From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Grant Subject: Re: aio_error query Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:37:15 +0000 Message-ID: <4F400BFB.5050409@jguk.org> References: <4F1B32A4.1010809@jguk.org> <4F3FA267.4000208@jguk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael Michael Kerrisk wrote, On 18/02/12 18:18: [...] >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/functions/xsh_chap02_03.html >> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/manpage?3+errno >> >>>> errno is an int, and the values I think are not >>>> guaranteed to be positive (like with glibc). I work on a system where >>>> they >>>> are all negative. > > What is the system? http://www.mpcdata.com/mediasdk/ [..] > What you say is now clearer to me, and sounds reasonable. Still, I'm > curious about this other system you are using; I think on every system > I encountered, error numbers are positive. Perhaps errno macros as positive numbers are a de facto convention. Regards, Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html