On errno

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <49D115B9.7030501 at freebsd.org>, Tim Kientzle writes:

>This is the right direction:  Basically, add a new variable
>that augments errno instead of extending the possible values of
>errno.  One variation, though:  I would argue for another
>integer variable (errno_fine?) so that translations can be
>done in userland (instead of having to deal with I18N in
>the kernel) but the principle is still sound.

The probelm with an integer is that you cannot give details
like:
	"partition 3 overlaps bootcode"
without precreating the N^2 possible messages of that kind.

I'm very sympathetic to the I18N crowd, but I just don't see
a sensible solution apart from: "Live with it".

Poul-Henning

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