Re: [patch] sharing maximum errno symbol used in __syscall_return(i386)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 00:20:35 EST


Masatake YAMATO wrote:
Hi,

__syscall_return in unistd.h is maintained?

In the macro the value returned from system call is
compared with the maximum error number defined in a header file to know the call is successful or not. However, the maximum error number is hard-coded and is not updated.


And it's wrong, anyway. It has long been agreed that the maximum errno value, for any architecture, is 4095.

-hpa
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