On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:35:51AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well, ok, errno is supposed to be zero, but in the rare cases where it's
> not, what is intended?
>
> Assuming ESOMETHING is always positive, in userspace errno is
> positive, e.g. you test for errno == EBADF.
>
> In barebox however most assignments use
>
> errno = -ESOMETHING
>
> but there are also some tests and assignments without minus. barebox'
> perror expects a negative errno which is also different from POSIX'
> perror. strerror uses positive semantics in both barebox and POSIX.
Your tree is not up to date.
see:
commit 6188685091c58c9772b990cf0ca6ac522f97a9d0
Author: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun May 13 12:43:58 2012 +0200
Make errno a positive value
Normally errno contains a positive error value. A certain unnamed developer
mixed this up while implementing U-Boot-v2. Also, normally errno is never
set to zero by any library function. This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sascha
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