[PATCH v2.1 1/2][BZ #16274] Fix shm_open.

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Tue Dec 3 15:37:00 GMT 2013


On 12/03/2013 10:27 AM, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 10:09:15AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 12/03/2013 06:20 AM, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
>>>> Shouldn't this be s/0/-1/g? It's a real failure?
>>>
>>> It is failure as we passed EXIT_FAILURE to status, arguments to error are:
>>>
>>>  error (int status, int errnum, const char *format, ...)
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot the order of the arguments to this function.
>>
>> Let me rephrase my question more precisely.
>>
>> Should we instead use:
>>
>> error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "failed to create shared memory object: shm_open");
>>
>> Such that we print:
>>
>> "failed to create shared memory object: shm_open: `strerror(errno)'"
>>
> Possible but as existing checks pass 0 we should also convert them as
> separate patch.

Good point. I'm OK with the patch then.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 



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