[openib-general] error return values from userspace calls
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Fri Aug 4 13:56:17 PDT 2006
Pete Wyckoff wrote:
> Maybe some of this is bugs. Any general consensus on what the
> official pattern should be? It would make coders' lives easier if
> there were a single error-reporting style.
We should have a single error-reporting style.
> The RDMA CM functions follow a different convention pretty
> consistently. They return negative errnos like -EINVAL on error.
> Except they do not interpret system call return values that show up
> in errno:
Michael or someone pointed this out to me a while ago. I just haven't had time
to correct this yet.
- Sean
More information about the general
mailing list