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SubjectRe: [patch] sharing maximum errno symbol used in __syscall_return (i386)
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> > 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.

So we should do just:


#define GENERIC_ERRNO_MAX 4095

Here my patch is proved to be useful for maintaining __syscall_return:-P

Masatake YAMATO
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