linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/sparse: Clean up the obsolete code comment

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Message-ID: <20190320125843.GY19508@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 05:58:43 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        pasha.tatashin@...cle.com, mhocko@...e.com,
        rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, richard.weiyang@...il.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/sparse: Clean up the obsolete code comment

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 02:36:58PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> There are more than a thousand -EEXIST in the kernel, I really doubt all of
> them mean "File exists" ;-)

And yet that's what the user will see if it's ever printed with perror()
or similar.  We're pretty bad at choosing errnos; look how abused
ENOSPC is:

$ errno ENOSPC
ENOSPC 28 No space left on device

net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c:              return -ENOSPC;

... that's an authentication failure, not "I've run out of disc space".