On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Sage Weil <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012, Noah Watkins wrote:
>> On May 14, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
>> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Noah Watkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Return an error rather than a segfault if a client uses the interface
>> >> when unmounted. The Java bindings were explicitly enforcing the
>> >> mounted state, but this was overly complicated, uncommon, and better
>> >> handled with a simple exception that can be checked at libcephfs level.
>> > ...
>> >> +  if (!cmount->is_mounted())
>> >> +    return -EDOM;
>> >
>> > Noah, this is not really about your patch, as existing code already
>> > has return -EDOM, but... oh boy does the API abuse POSIX errors.
>> >
>> > "Numerical argument out of domain".
>>
>> :)  Yeh, i stared at errno.h for a while. Note that -EDOM is already
>> returned by mount() when it is already mounted.
>
> Given the small number of libcephfs users, let's not be afraid to change
> it to something better.
>

The easiest would be -EINVAL.

Yehuda
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