From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.6 2/3] libxl/psr: use Xen error codes
 when checking hypercall return values
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:30:03 +0100
Message-ID: <1437485403.8383.21.camel@citrix.com>
References: <1437404102-7807-1-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com>
	<1437404102-7807-3-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com>
	<21934.10720.172223.582437@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
	<21934.11949.408734.564467@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
	<55AE307D.5080307@citrix.com>
	<21934.15792.670281.338109@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
	<1437482822.6323.8.camel@citrix.com>
	<55AE61B90200007800093A8D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org>
Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135])
	by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72)
	(envelope-from <prvs=637454ca5=Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>)
	id 1ZHXcZ-0004QD-It
	for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:30:11 +0000
In-Reply-To: <55AE61B90200007800093A8D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
List-Help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=subscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

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.