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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Re: Error reporting capabilities for libxc
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:47:08 +0200
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I know it's a bigger patch, but the Right Thing to do here is to just
> propagate an error code through the libxc functions.

That doesn't allow a descriptive text message, which is often quite
useful to figure what went wrong in detail.  error codes such as errno
== EINVAL are not very helpful for trouble shooting ...

What number space we are talking about btw?  errno?  something else?

cheers,
  Gerd

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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
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