On Fri, 21 May 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > #define PRIORITY_FAIL -1 > > > > > > It sounds like we can loads of haggling about the names there... The > > > last one is to take out the dependency on errno being greater than > > > zero. > > > > I would actually quite like to keep the possibility of returning an errno. > > It gives the possibility of returning an appropriate error if something > > strange happened (other than the hardware not being present). > > > How do you guarantuee that the errno is positive? Add an assert > somewhere, like checking whether ENXIO >= PRIORITY_FAIL?
They just are positive and have always been positive :-) Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so much code I don't even want to think about it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
