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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/25] eal: do not panic on alarm init
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:31:55 -0800
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:56:53 -0500
Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> wrote:

> +	if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) {
> +		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
> +		/* rte_eal_alarm_init sets rte_errno on failure. */
> +		errno = rte_errno;

Hmm. DPDK in general does not reset errno but instead uses error code
directly on return (best) or in some cases rte_errno