On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:47:22 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote: > It's a pity that deliberately doing a "return ret;" when ret is zero is so > common. Someone explained to me that it was "done deliberately to express that > we were propagating the success from frob_whatever()". No no no! FWIW I pitched to Linus that we should have a err_t of some sort for int variables which must never be returned with value of 0. He wasn't impressed, but I still think it would be useful :)