From: Jacob Moody <jsmoody@iastate.edu>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] thread(2) procexec
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:32:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+gzr0+C4REauq9uJUVW8=xxLu7K_=v7a6nd1R0=8Wfby7SySg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F945AC5132AF650627E2278F6B483C2E@musolino.id.au>
That looks better, probably best to document that they do return on error.
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:40 PM Alex Musolino <alex@musolino.id.au> wrote:
>
> I think the following would be better, as it more closely resembles
> the DIAGNOSTICS section from exec(2).
>
> diff -r 3e677a96125d sys/man/2/thread
> --- a/sys/man/2/thread Tue Dec 10 15:13:44 2019 +1030
> +++ b/sys/man/2/thread Thu Dec 19 15:07:34 2019 +1030
> @@ -332,7 +332,8 @@
> on success,
> they replace the calling thread (which must be the only thread in its proc)
> and invoke the external program, never returning.
> -On error, they return \-1.
> +On error, they return and set
> +.IR errstr .
> If
> .I cpid
> is not null, the pid of the invoked program
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alex Musolino
--
Jacob Moody
ISEAGE
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2019-12-18 20:34 Jacob Moody
2019-12-19 4:39 ` Alex Musolino
2019-12-19 6:32 ` Jacob Moody [this message]
2019-12-19 6:45 ` Alex Musolino
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