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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 17:39 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > Why do the damn things return 0 for error and 1 for success??? > Why don't they use negative error codes for failure, like > everything else in the kernel?!! > > I've tripped over this at least twice, and on each occasion spent a > considerable length of time trying to track down the problem. yeah, lets just flip the logic over, but combined with a rename so that we dont surprise not-yet-in-tree code [and documentation/books]. queue_work() -> add_work() or something like that. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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