* Tony Luck <tony.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.l...@intel.com> wrote:
> >> But you return 0 == false for success and 1 == true for failure.
> >
> > Aaargh! -ETOOMUCHSHELLSCRIPTPROGRAMMING
> >
> > -Tony
>
> Options to fix this:
> 1) Just change the comments in the code.
> This seems like it would confuse people as I thing most people
> would expect the "true" return to mean the copy succeeded.
> 2) Reverse the return values.
> Better that option 1 - but doesn't leave scope to return a count
> if some future user does want to know where the copy failed.
> 3) Change the return type back from "bool" to "int"
> 0 == success, non-zero == fail (with option to put the non-copied
> byte count in later).
> 4) Something else
Please use the copy_*_user() memory copying API semantics, which are: return
negative code (-EFAULT) on error, 0 on success.
Don't return 1 and please don't use bools for any memory copy library
functionality.
Thanks,
Ingo
