Re: Complaint about return code convention in queue_work() etc.

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Stern wrote:
> I'd like to lodge a bitter complaint about the return codes used by 
> queue_work() and related functions:
>
> 	Why do the damn things return 0 for error and 1 for success???
> 	Why don't they use negative error codes for failure, like 
> 	everything else in the kernel?!!

It's a standard programming idiom:  return false (0) for failure, true 
(non-zero) for success.  Boolean.

Certainly the kernel often uses the -errno convention, but it's not a rule.

	Jeff



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