When I am dictator...

[venta]

...there will be a POSIX error code:

EGONEWRONG

For those cases where, like, I dunno, something just went wrong.

Comments

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

I think Windows already has the market on meaningless error codes...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I only want one meaningless error code. I've called a function, it failed, it didn't tell me why. Now I want to return failure, but I have to retun ESOMETHING, and none of them fit...

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Do we have an EUNKNOWN defined in our errno.h?

:)

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

I thought that was already a standard?

[venta.livejournal.com]

<checks>

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.

A Fine Plan

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

But isn't EGONEWRONG copyright zandev ?

Re: A Fine Plan

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is it? If so, apologies to Zandev for using it unattributed :)

It gets used a lot in our room, usually followed by Dan suggesting we start lobbying for the inclusion of EGONRONAY.

[pm215]

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 :-()

Re: A Fine Plan

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

AVE room culture is a little different. If I could have only one new ERRNO it would have to be:

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.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

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.

And even spoiled the women's chats

[steer.livejournal.com]

~~(__c>

http://www.livejournal.com/users/steer/78706.html

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

ENOTTY seems to be used by several people for this...