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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: Add special error code for wrong for
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: Add special error code for wrong format |
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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:34:23 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> The block drivers normally return -errno for typical errors.
> There is no appropriate error code for "wrong format", so
> use a special error code which does not conflict with system
> error codes.
ENOTTY is used when something is of the wrong type. Since the name
"ENOTTY" is not clear, defining a new error code makes sense though.
Stefan