Re: [PATCH RFC v3 1/6] exterr: Introduce extended syscall error reporting

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 17:15 +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> 
> > It seems to me that current->ext_err_code needs to be cleared on 
> > each system call entry (except for your special prctl() of 
> > course!).
> 
> I'd say, it should be up to the program to decide for how long they 
> want to keep the extended error code around.
> 

I'm not convinced that works - imagine a library wanting to use the
prctl(), but the main application isn't doing that. Should the library
clear it before every call, to be sure it's not getting stale data?
etc.

johannes
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