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DateTue, 20 Jun 2006 21:21:46 -0700
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [patch] sharing maximum errno symbol used in __syscall_return (i386)
Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> __syscall_return in unistd.h is maintained?
> 
> In the macro the value returned from system call is
> compared with the maximum error number defined in a header file 
> to know the call is successful or not. However, the maximum error number 
> is hard-coded and is not updated.
> 

And it's wrong, anyway.  It has long been agreed that the maximum errno 
value, for any architecture, is 4095.

	-hpa
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