On Fri, 21 May 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > > 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).
Echo that here. There are few things more annoying than device drivers that fail for unknown reasons. Even if the error doesn't make sense at first, we can trace the code back to the true point of failure. If you've worked on Windows or Macs, you know what I'm talking about ("Device failure" or "Could not switch your connection due to an error"). Doug White Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message