Date: 13 May 2000 23:13:17 +0200 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Procedure for introducing new errno values? Message-ID: <5l8zxenogi.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Tue, 2 May 2000 21:19:38 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000502211509.19996O-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> What is the correct procedure for adding new errno values? Presumably
> errno.8, src/sys/errno.h, as well as presumably some other files (perhaps
> in libc) for defining the string version, et al?
I think src/sys/errno.h, src/lib/libc/gen/errlst.c, and
src/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 should be it.
> I've also noticed that there is an errno.h in both /usr/include and
> /usr/include/sys.
Isn't the one in /usr/include a symlink to sys/errno.h?
> I am proposing EEXTATTR ("Extended attribute not defined"), which would be
> returned when a consumer of the VOP_GETEXTATTR() call attempted to
> retrieve an undefined attribute name.
Sounds fine to me. Or perhaps ENOEXTATTR?
/assar
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