[RFC] Saving the latest errno from syscalls.

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Thu Mar 11 22:55:37 UTC 2010


On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote:

> While I was debugging syscalls, I found a very useful field in struct 
> thread, td_errno.  It seems it was added for dtrace but it is only 
> populated on amd64 and i386.  Is the attached patch acceptable for 
> maintainers of other platforms?

Isn't it better to do it in cpu_set_syscall_retval()?
That way you catch all cases, plus you can save the
translated error as well...

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com





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