Re: [dev] [sbase] style

From: Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:47:45 +0000

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:35:04AM -0500, M Farkas-Dyck wrote:
> On 18/11/2014, Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org> wrote:
> > On a side note here, for a failing syscall or similar, I think the
> > idea is to check for < 0 rather than == -1. I am not opposed to the
> > latter except that is already used less frequently in sbase.
>
> On an edge note, it would be much saner for many syscalls and libc
> functions to return minus the error code rather than return -1 and set
> errno, and in the future suckless-dominated world we could do so. The
> OpenBSD kernel already often does so internally. To check < 0 rather
> than == -1 would ease transition.

Yes I've always wondered.
Received on Tue Nov 18 2014 - 17:47:45 CET