On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 13:42 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 10/03/2014 11:39 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 09:36 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > >> msgque.key = ftok(argv[0], 822155650); > >> if (msgque.key == -1) { > >> - printf("Can't make key\n"); > >> - return -errno; > >> + printf("Can't make key: %d\n", -errno); > > > > So printing a numeric value is quite useless when users actually run > > into these errors -- which is why I like err() so much. How about using > > strerror() instead? > > > > Yes. using perror() does give better information. There are other > places in this file that use errno. How about I make that a separate > patch and catch all of them at once to use perror() as a follow-up > change? That way I fix all at once without adding more changes to > this patch. Sounds good. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html