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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:44:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4576F368.4070804@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061206161405.GV3927@implementation.labri.fr>
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:35:49 -0800, a écrit :
>> Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>> The two can't be done at the same time. In fact, the two probably can't
>>>> be done without a period of quite a few *years* between them.
>>> Not a reason for not doing it ;)
>> No, but breakage is. There has to be a major benefit to justify the
>> cost, and you, at least, have not provided such a justification.
>
> Well, as I said, existing code like
>
> switch(errno) {
> case ENOTSUP:
> foo();
> break;
> case EOPNOTSUP:
> bar();
> break;
> }
>
That's pretty weak, though.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-06 16:45 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
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 [this message]
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