linux-kernel - Re: SVr4/SVID/SUS IPC conformance

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Message-Id: <1187376971.2615.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:56:11 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Anton Arapov <aarapov@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SVr4/SVID/SUS IPC conformance


On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 19:18 +0200, Anton Arapov wrote:
> 
>   IPC code is good, EIDRM is justification of EINVAL. But neither SVr4 nor SVID \
> documents EIDRM.   Single Unix Specification mentions EINVAL but not EIDRM as a \
> possible failure for shmctl(), so the current kernel behavior is not merely \
> self-inconsistent but a flat violation of the spec. 

these specs tend to always allow additional error codes.


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