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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:15:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061207141542.GD31773@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je7ix3bycr.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > Can you please quote chapter and verse (in POSIX) where it states that
> > ENOTSUP and EOPNOTSUP have to be numerically distinct?
> 
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/errno.h.html>
> "Their values shall be unique except as noted below."
> (And there is no exception for ENOTSUP/EOPNOTSUP yet.)

Ah, but you're quoting from SuS, not POSIX.  (Yes, I'm splitting
hairs, but that's what standards are all about.  :-)

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-07 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-06 13:51 Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 14:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-06 14:31   ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 15:17     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 20:10       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 21:11         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 22:34           ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-07 13:49     ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-07 13:59       ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-07 14:15         ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2006-12-07 14:30           ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-07 15:33             ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 15:16   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 15:25     ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 15:26       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 15:34         ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 15:35           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 16:14             ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 16:44               ` H. Peter Anvin

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