Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] selftests/ipc: change test to use ksft framework

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Fri Oct 03 2014 - 13:40:37 EST


On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 09:36 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> msgque.key = ftok(argv[0], 822155650);
> if (msgque.key == -1) {
> - printf("Can't make key\n");
> - return -errno;
> + printf("Can't make key: %d\n", -errno);

So printing a numeric value is quite useless when users actually run
into these errors -- which is why I like err() so much. How about using
strerror() instead?

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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