Re: [Qemu-devel] 9pfs-proxy: -retval vs errno vs -1

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> writes:

> Another interesting tidbit is in hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c.
>
> All filesystem methods use common v9fs_request() function,
> which returns -errno.  So far so good.
>
> Now, *all* places which call this function, does this:
>
>     retval = v9fs_request(...);
>     if (retval < 0) {
>         errno = -retval;
>     }
>     return retval;
>
> and *some* does this:
>
>     retval = v9fs_request(...);
>     if (retval < 0) {
>         errno = -retval;
>         retval = -1;
>     }
>     return retval;

We should be able to drop that retval = -1;

-aneesh