On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 13:42 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 10/03/2014 11:39 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> Yes. using perror() does give better information. There are other
> places in this file that use errno. How about I make that a separate
> patch and catch all of them at once to use perror() as a follow-up
> change? That way I fix all at once without adding more changes to
> this patch.
Sounds good.
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