On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:00:22 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On S�nnavend 29 Januar 2005 02:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > The errno values which are visible for userspace are actually in the range
> > -1 - -129, not until -128 (): this value was added:
> >
> > #define       EKEYREJECTED    129     /* Key was rejected by service */
> >
> > And this would break ucLibc (for what I heard).
> >
> > This is just a quick-fix, because putting a macro inside errno.h instead of
> > having it copied in two places would be probably nicer.
> 
> Yes. Note that your patch only fixes the bug on i386. The code has been
> copied to many other architectures, and some of them have been updated
> less recently and are checking for values lower than 128. There should
> really be a way to keep them all in sync.


what about something along?

#define EKEYNEXT    130     /* key counter */

and 

 if ((unsigned long)(res) >= (unsigned long)(-EKEYNEXT)) {

JL
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