linux-kernel - Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP

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Message-ID: <20061207141542.GD31773@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:15:42 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Cc:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> writes:
> 
> > Can you please quote chapter and verse (in POSIX) where it states that
> > ENOTSUP and EOPNOTSUP have to be numerically distinct?
> 
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/errno.h.html>
> "Their values shall be unique except as noted below."
> (And there is no exception for ENOTSUP/EOPNOTSUP yet.)

Ah, but you're quoting from SuS, not POSIX.  (Yes, I'm splitting
hairs, but that's what standards are all about.  :-)

						- Ted
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