Re: [Xen-devel] errno i xs_wire.h

I was talking with Rusty about this and apparently posix doesn't
actually standardise the numbers.

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:25 +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > playing with xenbus support in mini-os, I noticed that xs_wire.h
> > references errno constants such as EINVAL. Is the use of these
> > constants (which could be guest-OS specific)
> 
> Isn't the basic set of errno vals posix standardised?  So even if a guest OS 
> doesn't deal in errnos itself, it can just import the BSD errno.h or 
> similar...?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> > in the wire-protocol not 
> > problematic? Should xs_wire.h define its own set of constants to be
> > used instead?
> >
> > Jacob
> >
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