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.
