On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 01:59:58PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > So yeah I'm of the opinion that unless it's kernel(-ish?) code it should be > positive, and I can send a patch to clean up stuff that's not. > > I can be swayed by counterarguments if you have them. :) What speaks against everything is negative? It isn't like returning positive errors really is a traditional userspace convention, as that is return -1 (negative!) and look at errno..