A modest proposal for better errno values...

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed May 14 01:12:15 PDT 2003


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:00:38PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:55:14PM -0400, Michael Meltzer wrote:
> >> #define EDOOFUS         88              /* Programming error */
> >
> >#define E370HSSV  88 /* Programming error */
> 
> You might get this one past the suits if you can come up with an
> appropriate acronym (one that keeps their mind off reading it
> .(umop 3p!sdn
> 
> My (non-tongue-in-cheek) suggestion is EASSERT - this is an assertion
> failure that you don't want to abort()/panic() on.

#define EDONTPANIC 42 /* ... */

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