linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Define ENOAUTHSERVICE to indicate "Authentication service unavailable"

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Message-ID: <22934.1328745230@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:53:50 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	jmorris@...ei.org, keyrings@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Define ENOAUTHSERVICE to indicate "Authentication service unavailable"

On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:29:05 GMT, David Howells said:

> +#define	ENOAUTHSERVICE	139	/* Authentication service not available */
>
>  #define EHWPOISON	139	/* Memory page has hardware error */

Was this an intentional overload of 139 (and so on for other archs)?
Just checking - I'm sure if it goes in like this, we'll see a patch to "fix" the
collision for 3.16.0 or so... ;)

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