Hi,
On 07-08-17 16:16, Michael Thayer wrote:
Hello Hans and Knut,
Would a new ioctl to query the last IPRT code for an open session be an
option in case the caller does need the extra information?
Thank you for the suggestion, but IMHO that is worse (uglier) then returning
the vbox status error codes as positive values.
Knut, I hope that my last 2 mails may have convinced you to re-consider
moving to standard errno returns only. But if I've failed to convince
you then please let me know, then I can drop these patches from my
ongoing work and just keep the positive return value is a vbox status code
thing for the upstream submission.
Thanks & Regards,
Hans
Regards
Michael
06.08.2017 22:08, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote:
Hi Hans,
I'm with you on this not being entirely optimal. However 'man ioctl'
(http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl.2.html) documents it as sane
behavior. So why change working code?
As I mentioned, the ideal fix would be to pass the VBox status code back
separately in the request buffer, making the fix cross platform rather
than linux specific. But that's a lot of work.
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