Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:48:42 -0800 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling |
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:27:44PM -0800, Scot McKinley wrote: > Finally, it is agreed that neg-errno is a much better approach for the > return code. The threading/concurrency issues associated w/ the current > unix errno has always been buggy area for Oracle Networking code.
As Scot knows, when Oracle started using the current io_submit(2) and io_getevents(2), -errno was a big win.
Joel
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