Not sure if anyone answered this. This is just my opinion of course:

* The OS functions should use return type os_error_t.
* Those functions should return OS_OK or some other OS error.
* Checks against functions with type os_error_t should be against OS_OK and not 
0.

The bubbling up of errors, well, not sure. If some function not in the OS calls 
an os function which returns os_error_t does not need to use a return type of 
os_error_t; that can be int.


> On Apr 9, 2017, at 7:55 PM, Ben Harper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> While mucking about in the source I found a few places where the use of
> OS_OK was either returned and checked against a hardcoded zero, or the
> other way around, and some function signatures that give os_error_t or int
> and return the other. The documentation has similar disconnects in portions
> as to what the return type is, and some functions seem to bubble up the
> response code from underlying system calls and the type changes as it is
> returned.  I'd like to work through fixing these, but I'm not able to find
> a single source of truth as to which they should be. Is there currently any
> set guidance on this? Or would it be fine if I just made my best guesses
> and brought it together as a PR against the github repository?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give on the matter.
> - Ben Harper

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