A modest proposal for better errno values...

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Wed May 14 01:00:46 PDT 2003


On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:55:14PM -0400, Michael Meltzer wrote:
>> #define EDOOFUS         88              /* Programming error */
>
>#define E370HSSV  88 /* Programming error */

You might get this one past the suits if you can come up with an
appropriate acronym (one that keeps their mind off reading it
.(umop 3p!sdn

My (non-tongue-in-cheek) suggestion is EASSERT - this is an assertion
failure that you don't want to abort()/panic() on.

Peter


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