Re: patch: use err, not errno

[James Morrison]

--- "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> James A Morrison <ja2morri@student.math.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> 
> > Ok, I've grep'd through the hurd source looking for instances of
> errno being
> > assigned directly.  These seem to be the places where setting
> errno isn't 
> > right.  
> 
> What's the reason for this?
> 

Roland had a good answer for this. I noticed it last week when I
tried to step through part of libnetfs, see last weeks patch.

> > I've also changed !var to var == MACH_PORT_NULL where appropriate
> 
> > because some documentation, mach.texi, says MACH_PORT_NULL is not
> assumed to
> > be 0 in the Hurd system.
> 
> This is always fine.
> 

 Yes, but I wanted to be consistant with the documentation.


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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone refering this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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