</p>
    <p><