Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 06:42:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... Message-ID: <3EC0F632.8695C950@mindspring.com> References: <200305131125.h4DBPWr23993@lakes.dignus.com>
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Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Robert Klein <RoKlein@roklein.de> wrote: > I think Robert is "on to" something here... > > But - EGOOFUP isn't descriptive enough for the situation > Poul-Henning writes about... > > How about > > EKERNERR /* A programming error in the kernel */ > > Wouldn't that be descriptive of the situation without insulting > anyone? It appears in both the libc malloc code, and in the GEOM code under the bde subtree in the kernel, so it is not kernel specific for "programming errors"; by a ratio of 3:1, it's a user space programming error. Personally, I am partial to "EPROGERR"; it matches the error text, if it needs to change. It has the advantage of leaving it ambiguous whether we meant "programming", "programmer", or "program", too. -- Terry
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