Re: Return value for "impossible" situations

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On 7/25/21 1:59 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
This value goes up to userspace (otherwise it makes no real sense to use
errno-values).

Yes.  I know that.

That depends on the situation/sys-call/....
You habe to choose the value (the list and short explanation is in `man
errno`) which leads the userspace application and it's user in the best
direction.

Yes.  I've already reviewed the manpage and the kernel headers, and I
don't see anything that jumps out as appropriate for an unexpected
"logic" error.

Thus my question about a convention for this sort of situation.

And no, you can't invent new values.

I know.

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