Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] 9pfs: fix qemu_mknodat() to always return -1 on error on macOS host

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:21:00 +0200
Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com> wrote:

> qemu_mknodat() is expected to behave according to its POSIX API, and
> therefore should always return exactly -1 on any error, and errno
> should be set for the actual error code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

>  hw/9pfs/9p-util-darwin.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-util-darwin.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-util-darwin.c
> index 63797e60cd..7364da394c 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/9p-util-darwin.c
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-util-darwin.c
> @@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ int qemu_mknodat(int dirfd, const char *filename, mode_t mode, dev_t dev)
>      }
>      if (!pthread_fchdir_np) {
>          error_report_once("pthread_fchdir_np() not available on this version of macOS");
> -        return -ENOTSUP;
> +        errno = ENOTSUP;
> +        return -1;
>      }
>      if (pthread_fchdir_np(dirfd) < 0) {
>          return -1;