Error checking for g_mod_event() and friends

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040127160001.N92925 at pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:
>On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <20040127154303.E92925 at pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>, Lukas Ertl writes:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >is there a specific reason that the .init function of a class is declared
>> >to return "void"?  I'd like to change that to an int, so we could do error
>> >checking, and subsequently modify g_load_class() to check for errors and
>> >so on.
>>
>> In what circumstances would class->init() fail ?
>
>In the geom_vinum case I allocate the "main" vinum geom in the init
>method, and this might fail.
>
>(Of course, this might not be the correct way to do it, but I couldn't
>think of another way.)

You're right, it isn't :-)

You should never allocate anything until you first time taste a disk
which looks like yours.

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