https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32540
Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Mark Wielaard from comment #1)
> They are intentionally private implementation details. If the exact
> constants and names were public they would become part of the API and the
> exact error returned couldn't be changed anymore.
That doesn't follow. API functions can be documented to return a mixture of
fixed and varying pools of error codes. If any of the errors are such that a
library client could possibly take action to correct them, then they should be
machine readable error indications, not English text.
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