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Re: fifo, mmap, errors [better patch]


From: Greg Buchholz
Subject: Re: fifo, mmap, errors [better patch]
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:08:51 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Actually I am favoring returning EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENODEV.  The ENODEV
> behavior is specific POSIXism for mmap, while EOPNOTSUPP is the generic
> Hurd protocol for any RPC that a server doesn't support.  I'm already
> putting in the libc change to have mmap translate to ENODEV.
>
> > Are there any patch submission guidlines?  (i.e. do we update the
> > ChangeLog for every trivial change?
>
> Yes.  Follow the coding conventions you see, and make a good log entry for
> each and every change.  No change ever goes in without a log entry.

        Alright, here's a better patch with ChangeLog entries and with the
return values changed to EOPNOTSUPP.


Greg Buchholz

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