Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Haiku host support and general configure issues

[Avi Kivity]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > Another big issue that I mentionned earlier here is the widely used
> > > assumption that error codes are positive, which is not the case for
> > > BeOS and Haiku.
> > > Not fixing this will result in a dangerous binary.
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder. But that also reminds me, you wanted to 
> > supply a patch for that! :)
>
> Such a patch may be something ya'll have to maintain on your own.  
> This has been discussed a lot in the past and I'm concerned that it's 
> going to be too invasive.

We could define a qemu_errno() which returns errno converted to positive 
numbers.  While it will touch a lot of places, I don't think it can be 
considered invasive.

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