Re: [patch] sharing maximum errno symbol used in __syscall_return (i386)

[Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org>]

> > Hi,
> > 
> > __syscall_return in unistd.h is maintained?
> > 
> > In the macro the value returned from system call is
> > compared with the maximum error number defined in a header file 
> > to know the call is successful or not. However, the maximum error number 
> > is hard-coded and is not updated.
> > 
> 
> And it's wrong, anyway.  It has long been agreed that the maximum errno 
> value, for any architecture, is 4095.

So we should do just:


   #define GENERIC_ERRNO_MAX 4095

Here my patch is proved to be useful for maintaining __syscall_return:-P
 
Masatake YAMATO
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