Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: add EMAXERRNO

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Jun 15 2009 - 09:32:01 EST


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:30:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Some architectures want to flag error returns from a syscall based on
> the return value. The range from zero to -511 is for errors that
> we can return to user space, so add a #define for this to
> include/asm-generic/errno.h.

I thought we could return anything up to -4095.

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