[haiku-development] Re: POSIX error code
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:26:09 +0200
Ingo Weinhold wrote:
>
> On 2008-05-21 at 01:05:51 [+0200], kaoutsis <kaoutsis@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> > > wrote:
> > > Anyway, it certainly doesn't harm to try, but I have little hope that
> > > this will have any effect. If the standard maintainers consider the
> > > request, they are in a dilemma. Undoing the Issue 6 error codes
> > > change means that all the applications that relied on it would become
> > > non-conforming.
> > >
> > >
> > I agree.
> > I had an idea how to tackle the problem, may be good, may be bad:
>
> The main problem is not binary compatibility. The problem is that the Be
> API requires that error codes be negative. E.g. create_sem() returns a
> non-negative value (the sem_id) when successful, a negative error code
> otherwise. A good deal of other functions/methods use the same strategy,
> and so does third party code. Making our error codes positive will break
> them all.
>
> Changing concerned API functions to return -1 and set errno would be an
> option, but that would be quite a bit of work and third party software
> would have to be changed as well. Personally I don't even find this
> option very appealing.
To be honest, I don't like that either. Checking error codes happens
virtually all over the place, at least in code I have written. That would
be a major pain to change. I don't find the errno thing more elegant
either, maybe I am missing something though.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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