On Sun, 09.06.13 12:38, Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 10:03 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > > > Why would anyone write software that is incorrect enough the OS spits it back > > as EINVAL? > > One example is the btrfs ioctl() for reflink: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626497 You also check for EINVAL when testing for certain prctl() features at runtime. Or for testing whether /dev/kmsg supports reading. Or... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
