On Sat Feb 27, 2021 at 9:13 PM EST, Al Viro wrote: > No to the ABI part; "on error it returns -E..., on success - 0 or a > non-negative number representing a file descriptor (zero also > possible, but unlikely)" is bloody awful as calling conventions go, > especially since the case when 0 happens to be a descriptor is not > going to get a lot of testing on the userland side. Hm, I was just trying to mimic the behavior of open(2). Do you have a better suggestion?
