on 10.11.2004 16:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following: > The way the handler advice you about syscalls failing is setting (and not > clearing as you were saying) the carry bit in eflags register (about ia32). > A sort of errno (if you see in a C-coder view) value is set in eax (or, > alternatively, edx) to show the reason of failing. There's no way to know > where error code is set; you can just verify pratically.
I was actually interested in the opposite situation - something is put into eax,edx, but carry bit is cleared. > You can find all these things on "Programmers handbook". Thank you for the great hint! "The FreeBSD Developer's Handbook" has all. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
