Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Wed Dec 06 2006 - 11:13:56 EST


H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:35:49 -0800, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >>The two can't be done at the same time. In fact, the two probably can't
> >>be done without a period of quite a few *years* between them.
> >
> >Not a reason for not doing it ;)
>
> No, but breakage is. There has to be a major benefit to justify the
> cost, and you, at least, have not provided such a justification.

Well, as I said, existing code like

switch(errno) {
case ENOTSUP:
foo();
break;
case EOPNOTSUP:
bar();
break;
}

Samuel
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