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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] errstr(2)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:51:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40628185.4070308@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403250643.i2P6hROt060541@adat.davidashen.net>

David Tolpin wrote:

>Hi,
>
>is ERRMAX the 'official' limit on the length of the buffer filled by 
>errstr? 
>  
>

there is no official limit.  that's why you pass your
own limit to the kernel.  ERRMAX is what the kernel
is likely to keep around, but it's okay for user and kernel
to disagree.





  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25  6:51 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 [this message]
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
2004-03-25 12:57           ` lucio
2004-03-25 13:30           ` David Tolpin

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