Re: [PATCH for-4.6 2/3] libxl/psr: use Xen error codes when checking hypercall return values

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 07:14 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> > > > On 21.07.15 at 14:47, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 13:40 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.6 2/3] 
> > > libxl/psr: 
> > > use Xen error codes when checking hypercall return values"):
> > > > EBADSLT isn't the only example here.  I believe ENODATA is a 
> > > > similar
> > > > example.
> > > 
> > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/errno.h.
> > > html 
> > > 
> > > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/errno.h?rev=1.40&
> > > cont 
> > > ent-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN
> > > 
> > > But
> > > 
> > > http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/errno.h 
> > > 
> > > How annoying.
> > 
> > THat's just a FreeBSD bug then?
> 
> Why? The OpenGroup page above clearly says that the two so
> far identified values are an extension.

I didn't realise that was what the XSR tag meant, sorry.

I note that OB is obsolete too FWIW...

I suppose it could be worse than "POSIX plus a couple of grandfathered
in exceptions (sorry)"...

Ian.