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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
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Subject: error return by RTM_GET
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<<On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:38:24 -0800 (PST), Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> said:

> The error message is kind of misleading, i wonder if we can
> replace the return value in sys/net/rtsock.c with
> ENOMSG /* No message of desired type */ ?

I think at one point it was returning ENOENT.  There are no good error
messages for this purpose; programs should do a better job of
interpreting the error numbers that we have.

If you want to propose a fix to route(8) I won't object.

-GAWollman



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