Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

[Joel Becker]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:27:44PM -0800, Scot McKinley wrote:
> Finally, it is agreed that neg-errno is a much better approach for the 
> return code. The threading/concurrency issues associated w/ the current 
> unix errno has always been buggy area for Oracle Networking code.

	As Scot knows, when Oracle started using the current io_submit(2)
and io_getevents(2), -errno was a big win.

Joel

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