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Dec. 3rd, 2003 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
venta...there will be a POSIX error code:
EGONEWRONG
For those cases where, like, I dunno, something just went wrong.
EGONEWRONG
For those cases where, like, I dunno, something just went wrong.
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Date: 2003-12-03 11:29 am (UTC)We don't seem to have it, no. But then we aren't POSIX compliant either. Though I might investigate why we don't have EUNKNOWN, it sounds useful.
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Date: 2003-12-03 02:15 pm (UTC)It's not defined by POSIX and Linux doesn't seem to have it. (I see that POSIX does define EOPNOTSUPP, though, which probably originates in some idiot not knowing about the existence of ENOTSUP. Since it's now enshrined in a standard as a distinct errno I don't suppose it will go away now :-()
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Date: 2003-12-04 03:31 am (UTC)That's just because of the rule that at least 50% of errnos must be specific to sockets and thus of no use to anyone else. Maybe they needed to make up the numbers.
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Date: 2003-12-05 12:25 pm (UTC)A Fine Plan
Re: A Fine Plan
Date: 2003-12-03 01:35 pm (UTC)It gets used a lot in our room, usually followed by Dan suggesting we start lobbying for the inclusion of EGONRONAY.
Re: A Fine Plan
Date: 2003-12-04 02:07 am (UTC)ENOCLUE - The user has done something so mind-numbingly stupid that I don't care what the spec implies should happen, I'm going to return failure because they deserve it.
And even spoiled the women's chats
Date: 2003-12-05 08:44 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/steer/78706.html