Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:18:40 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour Message-ID: <XFMail.981215111840.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <98Dec15.081550est.40374@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On 14-Dec-98 Peter Jeremy wrote: > I also consider this behaviour to be a bug. Unfortunately, the Unix > system call semantics don't provide any mechanism to report why a read > or write terminated early. Actually, general bitch time, they don't provide ANY sort of extended error information which sucks.. errno is fine until you get a function which overloads a single errno value with lots of meanings :( Hmm.. maybe 'errno_callspec' ;) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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