On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> >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. > >> > >> >From errno.h: > >> > >> #ifdef KERNEL > >> /* pseudo-errors returned inside kernel to modify return to process */ > >> #define ERESTART (-1) /* restart syscall */ > >> #define EJUSTRETURN (-2) /* don't modify regs, just > >> return */ > >> #define ENOIOCTL (-3) /* ioctl not handled by this > >> layer */ > >> #endif > > > >They aren't real errnos, just signals to the kernel. > > Same as all other error codes in the kernel.
What I meant was that they are not real error conditions and as such will not be returned from the device probe methods so there isn't a problem. -- 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
