kern/79884: [PATCH] ng_echo(4) should use "error" from NG_FWD_ITEM_HOOK

[Julian Elischer]

The following reply was made to PR kern/79884; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <dunstan at freebsd.czest.pl>,
	Julian Elischer <julian at FreeBSD.org>, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/79884: [PATCH] ng_echo(4) should use "error" from NG_FWD_ITEM_HOOK
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:27:07 -0700

 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
 > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:12:29PM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
 > [...]
 > 
 >>NG_FWD_ITEM_HOOK prepends to "error" appropriate value if needed. Currently,
 >>"error" is not used after NG_FWD_ITEM_HOOK. ng_echo(4) should make use of
 >>it.
 >>
 > 
 > Julian changed the semantics in rev. 1.9 of ng_echo.c, without an obvious
 > reason.  Let's hear what was the reason, if there were any.  Julian?
 
 probably just a "braino" during editing, though I think there is a large
 possibility that it is not possible to get an error.
 certainly it should be ok to use the error value,
 
 > 
 > 
 > Cheers,