On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:35:04AM -0500, M Farkas-Dyck wrote: > On 18/11/2014, Dimitris Papastamos <s...@2f30.org> wrote: > > On a side note here, for a failing syscall or similar, I think the > > idea is to check for < 0 rather than == -1. I am not opposed to the > > latter except that is already used less frequently in sbase. > > On an edge note, it would be much saner for many syscalls and libc > functions to return minus the error code rather than return -1 and set > errno, and in the future suckless-dominated world we could do so. The > OpenBSD kernel already often does so internally. To check < 0 rather > than == -1 would ease transition.
Yes I've always wondered.
