From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IV7Rb-0001L6-RL for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:14:28 -0700 Received: from smtp009.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.63]) by mail.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.44) id 1IV7RY-0008RB-5u for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:14:27 -0700 From: Blaisorblade Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:14:06 +0200 References: <46E016D8.4000803@theshore.net> <200709111601.03376.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20070911145852.GB7551@c2.user-mode-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20070911145852.GB7551@c2.user-mode-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200709111714.14572.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Subject: Re: [uml-devel] init_new_context_skas - new_mm failed, errno = -24 List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2111622175==" Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jeff Dike , "Christopher S. Aker" --===============2111622175== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1297535.0tQFuZB5pX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1297535.0tQFuZB5pX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On marted=EC 11 settembre 2007, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:00:58PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > errno =3D 24 means EMFILE (too many open files). > > Whoops, I mentally turned that into -ENOMEM. > > Maybe we should resurrect os_print_error as you suggested and start > using it. The current habit of using raw errnos dates from very > early, when perror (or strerror - I don't remember which) gave me > undebuggable segfaults deep inside libc. Probably, that's not a > problem any more. I surely agree. I also think I had introduced os_print_error and exactly fo= r=20 this purpose, even if I can't recall well. strerror() is not reentrant so it can't be used, but there is strerror_r. There is no strsignal_r (using strsignal(3) would clear messages as "Kernel= =20 mode signal 8"), but I'd suggest to follow the unrecommended but documented= =20 practice of using sys_siglist[signr]. =2D-=20 "Doh!" (cit.), I've made another mistake! Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --nextPart1297535.0tQFuZB5pX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBG5rDGqH9OHC+5NscRAohOAKCP98QYQ0mdRHFuoaMzzQTDSnAGsACeJJNr 6v4rank1YzT2XsZWF1YftGs= =Rwf+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1297535.0tQFuZB5pX-- --===============2111622175== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ --===============2111622175== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel --===============2111622175==--