Re: Un-sucking EINVAL

From: Robert Clausecker <fuz_at_fuz.su>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 07:20:02 UTC
Am Wed, May 21, 2025 at 07:14:48PM +0000 schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp:
> > In short, I'd love to widen the interface, but there's a number of practical
> > issues in the way.
> 
> Not really ?
> 
> Our kernel is not I18N'ed and we have no plans to do so.
> 
> That means that there is absolutely no point in taking a big detour over
> enumerating all possible messages into some "int assistant_to_errno",
> we can and should simply pass the informative text-string straigt through.

So basically like Plan 9's errstr?

https://man2.aiju.de/2/errstr

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

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