From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 15:52:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D7E37B401 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 15:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA12143F85 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 15:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4DMp7iJ027798; Tue, 13 May 2003 18:51:07 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:51:06 -0400 To: Jordan Hubbard , hackers@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:52:07 -0000 At 1:57 AM -0700 5/13/03, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >... and "yeah, that's a pretty silly errno value and in rather >colloquial english at that, let's pick a more descriptive name >like ``EUSERERR'' or something which makes any code using it >more clear." I think it is fine to change the name, but EUSERERR is certainly not right. The bikeshed is then picking an appropriate name. EBADCOMMIT(ER) ESKIPDISASTER EAVERTWOE EAVOIDABYSS seem like some plausible names, given the description of the history behind the name, and what error is used for. I'm sure another hundred could be thought of after about 15 minutes with a thesaurus. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu