On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 09:36 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > msgque.key = ftok(argv[0], 822155650); > if (msgque.key == -1) { > - printf("Can't make key\n"); > - return -errno; > + printf("Can't make key: %d\n", -errno);
So printing a numeric value is quite useless when users actually run into these errors -- which is why I like err() so much. How about using strerror() instead? Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/