From: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Return value for "impossible" situations
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:13:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sdkd4m$4sr$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d6d8484-0a1e-129b-b6b9-a26980732745@petrovitsch.priv.at>
On 7/25/21 1:59 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> This value goes up to userspace (otherwise it makes no real sense to use
> errno-values).
Yes. I know that.
> That depends on the situation/sys-call/....
> You habe to choose the value (the list and short explanation is in `man
> errno`) which leads the userspace application and it's user in the best
> direction.
Yes. I've already reviewed the manpage and the kernel headers, and I
don't see anything that jumps out as appropriate for an unexpected
"logic" error.
Thus my question about a convention for this sort of situation.
> And no, you can't invent new values.
I know.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-25 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-25 18:07 Return value for "impossible" situations Ian Pilcher
2021-07-25 18:59 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2021-07-25 19:13 ` Ian Pilcher [this message]
2021-07-25 23:15 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-07-26 4:18 ` Ian Pilcher
2021-07-26 10:42 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2021-07-26 11:08 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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