Re: [PATCH] errno: add numbers to the errno-names

[Wolfram Sang <w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>]

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On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 04:34:52PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Hello Wolfram,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Kernel logs often print errnos as '%d', so having the numbers next to the
> > defined names in the man-page is convenient to find out what went wrong.
> > Also move the indentation from 16 to 21 to make the numbers fit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
> > ---
> >
> > The errorcodes were inserted by a little awk-script which parsed the numbers
> > directly out of the Kernel include-files.
> 
> Which Kernel include files? As I recall there is some variation in
> errno codes across architectures.

Yes, true. Alpha has a custom one :( Pity!

Thanks for the pointer,

   Wolfram

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