Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH v2] demo: cross-link: Properly handle ioctl error

[Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:41:27PM -0600, Michael Welling wrote:
> Update cross-link demo to properly report ioctl errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
> ---
> v2: Update all instances that incorrectly handle ioctl errors.
> 
>  demo/alchemy/cobalt/cross-link.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/demo/alchemy/cobalt/cross-link.c b/demo/alchemy/cobalt/cross-link.c
> index 8c0f53f..fa3cc91 100644
> --- a/demo/alchemy/cobalt/cross-link.c
> +++ b/demo/alchemy/cobalt/cross-link.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <signal.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
> +#include <errno.h>
>  #include <sys/mman.h>
>  #include <alchemy/task.h>
>  #include <alchemy/timer.h>
> @@ -199,6 +200,7 @@ static void read_task_proc(void *arg)
>  		/* waiting for event */
>  		err = ioctl(read_fd, RTSER_RTIOC_WAIT_EVENT, &rx_event);
>  		if (err) {
> +			err = -errno;
>  			printf(RTASK_PREFIX
>  			       "error on RTSER_RTIOC_WAIT_EVENT, %s\n",
>  			       strerror(-err));
> @@ -254,6 +256,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
>  	/* writing write-config */
>  	err = ioctl(write_fd, RTSER_RTIOC_SET_CONFIG, &write_config);
>  	if (err) {
> +		err = -errno;
>  		printf(MAIN_PREFIX "error while RTSER_RTIOC_SET_CONFIG, %s\n",
>  		       strerror(-err));
>  		goto error;
> @@ -273,6 +276,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
>  	/* writing read-config */
>  	err = ioctl(read_fd, RTSER_RTIOC_SET_CONFIG, &read_config);
>  	if (err) {
> +		err = -errno;
>  		printf(MAIN_PREFIX "error while ioctl, %s\n",
>  		       strerror(-err));
>  		goto error;

After I got an email about this patch offlist, I found even more issues with
error number handling.

Not only are the ioctl calls wrong but the read, open, and write calls are too.

Here comes v3.

> -- 
> 2.1.4
>