On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:46:01AM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: +> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:26:38AM +0000, Craig Rodrigues wrote: +> +> rodrigc 2005-11-09 02:26:38 UTC +> +> +> +> FreeBSD src repository +> +> +> +> Modified files: +> +> sys/kern vfs_mount.c +> +> Log: +> +> For nmount(), allow a text string error message to be propagated back +> +> to user-space if a parameter named "errmsg" is passed into the iovec. +> +> Used in conjunction with vfs_mount_error(), more useful error messages +> +> than errno can be passed back to userspace when mounting a filesystem +> +> fails. +> +> BTW. This is the 2nd (that I know of) place where passing errors as +> strings is implemented (the other one is GEOM). This would be cool at +> some point to implement general API for this, as it's much more useful +> than errno(2). Of course we need to consider things like localization, +> etc. then. IIRC phk@ was talking about this at BSDCan.
I should really read the whole thread before answering:) -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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