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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:28:00 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, glebius@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fix return code for pipe(2) syscall
Message-ID:  <20060127202800.GB1388@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <200601271724.k0RHOUat034301@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
References:  <20060127093602.GO83922@cell.sick.ru> <200601271724.k0RHOUat034301@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:24:30PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Garrett Wollman, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> It is perfectly permissible for every system call to fail with
> [ENOTADUCK] unless the first five bytes of the caller's address
> space contain the word "quack".

Ducks don't byte, they just nybble a lyttle.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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