Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:37:58 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030513123207.02e95660@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <200305131125.h4DBPWr23993@lakes.dignus.com> References: <E371408A-8520-11D7-8900-000393BB9222@apple.com>
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At 07:25 13/05/2003 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>How about
>
> EKERNERR /* A programming error in the kernel */
>
>
>Wouldn't that be descriptive of the situation without insulting
>anyone?
If I understand the purpose of this error code, it deals with cases
where data is in an invalid state. In that case, why not make the error code
EASSERT /* An assertion has failed */
Colin Percival
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