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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: haikuports-devs@ports.haiku-files.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Haiku host support and general configure issues
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:40:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B4D5FE.7050409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B40B5F.9070507@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> Another big issue that I mentionned earlier here is the widely used
>>> assumption that error codes are positive, which is not the case for
>>> BeOS and Haiku.
>>> Not fixing this will result in a dangerous binary.
>>
>> Thanks for the reminder. But that also reminds me, you wanted to 
>> supply a patch for that! :)
>
> Such a patch may be something ya'll have to maintain on your own.  
> This has been discussed a lot in the past and I'm concerned that it's 
> going to be too invasive.

We could define a qemu_errno() which returns errno converted to positive 
numbers.  While it will touch a lot of places, I don't think it can be 
considered invasive.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-09 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28 14:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Haiku host support and general configure issues Andreas Färber
2009-02-28 17:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " François Revol
2009-02-28 18:31   ` Andreas Färber
2009-02-28 19:01     ` [HaikuPorts-devs] " François Revol
2009-02-28 20:26     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-28 20:32       ` François Revol
2009-03-08 18:15     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-08 18:41       ` [HaikuPorts-devs] " François Revol
2009-03-09  8:40       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-03-09 14:14         ` François Revol
2009-03-09 14:33           ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-09 15:39             ` François Revol

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