Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:05:28 +0200 From: clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On errno Message-ID: <6p45h6xbmp.ln2@nntp.spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> References: <49D1492C.5050101@freebsd.org> <200903310620.n2V6Kudd072936@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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On Tue-2009/03/31-08:20 Garrett Wollman wrote in gmane.os.freebsd.architechture (MID <200903310620.n2V6Kudd072936@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>): > [on strings accompanying errno] > > But all this is really irrelevant if no other operating system or > standard adopts the interface. Interfaces which are peculiar to > FreeBSD are rarely useful. plan9 already has that: programs return a string instead of a number. plan9port (user space implementation for unix) takes an empty string to mean SUCCESS and anything else as FAILURE. clemens
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