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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxen-3.0 (libxc rewrite)

To: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxen-3.0 (libxc rewrite)
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:06:44 -0600
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Christian Limpach wrote:

I think it does what I expect.  And it seems to work for a lot of
libraries just fine.  By not using the global errno, you're preventing
people from using perror, warn, err and the likes.  Also some of the
interfaces in your library are slightly awkward because you're wasting
the return parameter to return the failure reason.
You're right. Some of the interfaces are a little awkward (especially the memory mapping ones). It seemed like a reasonable trade-off to make though.

Even if we don't use the global errno, I'm still wondering why you're
returning -errno and not errno?
Good question. I guess since we never returned > 0 it would be reasonable to return errno instead of -errno. -errno is the convention used in the Linux kernel. That's what I was modelling.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori

   christian





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