On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 22:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > No, the current MAX_ERRNO is probably not big enough if this scheme is > > successful, > > and I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be successful: I think this > > feature > > would be the biggest usability feature added to Linux system calls and to > > Linux > > system tooling in the last 10 years or so. > Don't be silly. It's a horrible idea. People would want to > internationalize the strings etc, and nobody would use the extended > versions anyway, since nobody uses raw system calls.
That's a good point, and think that least in the netlink case it'd be much better to say which attribute was the one that had an issue, and that has an obvious binary encoding rather than encoding that in a string. Perhaps that's something I can play with separately. johannes -- 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/
