From: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> ENOSYS is the mechanism used by user code to detect whether the running kernel implements a given system call. It should not be returned by anything except an unimplemented system call.
Unfortunately, it is rather frequently used in the kernel to indicate that various new functions of existing system calls are not implemented. This should be discouraged. Improve the comment in errno.h to help clarify ENOSYS's purpose. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> --- Changes from v1: - Fix changelog typo. - Further improve the comment. include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h index 1e1ea6e6e7a5..88e0914cf2d9 100644 --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h @@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ #define EDEADLK 35 /* Resource deadlock would occur */ #define ENAMETOOLONG 36 /* File name too long */ #define ENOLCK 37 /* No record locks available */ -#define ENOSYS 38 /* Function not implemented */ + +/* + * This error code is special: arch syscall entry code will return + * -ENOSYS if users try to call a syscall that doesn't exist. To keep + * failures of syscalls that really do exist distinguishable from + * failures due to attempts to use a nonexistent syscall, syscall + * implementations should refrain from returning -ENOSYS. + */ +#define ENOSYS 38 /* Invalid system call number */ + #define ENOTEMPTY 39 /* Directory not empty */ #define ELOOP 40 /* Too many symbolic links encountered */ #define EWOULDBLOCK EAGAIN /* Operation would block */ -- 2.3.0 -- 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/
