From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] errstr(2)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:52:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d02a062f561ff0711a63707cb49cb26@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403251239.i2PCd16P061964@adat.davidashen.net>
On Thu Mar 25 07:41:52 EST 2004, dvd@davidashen.net wrote:
> I can't learn to ask my questions right. I am sorry for that.
> My question was whether the code was right (in generrstr)
> or accidental.
In other words are we stupid or just incompetent?
We will always have some limit to error strings in the kernel though
it may not always be the current 128 bytes. You buffer len should be
more determined by how long an error string you might consider
useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-25 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-25 6:43 David Tolpin
2004-03-25 6:51 ` Russ Cox
2004-03-25 7:08 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-25 12:33 ` David Presotto
2004-03-25 12:39 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-25 12:52 ` David Presotto [this message]
2004-03-25 12:57 ` lucio
2004-03-25 13:30 ` David Tolpin
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