On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:36:26 -0500 Richard Yao <ryao at gentoo.org> wrote: > On 11/10/2012 03:12 PM, Eric Anholt wrote: > > Richard Yao <ryao at cs.stonybrook.edu> writes: > > > >> From: David Shao <davshao at gmail.com> > >> > >> Originally posted to Free Desktop bug #52549 by David Shao. > >> Resolves Gentoo Bug #433403. > >> Commit message by Richard Yao. > > > > Are you really unable to get the same errnos in your port of the > > kernel modules? Having mismatched errno returns from upstream is a > > great way to have obscure bugs on your port, given that our kernel > > guys like to look for alternative errnos to be able to distinguish > > failure modes from userland. > > > > I don't like the idea of this patch landing. > > I have added the FreeBSD x11 team alias to CC, which I probably should > have done in my original email. They are in a better position to > answer this than I am. > > At present, MySQL also does this. Changing that would require changes > to the userland of FreeBSD (and other BSDs). The FreeBSD x11 team is > in a position to do that. I am in the process of getting Gentoo's X11 > stack working on Gentoo FreeBSD, so I am interested in their answer > to your question as well. > > Before pushing the patch, I did a bit of googling and I too found that MySQL and LibreOffice does this, so it seemed okay to me. It's not terribly prolific because I think many cross-platform products do not use interfaces which return ETIME. It sounds like BSD though is the only remaining holdout, as Windows and OSX both seem to support ETIME.
