On 4 December 2009 c. 11:44:00 Vladimir Kirillov wrote:
> On 09:34 Fri 04 Dec, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > > The main problem with this code is that ENOTTY is the wrong errno
> > > to return. ENOTTY has a very specific meaning.
> >
> > It's hard to pick the right one. ESRCH seems close, but is for the
> > reverse situation (you're requesting info for a pid taht does not
> > exist). How about ECHILD?
>
> Maybe also ENOTCONN (as when no pid is available -- tunnel is not
> connected),
> or EPROCUNAVAIL/EPROGUNAVAIL (the name suits, but the intro(2)
> description doesn't).
Maybe do not return error at all, just zero?
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Vadim Zhukov
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